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🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This week Latino USA shares the first episode from the Valle de Sueños podcast.
We launch Valle de Sueños on Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day to honor those who have journeyed and kept their resiliency, faith, and love despite the treacherous path to citizenship. Our Lady represents strength, hope, and access to a kind, loving world, which represents the dreams of those who sacrifice their lives as migrants.
In episode 1, our host Laura Peña introduces the binational community of Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas from her perspective as a borderland native. After providing contextual background of the complex humanitarian situation at the beginning of the new Biden Administration, she begins telling the story starting on Day 1 of the humanitarian operation to close the Matamoros refugee encampment. Would the first group of migrants be allowed into the U.S.? The listener is left in suspense.
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0:00.0 | Hola Latino USA listener como está es, |
0:10.8 | It's Maria Inujosa. |
0:12.6 | And today I want to share with you a podcast that we've been listening to here. |
0:17.2 | It's called Maya de Sueños or Valley of Dreams. |
0:20.6 | It's from our colleagues at Bainia podcast. |
0:23.8 | The podcast follows a group of migrants who under the former Trump administration were |
0:28.5 | forced to stay in Mexico while their asylum requests were processed in the US under the |
0:33.4 | migrant protection protocols. |
0:35.8 | You know, they're known as the remain in Mexico policy. |
0:40.1 | Thousands of people have lived for months, many for years in extreme and dangerous conditions |
0:45.1 | while they wait amid efforts by the Biden administration to end the program. |
0:49.8 | 27 people were chosen to cross into the US in this first episode of Vallée de Sueños. |
0:58.0 | And Laudapania, an attorney activist and originally from the US Mexico border, is going to tell |
1:03.4 | that story. |
1:04.8 | But what seemed like a long awaited happy ending was not what they imagined it to be. |
1:09.8 | Here's Laudapania in Maya de Sueños. |
1:17.1 | In this episode, we explore the first day of the humanitarian effort in Matamotos and |
1:21.8 | Brownsville. |
1:23.2 | Faithful day, 27 people were chosen to be the first to realize the dream of finally entering |
1:30.3 | the United States to seek protection and start a new life. |
1:35.8 | This story is critical now more than ever. |
1:38.9 | For the first time in two years, a judge has ordered that the entire US Mexico border reopen |
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