Lisa Desjardins:
To underscore just how seriously national leaders view the latest surge at the border, President Biden spoke to Mexico's president today about the urgent need for more enforcement. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will head to Mexico in the coming days.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is also urging the president to take executive actions to stem the tide of migration, even as senators continue negotiations on a broader deal to fix an immigration system seen by many as broken or at least at its limits.
To lay out how that system works and does not work, I'm joined by Doris Meissner of the Migration Policy Institute. She is a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Ruth Wasem, a senior fellow at Cleveland State University and a longtime congressional researcher on immigration.
Doris, I want to start, first of all, explaining the push factor. How do you see this moment right now in world migration?
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