Crossing the border

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Thousands are journeying to the border, motivated by complicated personal and practical reasons. Plus, the sound of Mars.

Migrants are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in large numbers. Arelis R. Hernández rode along with Constable Roque Vela on a dusty road along the Rio Grande in South Texas to talk to some of the people trying to navigate the complicated policies at the border — and learn about why they’re trying to cross it.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is recording sound. Martian wind might not sound exciting, but hearing it stopped producer Bishop Sand in his tracks. The rover is continuing to record sounds, and NASA releases them in weekly files at https://soundcloud.com/nasa.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, hello he is in the Isabek Fondé Washington
0:10.2	Post.
0:11.2	Hi this is Bafferine, heart of the Washington Post.
0:12.8	Glory are Tony over the post.
0:14.9	I'm this is Post Reports.
0:16.8	I'm Alexis D.O.
0:20.8	It's Wednesday March 31st.
0:25.3	Today, a ride along the US Mexico border where people are arriving in large numbers
0:31.0	and the sound on Mars.
0:36.1	Yeah, those footpaths are well traveled.
0:42.6	See where the grass goes down.
0:45.6	We are in Finkon del Diablo, a patch of federal land that runs along the Rio Grande River
0:54.3	in Mission, Texas.
0:56.6	Our Elise Hernandez covers immigration for the post.
0:59.8	And along these dusty roads, drives Hidalgo County, Constable, Roque Vela.
1:05.8	See, last time when we came down here, it was dark, so you can see a little bit of
1:11.1	you'll be able to see what we call a recording one village.
1:13.6	And you'll see the abandoned houses and people used to live there back in the day.
1:18.6	Back here?
1:20.6	There's nothing out here.
1:25.4	Like, how would they get water?
1:27.4	A river.
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