In The Mouth Of The Wolf

Latino USA

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4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Since January 2019, nearly 68,000 asylum seekers have been ordered to wait in Mexico as their cases make their way through the U.S. courts system. The wait can take years, and it can often be deadly. After Mexico boasted its highest number of deportations ever in 2019, a group of local researchers and advocates set out to document just how extensive the cooperation has become between the U.S. and Mexico. The study concluded that Mexico violated its guaranteed constitutional protections when, under the Trump administration, the country mirrored its immigration policies after those of the U.S. In this episode of Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa talks to Alicia Moncada and Gretchen Kuhner about their findings and why President Biden should prioritize reform of the U.S. asylum in his first 100 days of office.

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0:00.0	Funtura.
0:09.0	Mexico and the US know very well the danger that these people are facing in their own countries.
0:14.0	Knowing that, they made a plan to put these people in some of the most dangerous places in Mexico.
0:20.0	So something that we learn and this report shows is the dark side of humanity.
0:35.0	From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inojosa.
0:39.0	Today in La Voka del Lobo, in the mouth of the wolf.
0:43.0	We hear from Mexican researchers about Mexico's failure to protect asylum seekers stuck waiting.
0:52.0	This week President Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States.
0:58.0	High on his legislative agenda are promises to reform the country's immigration system and to attempt to undo Donald Trump's most controversial policies.
1:08.0	One of those policies is the migrant protection protocols known as MPP or the remain in Mexico policy under the program established in January of 2019.
1:20.0	Nearly 68,000 asylum seekers have been ordered to wait in Mexico as their asylum cases make their way through the US system.
1:30.0	The wait can often take years now and it can often be deadly. In fact, that's what I witnessed last year when Latino USA visited Huárez in Mexico's northern border and later on, Dapatchula, all the way on the southern border with Guatemala.
1:48.0	I was there to meet with asylum seekers who were living in shelters and in parks on the streets and with Mexican government officials who denied working with the United States on immigration policy.
2:01.0	Even when we were witnessing taking place right in front of our eyes.
2:06.0	Good afternoon.
2:07.0	CBP receives 10 people today, increasing in the afternoon. We are going to the number 19,428.
2:19.0	CBP will see 10 people today, number 19,428. A Mexican official calls this out to a large room.
2:27.0	429, 430.
2:30.0	The person holding the number approaches the official to say that they're here.
2:36.0	432.
2:38.0	433.
2:41.0	434.
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