This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

As we always do, we have included the sources for this podcast in the show notes.

I've also included a link to Primrose's legal aid fundraiser.

People would like to help out.

Yeah. The The For Rose, Noemi, and Primrose and the dozens of other migrants I met in the jungle,

the goal was to get here.

Some of them had friends they wanted to stay with, but many did not.

They just wanted a chance.

A chance to work and be paid a fair wage.

A chance for their kids to have a dream and a future.

A chance to sleep safely at night.

Once they got across that line, over that wall or across that river,

they wanted to make their case for asylum,

to ask for help and someone to keep them safe,

to give them an opportunity to build their lives again.

But even for the very few who made it, the risks weren't over.

Within hours of taking office, Trump had begun signing executive orders that would make life

for migrants on the way to the USA, and those already here, even more difficult.

To the cheers of the crowd, he signed an order that kept TikTok online, pardoned the people who stormed the capital on January 6, 2021, and attempted

to rescind birthright citizenship from the children of migrants. He ended CVP1, and with his Sharpie,

ordered the building of more walls, and the resulting death of more people

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