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Thanks so much. This is Our Body Politic. I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea. There are so many different important news stories happening right now from court battles over abortion and voting rights to the continuing impact of COVID.

We've been devoting some time over recent weeks to Haiti, a nation whose moved from slavery to independence made global history and triggered the fears of colonial powers.

Today we see Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border just part of a multi-layered migrant crisis.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal authorities have been using Title 42

to expel migrants detained at the border and not take in their asylum claims.

Title 42 is basically an emergency public health order that permits this immediate

expulsion of migrants. This started with the Trump administration who cited COVID-19 as the

reason to do this, but it continues under the Biden-Harris White House. In July of this year,

Customs and Border Protection reported having stopped over 200,000 migrants at the border, which is the

highest number in over two decades. My next guest will help us understand more about what Haitians

go through as they try to navigate the U.S. immigration system. Edouij Dantakha is an activist, a 2009

MacArthur fellow, and author of many books, including a memoir called

Brother, I'm Dying.

Ed Weege, welcome to Our Body Politic.

Great to have you here.

Oh, so wonderful to be here with you.

Thank you for having me for I.

You've written about some really hard and painful aspects of your family's journey between Haiti and the U.S. I'm thinking of,

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