International relations specialist Professor Robert Patman is warning the Migrant Caravan travelling through Mexico is producing significant tension in the United States.

Thousands of people fleeing violence and poverty in Central American nations are moving en masse in search of a better life in the US.

In the first episode of the ODT's new fortnightly international affairs programme, Global Insight, Professor Patman spells out those tensions.

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