Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
A segment of the border wall in Arizona.
A record surge of migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border has pushed politicians on both sides of the aisle to look for ways to ease pressure on what many consider to be an overloaded, out-of-date, and needlessly bureaucratic immigration system.
Yet, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Molly O’Toole says the focus of negotiations misses the mark when it comes to finding real solutions to the current crisis at the border.
“We first need to understand who is coming, why they are coming, and where they are coming from,” she explains, adding that the demographics of the migrants crossing into the United States over the southern border has changed dramatically since the 1990s, but the proposed solutions have not.
In the latest episode of On My Mind, O’Toole outlines what she thinks is missing from the country’s current immigration debate.
Guests
- Molly O'Toole Author and former immigration and security reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She was awarded the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting in 2020 with the staff of This American Life for the “Out Crowd,” investigating the personal impact of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum officers and asylum seekers.
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