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Is Trump’s immigration policy an effective deterrent?

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - 12:00am

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The vast majority of unaccompanied minors taken into custody at the US-Mexico border this year came from the same Central American country: Guatemala. Guatemala’s former Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera tells host Marco Werman that in the long run, a policy of family separation is unlikely to deter those Guatemalans intent on trying to unite with their relatives on US soil.