On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, factory workers in Ciudad Juarez are protesting to demand the closure of assembly plants along the US-Mexico border. Many are still open despite the growing coronavirus death toll among the workers.
We're also discussing the US government's first $349 billion small business loan program and find out why publicly traded companies got loans, while thousands of small businesses were left out.
Guests:
David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect and author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
Alfredo Corchado, Mexico City Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News and author of Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, & the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
Web Resources:
The Dallas Morning News, Alfredo Corchado and Valeria Olivares: El Paso cracks down; Juarez and AMLO worry many about attitude toward coronavirus
The Dallas Morning News, Alfredo Corchado and Valeria Olivares: On the border, factory workers die and their families worry that U.S. companies aren’t doing enough
The American Prospect, David Dayen: Unsanitized: The Fight to Learn Who the Fed Will Bail Out