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It Could Happen Here

Refugee Mutual Aid in Washington DC

It Could Happen Here

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News, Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mia talks with Amy Fischer from Sanctuary DMV about caring for the refugees Greg Abbott and others are sending to DC

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1:39.4

Welcome to it could happen here the podcast about the world falling apart and how we can put it back together again.

1:50.4

I'm your host Christopher wall now three months ago we covered great habits attempt to shut down the border and how he was forced basically to back down by a Mexican trucker strike.

1:59.4

And in that episode we mentioned that habits newest stunt was deporting people from Texas to Washington DC to make Biden look bad by you know moving the problem to him.

2:09.4

And as a political stunt this is largely failed as a humanitarian disaster and flicking on told human misery on completely innocent people it is still continuing to one fold.

2:17.4

And here today to talk about this with us is Amy Fisher with sanctuary DMV and the migrants holiday in mutual aid network Amy thank you for joining us and welcome to the show.

2:28.4

Thank you so much for having me so excited to be here.

2:31.4

Yeah, um somewhat less excited that this is happening because dear God.

2:37.4

Yeah so I guess to start off do you want to tell us a bit about what's been I guess how this started and what the sort of initial reaction and non reaction of the DC government has been.

2:50.4

Sure so in April governor Abbott started busing people from the border to DC.

3:01.4

We knew from the get go that this was a racist publicity stunt particularly because the first few buses were dropped off right in front of the Fox News building.

3:13.4

Yeah and we all initially thought it was going to be a few weeks of busing people and here we are in the middle of July and the buses have kept coming.

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