Biden’s border crisis
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🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Elin Nakashima with Washington Post reports. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Martín Powers. |
| 0:20.1 | It's Monday, March 15th. |
| 0:24.3 | Today, how Biden is responding to an unprecedented number of minors at the border. |
| 0:29.9 | And the doctors on the front lines of fighting misinformation. |
| 0:37.4 | I think that the overarching theme of the Trump administration's approach to immigration |
| 0:43.6 | and border enforcement is deterrence. |
| 0:46.4 | So the idea was to just keep people out by a variety of means and discourage them from |
| 0:51.9 | even attempting to come across the border and even to seek asylum in the United States. |
| 0:58.9 | Nick Muraf covers the Department of Homeland Security for the post. |
| 1:02.2 | What I think we're seeing with the Biden administration is a real eagerness to repudiate |
| 1:07.2 | the Trump administration's policies. |
| 1:09.7 | But even though so many people were warning that making changes to border policy is volatile |
| 1:15.9 | and risky proposition that requires careful planning, I think what we're seeing is that |
| 1:20.7 | they appear to have made many of these changes without putting the infrastructure in place |
| 1:26.8 | to deal with the consequences. |
| 1:29.9 | So on Saturday evening, the Biden administration announced that they were going to mobilize |
| 1:35.1 | FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to help care for the record number of unaccompanied |
| 1:43.1 | minors who have been crossing the border and are now backed up in U.S. border patrol stations |
| 1:49.4 | as well as HHS shelters. |
| 1:52.4 | The backup is the result of a lack of shelter space for the unaccompanied minors with health |
| 1:59.2 | and human services. |
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