Hello, listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis here, just dropping by the main feed to share

that over at the bird feed, we just released a new episode about the Central American Refugee Crisis.

Our senior editor, Brianna Renix, is a lawyer for asylum seekers on the southern border.

And our legal editor, Orrin Nimni, also does legal work surrounding asylum and immigration law.

And Orin just traveled to Central America to see firsthand the effects of the Trump administration's horrific anti-immigrant, anti-refugee policies.

So in this bonus episode we just released over at the bird feed, Orrin and Brianna share

what they have learned from their work and travels thus far.

And they give a good rundown of the larger context behind the refugee crisis

that you have been hearing about in the news.

We are going to share an excerpt from this episode, but if you want to hear the full episode,

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If you don't want to, totally fine.

We'll be back in two weeks with another main episode here on this feed.

For now, here's an excerpt

from Oren and Brianna's Dispatches from Central America. You know, you've got some,

like, I had someone in front of me, like, crying about how his son had been torn away from him, and he hadn't seen him in three months,

and then he was deported out of the country, and he has no recourse as to what to do,

how to get his son back.

It's not like, you know, the Honduran state or the U.S. state are trying to, like,

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