What Next - Trapped on the Streets of El Paso
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
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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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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Ian Sulling, and I'm with one of McCain's farmers who grow their |
| 0:04.0 | potatoes. Hang on, these are odd-looking potatoes. That's kale Ian. You do know you |
| 0:08.9 | need potato to make chips, right? Yes, but we don't just grow potatoes. We |
| 0:13.5 | actually rotate different crops to help keep the soil healthy. So we eat |
| 0:16.6 | McCain chips. I'm helping do some good. Exactly, yeah. You're supporting the move |
| 0:21.1 | to regenerative farming. By the way, I do know the difference between kale and |
| 0:25.2 | potatoes. Of course, you do. McCain, let's all check in. |
| 0:37.2 | As soon as we got on the line, I could tell that Bob Moore, who runs a non-profit |
| 0:42.2 | news site called El Paso Matters, he wanted me to be careful about how he spoke |
| 0:46.8 | about his hometown. In the last month, Bob's gotten used to people like Tucker |
| 0:51.2 | Carlson, talking about El Paso like this. In the last year, illegal immigration |
| 0:57.3 | into El Paso has risen by over 280%. This rhetoric is driving Bob nuts. And |
| 1:05.1 | none of these people are ever leaving. This is an invasion of our country. We |
| 1:10.5 | don't have a border. It is not an invasion. Nobody's trying to force their way into |
| 1:21.0 | my home. None of these people are carrying guns. There's nothing that |
| 1:25.5 | resembles an invasion. By now, you've probably seen the pictures of what's |
| 1:31.4 | going on in El Paso. Hundreds of people camped out on the street, some sandwiching |
| 1:37.1 | themselves between cardboard to keep warm. All of these people are desperate |
| 1:42.4 | having walked for miles through Mexico to get here. Bob says these pictures |
| 1:49.3 | aren't wrong, so much is incomplete. In most of the city, its business is |
| 1:54.8 | usual, but there are a couple of jammed up places getting a whole lot of |
| 1:58.7 | attention. And you might not have heard about the volunteers who are keeping |
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