The Outsourcing of America’s Border Problem

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains descriptions of severe injuries. Tough new border policies introduced by the Biden administration have sharply reduced the number of migrants crossing into the United States. But the measures have also created a combustible bottleneck along the southern border. That situation exploded last week when a deadly fire broke out at a detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Simon Romero, a national correspondent for The Times, explains how the United States has leaned more heavily on Mexico to help handle its immigration dilemma, bringing cities like Juárez to a breaking point. Guest: Simon Romero, a national correspondent for The New York Times covering the Southwest.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernicee, and this is Daily.
0:07.0	At least 40 migrants are dead after a fire at a detention center in Mexico near the US
0:19.1	border.
0:20.1	One by one, Mexican soldiers pull people out of the building.
0:24.0	The filar blanket's cover in the dead, 28 seriously hurt, a fatal fire in an immigrant
0:29.4	detention center in Juarez, Mexico.
0:31.9	Before the fire, Mexican police arrested migrants off the streets and threw them into
0:36.9	the cells.
0:37.9	Many of the shelters there were over-saturated and overwhelmed, overcrowded.
0:41.7	Raised troubling questions about the way immigration is being handled by the United States.
0:47.6	There is no question that we have a very serious challenge.
0:53.4	Today, my colleague, Simone Romero, on how America outsourced its immigration dilemma to Mexico
1:01.0	and brought cities like Juarez to a breaking point.
1:09.3	It's Friday, April 7.
1:18.3	So Simone, you've been doing a lot of reporting at the US border with Mexico.
1:23.7	And I know recently you've been focused on this terrible fire that broke out at a detention
1:28.2	center just on the Mexican side.
1:30.8	What have you found out in the time since it broke out?
1:34.2	So on Monday, March 27, authority is ensued at Juarez in northern Mexico, went around the
1:40.4	city and they began rounding up dozens of migrants after receiving complaints that they
1:46.8	had been begging or harassing people on the streets of the city.
1:52.0	And they took them to this facility which really resembles a jail more than a shelter.
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