christopher balding speaking to us from from fulbright university thank you christopher zimbabwe has more than doubled the price of fuel overnight but the move has failed to ease the nationwide petrol and diesel shortage drivers have been queuing outside petrol stations in some cases for several days the fuel shortages began in october in a nation that suffered a severe economic downturn in recent years with effect from midnight tonight if you were pump price of crude oil was eleven says who does that and three dollars fifty one says really for patrol will come into effect these premises greeted on the ruling surgery of one to one between the boned north of the united states do not. dare a is assistant professor of political science that has to college in massachusetts she says and bob as economic crisis has been years in the making. everyone thinks that the economic downturn is recent i think you mentioned october but things started going badly. as the last july last january and things have kind of west and since then the fewer should it is a particularly alarming rate now with peop

fulbright to think about immigration and border's in another context. host: and what year did you graduate from american and how close was bad to the 2008 entrance into border patrol? guest: so, i graduated american universityn 2008, and i started border patrol shortly thereafter i had actually begun the application process while i was at american university. i think i signed up for the accelerated sign-up process because i knew i would be going back to arizona and if you are close to like a southwest border say should you can accelerate the application by showing up these interviews and so yeah, i think there was six months that they were reviewing my application before i was finally accepted and so it was a quick turnaround. host: i'm looking at an article that comes from something called splendor news.com. and the headline is from middle of february, ex- border patrol cop has become a media darling and an immigration activists are furious. what is that all about? it's about, you know, your time in austin promoting this book and these are bunch of people on the left end of the suspicion was when he wrote the book that people on the right would attack you, so what is this about? guest: honestly, i think th