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She Was Tortured. America Shut Her Out.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Since January, the Trump administration has suspended the right to claim asylum at the southern border. One narrower form of protection—for those who had been tortured by their governments—was supposed to remain. But lawyers have realized that even that appears to be gone. Guest:  Mark Betancourt, freelance reporter covering immigration from DC, who wrote “This Ethiopian Woman Was Tortured by Her Government. The US is Sending Her Home Anyway” for KQED. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Isabel Angell, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.

0:07.0

Meaning all and more of our energy comes from wind farms like this one.

0:14.0

Guys, what happened to recording that the solar farms?

0:18.0

To learn more, visit about amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability.

0:29.6

Okay everyone, so look at the numbers from Q1 and you'll see that there's a sharp bit.

0:33.6

Alex? Oh, I think you're frozen.

0:36.6

And that's why it's crucial that we mean.

0:38.3

E! That sounded important.

0:41.3

Because if we don't act now...

0:42.3

We've lost him.

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0:55.0

And he's back.

0:56.0

So I hope that was all clear.

0:58.0

To verify I see E.cote.com.

1:00.0

Clames.

1:02.0

There are plenty of ways you can measure how far the Trump administration's gone when it comes to immigration.

1:11.7

You can add up the executive orders that are remaking homeland security, or scroll through

1:17.2

video after video of ICE agents shoving people into cars. You can count up the hundreds of people

1:24.1

who've been shipped off to far away countries. But I called up reporter Mark

1:29.0

Bettencourt because he's been uncovering a story that's harder to see. And it revolves around a

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