Biden at the border
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A record breaking 70% of the United States has been covered by snow, rolling blackouts |
| 0:16.6 | also hitting the nation from Minnesota to Texas. |
| 0:19.1 | I mean, the pictures we're seeing are incredible. |
| 0:21.1 | Water that is frozen coming through ceiling fans in the ceiling. |
| 0:24.7 | The entire state for the first time in weather history under that winter storm warning, we |
| 0:30.3 | also had portions in West Texas that were under a blizzard warning. |
| 0:34.4 | The biggest story in the United States right now is the weather. |
| 0:38.6 | It's really damn cold. |
| 0:40.0 | Keep in mind, it is warmer in Moscow than it is right now in Dallas. |
| 0:45.0 | It's so cold people are dying in their homes. |
| 0:48.0 | The brutal winter weather across the Southern United States has now killed at least 21 people |
| 0:53.6 | left millions without power and spun tornadoes in multiple states. |
| 1:00.5 | It's worth remembering in this historic winter, there are thousands of people just waiting |
| 1:05.3 | at the border. |
| 1:06.3 | It meant migrant populations, which is funny to say migrant because they're actually static. |
| 1:11.9 | They've been there for a really long time now because they were thrust into this program |
| 1:16.2 | called the migrant protection protocol or quote unquote remain in Mexico. |
| 1:21.2 | These are folks who were seeking asylum in the US. |
| 1:24.7 | They did it the legal way. |
| 1:26.1 | They turned themselves into a border patrol agent or tried to cross an international bridge |
| 1:30.6 | to present an asylum claim and were sent back to Mexico with a court date. |
| 1:36.5 | And those folks have been waiting months in many cases now years for court dates, but immigration |
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