The immigration debate

This summer, President Obama has lobbied Congress to enact immigration reforms, with the hope of reducing illegal immigration and streamlining the process through which people move to the United States. Much of the discussion has centered around children immigrating to the US from Central and South America, who often come unaccompanied with the hope that their families will be able to join them at a later date. This week on Global Journalist, we look at the issue of immigration, the current discourse surrounding it, and what could happen next.

Our guests:

• Victor Manjarrez, the head of the Unidentified Alien Children project for and the Associate Director of the National Center for Border Security and Immigration at the University of Texas in El Paso
• Ana Christina da Silva Iddings, an Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture—Early Childhood at the University of Arizona
• Christina Sisk, associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Houston