Hey, hey, what's up? It's Gustav Ariano, and this is the Times, essential news from the LA Times.

Today, we're bringing you a story about a humanitarian crisis that's been unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico borders for years now, and that we've covered previously on this podcast.

From our friends at Texas Public Radio and the Houston Chronicle, it's a story of an immigration journey like few others, one that extends more than 10,000 miles from the rubble of the 2010 Haitian earthquake

through South America, all the way to Del Rio and the Houston suburbs.

It's Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022, and today, episode one of the new podcast, Line in the Land.

In the first season, Texas Public Radio and the Houston Chronicle

explore the human story behind this Haitian immigration journey.

We're going to bring you these stories once a week through August,

and together, they touch on the topics of our times,

from immigration policies to American Foreign Strategy,

to the unfulfilled promise to rebuild Haiti.

It's September 17, 2021.

Under the Del Rio International Bridge on the Texas side of the U.S. Mexico border,

children are crying.

It's 100 degree heat. Thousands of Haitians are corralled in a squalid

camp. So you have 14 plus thousand people under the bridge. It is hot. The dust is there.

Yarlene Joseph has held Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border for years, but she says this scene in Del Rio was different.

You see the desperation and hopelessness in the faces of the people, and I was separated from them by little chicken wire.

Families sit under the shade of rough shelters made from blankets and giant reeds growing on the Rio Grande River.

Others have tents.

Some of the Haitian families have already been waiting there

in the impromptu U.S. migrant camp for days.

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