What Next TBD: Seeking Asylum Via App

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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CBP One, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's app that is supposed to make crossing the border more efficient, is littered with bugs. But even a perfectly functional smartphone app would pose problems for people seeking asylum on the southern U.S. border. Guest: Arelis Hernández, Washington Post reporter Gia Del Pino, director of communications at the Kino Border Initiative Felicia Rangel Samponaro, director of the Sidewalk School Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
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0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime
0:29.2	video. If you've never been to Matamoros, Mexico, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas,
0:39.2	Felicia Ranhal Sampanaro wants you to know what the city's park looks like, because it's not a park anymore.
0:46.6	It's a makeshift home for people trying to get to the U.S.
0:50.5	Whole families live out in what used to be Matamoros's park and at its height like a month or two
0:57.1	ago we had over 2,000 people living in this park and this small space one on top of the other so
1:04.6	there's also trash there's only four porta-potties for all of these people. So it's just really unsanitary.
1:13.4	And then you're living outside amongst the cartels that run those cities.
1:19.5	Cities like Matamoros and Reynosa, which also has a large encampment.
1:24.8	The camps have grown and shrunk over the years, largely depending on U.S.
1:28.7	immigration policy. The people living in them often come from places like Venezuela or Honduras.
1:34.9	Some have endured terrifying journeys just to get to Mexico.
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