Let’s Talk New Mexico 5/27 8am: Asylum seekers who arrive in the U.S. are often fleeing violence at the hands of police or gangs in their home countries. However, once they arrive in our country, they continue to face the threat of violence, including while in detention. A lawsuit recently filed against a private detention center here in New Mexico claims guards sprayed asylum seekers with a chemical agent to stop a peaceful hunger strike protesting living conditions in the facility. International law says states must protect asylum seekers and refugees, not harm them. On this week’s Let’s Talk New Mexico, we will be talking about this lawsuit against CoreCivic in Torrance County, and what these private detention centers mean for New Mexico. We will talk with an immigration lawyer working on this case, an activist pushing to end private prisons in New Mexico, and a historian about how immigrant and asylum seeker detention became increasingly violent over the years. We will also hear from women working at Mexico’s borders to provide aid to people trying to get to the U.S. and those who have been deported back to Mexico and Central America.