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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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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