From New York, this is democracy now.

And when the speaker asks me to apologize on Babam D'Corom, what he is really asking me to do

is be silent when my community is facing bills that get us killed.

He's asking me to be complicit in this legislature's eradication of our community.

And I refuse to do so and I will always refuse to do so.

Republican lawmakers in Montana have voted to punish the state's first and only openly transgender lawmaker, Zoe Zepher,

by banning her from the House floor after she spoke out against an anti-trans bill.

She'll join us today from Montana, along with another Democratic lawmaker targeted by Republicans,

Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones, who was expelled for protesting an action on gun violence after last month's mass shooting at a Nashville school.

Jones has been temporarily reinstated and met with President Biden at the White House this week.

We come here to say that the South will rise a new, we represent a new South, a new South that is rising.

And that if we can transform the South, we can transform this nation.

Then we look at President Biden's plan to send U.S. nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea.

At their summit yesterday, President Biden and President Yoon of South Korea made a very provocative announcement

that the U.S. would be sending nuclear-armed submarines to the Korean Peninsula.

The first time that the U.S. has had nuclear weapons in South Korea in 40 years.

This comes at a very dangerous time. It's like throwing fuel into the fire and will provoke not only North Korea, but also China.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

The Biden administration's announced plans to open processing centers across Latin America where asylum seekers would have to request permission to come to the United States, blocking tens of thousands from seeking relief at the U.S. Mexico border.

The first processing centers will be located in Guatemala and Colombia.

Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean will be forced to journey to one of the nearest centers to start an asylum application or ask for refugee status to then be resettled to either the United States, Canada or Spain.

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