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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - Trapped on the Streets of El Paso

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Enacted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Title 42 allows border patrol to expel migrants from the U.S. before they have a chance to apply for asylum. Denied the opportunity to apply for asylum, and unable to travel, migrants are left to fend for themselves on the streets of El Paso in winter.


Guest: Bob Moore, founder and CEO of El Paso Matters


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As soon as we got on the line, I could tell that Bob Moore, who runs a nonprofit news site

0:41.3

called El Paso Matters, wanted me to be careful about how he spoke about his hometown.

0:47.1

In the last month, Bob's gotten used to people like Tucker Carlson, talking about El Paso

0:51.9

like this. In the last year, illegal immigration in El Paso has risen by over 280%.

0:59.9

This rhetoric is driving Bob nuts. And none of these people are ever leaving. This is an invasion

1:06.8

of our country. We don't have a border. It is not an invasion.

1:11.8

Nobody's trying to force their way into my home. None of these people are carrying guns.

1:22.2

There's nothing that resembles an invasion. By now, you've probably seen the pictures

1:29.2

of what's going on in El Paso. Hundreds of people, camped out on the street. Some sandwiching

1:35.2

themselves between cardboard to keep warm. All of these people are desperate, having walked

1:41.7

for miles through Mexico to get here. Bob says these pictures aren't wrong, so much

1:49.7

is incomplete. In most of the city, its business is usual, but there are a couple of jammed

1:55.7

up places getting a whole lot of attention. And you might not have heard about the volunteers

2:00.7

who are keeping these migrants warm and fed.

2:04.4

If you were to go down to Sacred Heart Church where this crowd is congregating, you'd

2:08.3

see cars pulling up and popping their trunks. Inside the trunk of the car, there would be burritos

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