Amanpour: Elizabeth Neumann, John Hume Jr., Martin Luther King III and Jeremy Lin

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Elizabeth Neumann talks to Christiane Amanpour about the urgent situation at the U.S. border and the dire need for immigration reform. John Hume Jr, son of the late architect of Northern Irish peace, and Martin Luther King III reflect on the intertwined and enduring legacies of their fathers as peace builders and civil rights champions. Then in a conversation recorded just before Tuesday’s deadly attack in Atlanta, pro basketball player Jeremy Lin tells our Michel Martin why he chose to speak out after being called “coronavirus” by a fellow player on the court. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunport. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	Facing the biggest surge of border crossings in 20 years,
0:14.0	how will the Biden administration fix a chronically broken immigration system?
0:19.0	I ask former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Newman.
0:22.0	And... For the first time since we have
0:24.3	reached such an agreement that has been overwhelmingly endorsed by the people that is
0:28.6	major progress. It's St. Patrick's Day, so we consider the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement through
0:36.2	the legacy of Irish Nationalist John Hume and the intersection with Martin Luther King's
0:41.3	Civil Rights Movement. Then, as we learn more about the tragic with Martin Luther King's civil rights movement.
0:42.6	Then, as we learn more about the tragic killings of Asian women in Atlanta,
0:47.4	our Michelle Martin speaks with basketball player Jeremy Lynn,
0:51.0	outspoken critic of anti-Asian racism. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The Biden
1:12.1	administration faces the largest surge of migrants
1:15.2	the US has seen in 20 years after border patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 asylum seekers
1:21.8	in February, including about 10,000. hundred thousand
1:25.0	unacompanyed miners. And so President Joe Biden has sent out this clear message.
1:30.0	I can say quite clearly don't come and what we're in the process of getting set up
1:35.4	and it's not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in
1:40.5	place so don't leave your town or city or community.
1:47.0	President Biden says that his administration is committed to comprehensive reform and an immigration system that is safe, orderly and
1:56.2	humane.
1:57.2	But even Democrats admit that will be difficult to achieve with opposition both from Republicans and from their own party.
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