'BradCast' 4/1/2019 (Guest: Immigration policy expert Theresa Cardinal Brown)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Donald Trump has threatened to shut down the border with Mexico entirely, and announced he is ending foreign aid programs to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in Central America. Meanwhile, an actual humanitarian crisis is gripping a number of US towns along the Mexico border due to an unprecedented wave of migrant families with children fleeing strife in Central America, who are overwhelming US detention facilities and shelters that were not designed for them. THERESA CARDINAL BROWN, Director of Immigration and Cross-border Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, explains what is and isn't happening at the border right now, how Trump's policies are affecting it, and what Congress needs to do to ease the humanitarian crisis growing by the day. Brown details the impacts of Trump's threat to cut off of foreign aid (which would likely serve to make the problem worse), the disastrous economic impacts if Trump follows through on his threat to close the Mexican border, whether Trump's wall would help, and the long term actions and policies that Congress should focus on to address the situation in the near- and long-term.\xa0 Also today: a federal judge in Alaska has struck down Trump Administration's reversal of Obama-era ban on offshore drilling in the Arctic and parts of the Atlantic Ocean.\xa0 It's at least the fourth setback over the past two weeks for Trump environmental policy. Callers weigh in on all of the above, and share their thoughts on the 2020 presidential campaign, and more...