Mexico's ambitious plan to receive deportees from the US
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mexico has started constructing giant tent shelters in border towns where people deported by the US can get food, temporary housing, medical care and free bus rides back to their hometowns. The program is called "Mexico embraces you" — and although it's intended for Mexican deportees, the country's President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government will consider sheltering migrants from other nations, too. Also, Serbia's prime minister says he'll step down following weeks of protests against government corruption. And, a decade after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission stopped investigating crimes against humanity committed under apartheid, some South African families are suing the government for not taking up their cases as promised.
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| 0:00.0 | Mexico is getting ready for lots of people to show up if deportations from the U.S. |
| 0:10.1 | surge, as the White House says. |
| 0:11.8 | It is unclear where they would go, who they would turn to if they arrive here. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:18.1 | And I'm Marco Wurman. |
| 0:19.4 | Today, Mexico's plan to reintegrate deportees. |
| 0:22.7 | And time to rebuild in Gaza, but where to even start. |
| 0:26.4 | Also, protests across Serbia prompt the Prime Minister to resign, even though it's the president who's really calling shots. |
| 0:33.4 | If you play chess, he is sacrificing the queen to save the king. |
| 0:37.7 | And the daughter of a pan-African freedom fighter remembers life with her mother. |
| 0:42.0 | We were put in jail. My mother was on the run because they wanted to assassinate her. |
| 0:47.7 | Plus, a traditional beverage that is illegal to sell in India tries to make a comeback. |
| 0:52.9 | That's all ahead today, here on the world. |
| 0:58.0 | We begin the show in Gaza, where more than 170,000 buildings have been damaged or flattened, |
| 1:04.6 | according to UN satellite data from December. A 61-year-old by the name of Adel Abad recently |
| 1:10.8 | returned to where his home used to stand. |
| 1:13.3 | He searched through scraps of broken concrete and twisted rebar, then shook his head and said, |
| 1:18.2 | I cannot imagine how we would reconstruct, although I'm engineer. It is a catastrophe. |
| 1:24.2 | That question of what is going to take to rebuild Gaza is one we posed to Mark Jarzenbeck. |
| 1:29.5 | He's a professor of the history and theory of architecture at MIT. |
| 1:33.4 | You'll need experts. You'll need machines. You'll need cranes. This is not something that the |
| 1:39.5 | locals can just manage sort of on their own in any informal way. And that itself is going to be an operation. |
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