Boston Immigration Officials Will Be Sent To The Mexican Border

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services notified local immigration attorneys that asylum officers from Boston will be sent to the southwest border with Mexico to address the influx of asylum seekers there.

It's a move Boston immigration attorneys say will impact their clients' chances of asylum.

Shannon Dooling, WBUR reporter. She tweets @sdooling.

Nancy Gertner, retired federal judge, senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, WBUR legal analyst. She tweets @ngertner.