Family Reunification Updates; Representing Separated Children; Helping with Homecoming; The History Behind the Border Crisis

Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC's Urban Policy reporter, guest hosts for Brian today. Coming up on the show:

• Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, provides an update to her reporting on efforts to reunify families.
• Lenni Benson, professor of immigration law at the New York Law School and director of their Safe Passage Project, works with volunteer attorneys and students to provide representation of unaccompanied minors in the immigration process, and Alexandra Rizio, senior staff attorney at Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit organization that provides free lawyers to poor immigrant children in the NYC-area, talk about the legal hurdles to reuniting separated children in the New York area with their parents.
• Julie Collazo, writer and the mom behind the idea for what evolved into Immigrant Families Together, and Meghan Finn, discuss their work to reunite families separated at the border.
• Michelle García, journalist and writer, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, Stanley J. Bernstein assistant professor of American Studies & Ethnic Studies at Brown University and author of the forthcoming book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press, September 2018), discuss the history behind the current crisis at the border.