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What A Day
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Nearly 10,000 children seeking asylum have arrived to the United States southern border since February, and a lack of shelter space has led many of them to detention centers with substandard conditions. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the number of people arriving at the border this year is expected to reach a 20-year high.
Moderna is beginning to test its COVID vaccine in children ages 6-months to 12-years-old, while other drug companies have started or will start trials in slightly older children. There's some debate about whether 3-feet of distance between students in schools might be sufficient... but the CDC has yet to revise their initial recommendation of 6-feet.
And in headlines: Georgia voters call on companies like Coca-Cola and Home Depot to stand against voter suppression law, believe it or not Russia did interference in the 2020 election, and Utah's state legislature wants to block porn on cell phones.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 17th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm getting in rest again. This is what a day where we are celebrating St. Patrick's |
| 0:12.2 | Day by moving into a castle like Anya. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, super haunted, but super irish. We're loving it. |
| 0:18.6 | Scott all the vibes of Luigi's Mansion with Irish Claire. |
| 0:32.6 | On today's show, COVID vaccines and kids, then some headlines. |
| 0:36.6 | But first, the latest do not come now. |
| 0:41.6 | Give us the time to rebuild the system that was entirely dismantled in the prior |
| 0:47.6 | administration. And we have in fact begun to rebuild that system. |
| 0:52.6 | That was DHS Secretary Alejandro Mueyorkas in an interview yesterday about the immigration |
| 0:56.9 | crisis at our southern border and sending a message to migrants, which seems to be, wait, |
| 1:01.4 | don't come now. We are still working on it. So, okay. |
| 1:04.6 | Secretary Mueyorkas also put out a statement yesterday saying that the number of people arriving |
| 1:09.0 | at the border this year is expected to reach a 20 year high. |
| 1:12.6 | And the reasons he cited make sense. Quote, poverty, high levels of violence and corruption |
| 1:16.6 | in Mexico and the northern triangle countries. These are factors that have existed for years. |
| 1:21.0 | But he also mentioned two recent hurricanes that damaged the region. And then of course, |
| 1:25.4 | there's the pandemic. Yeah, just overlapping crises. So, the number of people migrating |
| 1:30.7 | has gone up according to statistics. The bulk of the people are either single adults |
| 1:35.0 | or families, but they are also unaccompanied children. The administration has a policy to |
| 1:39.4 | expel adults and families right now. That's a holdover from the last administration's |
| 1:42.8 | pandemic response. But unlike Trump, Biden is not expelling the unaccompanied children, |
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