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Code Switch

America's Concentration Camps?

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.614.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

There's a debate over what to call the facilities holding migrant asylum seekers at the southern border. We revisit an earlier controversy to help make sense of it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Code Switch from NPRM Shireen Marisol Maraji.

0:03.1

Jeans on vacation, so I'm here in studio with Adrian Flodido.

0:06.5

Shireen, let's talk about the crisis at our Southern border.

0:11.1

Federal officials say the Southern border is out of control.

0:14.6

The surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

0:18.6

has put a strain on federal resources.

0:21.1

The president has been threatening to close the Southern border.

0:24.3

Migrant children are being held in grim and dangerous conditions

0:28.7

at detention facilities.

0:29.7

Many of them are sleeping on concrete floors,

0:31.9

including infants.

0:33.1

Many of them are sick.

0:34.3

The nation's chief border security official is set to resign.

0:37.7

John Sanders announced today he'll step down as acting commissioner

0:41.2

of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

0:47.5

You know, the last several months Shireen,

0:49.2

we've seen a huge number of migrants,

0:51.5

especially from Central America,

0:53.2

arriving at the Southern border and asking for asylum

0:56.6

in May alone, border agents apprehended more than 130,000 people.

1:02.6

And the Trump administration has been trying to make it

1:04.8

much harder for these people to be allowed into the U.S.

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