Allegra Love :"We Are Past The Tipping Point"

America Speaks Podcast

Have we come to a place where we are numb? Numb from the onslaught of one unthinkable act after the other ? This may be true because we have lost our appetite for taking in any more bad news since Trump. Are we unable to find compassion these days? We must never close our hearts to children who are suffering. We have a responsibility to the children who are undergoing unimaginable consequences because their families have fled the violence in Central America risking everything to find safety for their children...these families have no other choice but to get their kids out of harms way but six children have died in our custody. Six children who came here to escape death.

We are paying tribute to these six lives a well as to all the children who are in our custody in this episode today on America Speaks. Immigration attorney Allegra Love is joining us again to reflect on what she is seeing on the Texas and new Mexican border, and brings clarity the brutal circumstances these families are enduring as they wait for their asylum application to be processed.