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Record Number Of African Migrants Reach US Border, But Trump's Rules Cause 70% Drop In Immigration

Tim Pool Daily News

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🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Record Number Of African Migrants Reach US Border, But Trump's Rules Cause 70% Drop In Immigration. The number of African migrants seeking asylum in the US has been steadily increasing since the number started being tracked in 2007.From 2018 to day the number has more than doubled at 5,800.But this raises several questionsAmid Trump's new rules on immigration the number of migrants both legal or otherwise has dropped by around 70%. Many people ordered to wait in Mexico gave up their refugee claims and returned home. Apprehensions under the Trump Administration also spiked recently.With all of these facts how could it be that more migrants from Africa are coming?The bigger question many have is why are these people taking an extremely dangerous journey and risking their families lives traveling half way around the world to come to the US border. They could certainly stay in any one of the countries they pass through if the goal truly is to escape some kind of hardship.The reality is that people just want to be in America.We are wealthy, we are free, and everyone knows we are better. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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record number of African migrants are arriving at the US Mexico border.

0:05.2

Now there's many reasons why this is kind of strange out of place.

0:08.6

First, with all of the changes Donald Trump has made to immigration, notably security,

0:14.2

cost increases, and other rule changes like remain in Mexico, for instance, immigration

0:18.9

is down across the board.

0:20.1

In fact, many of the people from Central America who came to the US Mexico border to seek asylum

0:25.4

were told to remain in Mexico and then ultimately went home or just left because they didn't

0:30.5

want to.

0:31.8

Now we're hearing about refugees from Africa, places like Cameroon or Angola flying

0:36.6

across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from South America through Central America and

0:41.3

up to the US Mexico border to try and gain entry to the US.

0:45.4

It seems out of place because the journey is so arduous and long, they're literally

0:49.8

on the other side of the planet.

0:52.0

If it was truly about being a refugee, you'd think they'd go to any one of the safe and

0:56.8

beautiful countries in South America instead of trying to make their way to the US border.

1:01.7

But I think there's one thing we can look at that, well there's a couple things.

1:05.3

First, I mean America's awesome.

1:06.8

Of course, they'd rather be here than say Mexico or Brazil.

1:10.1

But I mean Mexico's a pretty red place.

1:12.2

Brazil's a pretty red place.

1:13.8

But the big issue I think that is often overlooked, or maybe not, is that the US, the southern

1:19.8

border was ignored and left porous for a very long time.

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