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Media Roundtable: The One-Year Anniversary Of The El Paso Walmart Mass Shooting

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we're discussing the 1st anniversary of the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a white supremacist shooter killed 23 Mexicans and Mexican Americans. A dozen were injured.

Guest:

Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News and author of Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration

Web Resources:

The Dallas Morning News: Biden says border wall construction will stop if he’s elected president

The Dallas Morning News: ‘Every day is a struggle’: El Paso, one year later

The Texas Tribune: El Pasoans remember victims of the Walmart shooting one year later

The New York Times: After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared

 

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.