Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Culture of crime and corruption within Customs and Border Protection
Vice President Mike Pence recently visited a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas, where dozens of migrants were crammed into tight quarters. The visit raised questions about U.S.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readVice President Mike Pence recently visited a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas, where dozens of migrants were crammed into tight quarters. The visit raised questions about U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and a nearly two-decade culture of corruption as the agency has strayed from its original post-9/11 mission.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Garrett Graff
author of “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb”
The full episode
2 of 5With Libra, Facebook wants to create its own money. Lawmakers are skeptical- 0:00Chaos and confusion as immigration officers get trained on new asylum rule
- 11:47Culture of crime and corruption within Customs and Border ProtectionYou’re reading this
- 21:38Can Facebook launch its cryptocurrency without support of lawmakers?
- 30:58Network TV news is still more popular than cable news
- 42:38Area 51 and the plan to find out what the government knows about aliens