Between late 2018 and 2019, three migrant children died of the flu while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody: sixteen-year-old Carlos Vásquez, eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo, and two-year-old Wilmer Vásquez. In December 2019, a group of doctors CBP's refusal to allow vaccines for such children were arrested outside the agency's California headquarters. Now, as the coronavirus pandemic roars on and threatens to compound this winter’s flu season, doctors are once again sounding the alarm. To discuss, Jim Braude was joined by Dr. Mario Mendoza, a physician and the founder of the non-profit Life-Undocumented, who was one of the doctors arrested last year at the protest and who came to the United States as an undocumented child; and filmmaker Beth Murphy, who just made a short film about Mendoza's efforts. Murphy is executive producer for GBH's The GroundTruth Project and founder of Principle Pictures.
