White House Message To Migrants: "The Border Is Not Open"

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

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Summary

As a major pandemic-related immigration policy is scheduled to end, the Biden administration is warning the tens of thousands of migrants hoping to cross into the U.S. via its southern border that they should instead apply for asylum using the government's app or through a processing center in their home countries.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Abby in Columbus, Ohio. It's nurses week and I'm headed home from my shift at the local
0:06.9	children's hospital where I had to say some goodbyes to my amazing patients who will be discharged
0:13.0	before I come back for my next shift later this week. This podcast was recorded at 106 pm on Monday,
0:21.7	May 8th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this but I'll still be super excited to
0:26.8	send kids home after a long hospital stay. Okay, here's the show.
0:34.9	Those are sweet goodbyes. Yeah, for sure. Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamer
0:40.3	Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Frank Ordonia's. I also cover the White House.
0:43.6	And I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent. The Biden administration is going to be
0:49.1	wall-to-wall with one message this week. The US border is not open. With the pandemic era title
0:56.2	42 rule ending this Thursday, which allowed them to quickly deport people even asylum seekers
1:01.8	without the usual processes. Officials are expecting more than 10,000 people a day to attempt to
1:08.1	enter the United States in search of a better life. Franco, this message is aimed squarely at people
1:13.8	hoping to enter the United States. Stay where you are. Yeah, that's for sure. I mean, they're really
1:19.2	kicking up the messaging this week. I mean on Friday, Secretary of New Yorkis was on the border
1:24.8	saying the border is not open. And I had calls with senior administration officials on Friday as
1:30.0	well. And they're telling me they're going to repeat and repeat and repeat in almost daily
1:35.2	briefings that the border is not open. And they are going to make sure that they keep repeating that.
1:41.2	I mean, what they really want people to do is take some of the new legal pathways to enter the
1:46.6	country. And they've kind of created new pathways to do that. They've opened processing
1:51.4	senators in Central America and South America and as well as they have this app now that will make
1:57.5	it easier for them to apply for an appointment. You know, the Biden administration, they have two
2:03.2	primary goals. One is to counter the narrative being spread by human smugglers who are kind of
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