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Speaker 1: So it's Sunday, March seven, and it's about to be

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Speaker 1: you know, eleven am. And right now I'm in Matamotos, Mexico.

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Speaker 1: I'm in a small plaza that is right next to

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Speaker 1: where the migrantent encampment is. I recorded this audio earlier

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Speaker 1: this year, the day after a migrant camp just across

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Speaker 1: from Brownsow in South Texas was cleared out. For almost

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Speaker 1: two years, it was the home for hundreds of mostly

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Speaker 1: Central Americans and Mexicans seeking asylum in the US. Most

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Speaker 1: had finally been allowed into the US. Some were sent

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking inside and it's really really quiet. I'm

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Speaker 1: used to, you know, hearing you know, kids, families, moms, dads,

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Speaker 1: quiet now. At one point, this now empty area held

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Speaker 1: more than three thousand asylum seekers forced to wait in

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Speaker 1: Mexico as their cases made their way through US immigration courts. Historically,

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Speaker 1: for decades, people had always been allowed to remain in

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Speaker 1: law and international treaty. Obligations, but the Trump administration disregarded

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Speaker 1: all of that when it established the Remain in Mexico policy,

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Speaker 1: officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP. The

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Speaker 1: policy first rolled out in January of twenty nineteen in

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Speaker 1: As I walk by, the tents are here, they're empty.

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Speaker 1: They see firewood branches, I see little tables. I see shoes,

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Speaker 1: you know, that have been left behind. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: crazy that it's like now closed. I met so many

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Speaker 1: and so much more. And I would always wonder, you know,

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Speaker 1: when I crossed into Matamoros that this tent encampment you know,

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Speaker 3: From futuro media. It's let you know, USA I'm Maria

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Speaker 3: Nihosa today. Immigration policies under President Joe Biden, six months

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Speaker 3: into his administration. What's changed and what hasn't. On the

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Speaker 3: campaign trail, then candidate Joe Biden made a lot of

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Speaker 3: promises related to immigration.

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Speaker 4: Within one hundred days, I'm going to send to the

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Speaker 4: United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over eleven

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Speaker 4: million undocumented people and all of those so called dreamers,

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Speaker 4: those DOAKA kids. They're going to be immediately certified again

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Speaker 4: to be able to stay in this country and put

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Speaker 4: on a path to citizenship. All those people are seeking asylum.

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Speaker 1: They deserve to be heard.

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Speaker 4: That's who we are, where a nation says if you

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Speaker 4: want to flee and you're feeling oppression, you should come.

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Speaker 3: A half year has gone by since Biden took office,

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Speaker 3: and some immigrant rights advocates are saying that things are

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Speaker 3: happening just too slowly. In fact, critics say that some

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Speaker 3: of the messaging coming from this White House actually contradicts

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Speaker 3: what Biden said during his campaign, and they say at

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Speaker 3: times it sounds all too similar to former President Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump's positioning.

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Speaker 4: I can say quite colarly, don't come, and what we're

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Speaker 4: in the process of getting set up, and it's not

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Speaker 4: going to take a whole long time is to be

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Speaker 4: able to apply for asylum in place, So don't leave

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Speaker 2: Now is not the time to come, and the vast

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Speaker 5: Asylum processes that.

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Speaker 6: The border will not occur immediately will take time to implement.

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Speaker 6: The United States will continue to enforce our laws and

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Speaker 6: secure our border. So let's discourage our friends, our neighbors,

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Speaker 6: are family members from embarking on what is otherwise an

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Speaker 3: On June first of this year, President Biden delivered on

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Speaker 3: his promise to officially end the Remain in Mexico policy.

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Speaker 3: His administration has also allowed several thousand migrants with active

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Speaker 3: cases into the US, including those from the Matamoros camp. Still,

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Speaker 3: while the Remain in Mexico policy is now dead on paper,

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Speaker 3: two expulsions, which is another restriction imposed by his predecessor

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Our producer Renaldo Leanos Junior is based in

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Speaker 7: And compamentomotalque lingo, but a puketu mefua compamento that's Marivell.

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Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, she and Dianna, her partner of six years,

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Speaker 1: We're not using Marievel's or Danna's real names because they

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Speaker 1: in Matamos, marievelisas she and Vienna were constant targets of homophobia, harassment,

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Speaker 1: In fact, Dianna received a phone call from the United

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Speaker 1: to be pre Trump. Unfortunately, the story was different for Marivel.

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Speaker 1: After leaving Matamos and missing her final hearing, Marivel was

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Speaker 1: Kenji Kazuka is the Associate Director of Research and Analysis

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Speaker 1: of Refugee Protection at human rights First, he explains exactly

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Speaker 9: People who are in MPP are told to register through

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Speaker 9: an app called Connecta and that's operated by the un

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Speaker 9: Refugee Agency, and once they're registered, they should receive a

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Speaker 9: And then they're escorted to the port of entry and

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Speaker 1: Again, this process is only for those who have active

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Speaker 1: MPP cases like Danna. The idea of remaining in Mexico

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Speaker 1: without Diana indefinitely caused so much stress in Marivelle that

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Speaker 1: her hair began to fall out. Still, her hope remained strong.

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Speaker 1: decided to return to Matamoros. They were still afraid of

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Speaker 1: When I first met Marivel and Vienna back in the

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Speaker 1: They called them derogatory terms. A man would expose himself

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Speaker 1: Her name is Mayela, a migrant from El Salvador. In

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Speaker 1: October twenty nineteen, Mayela crossed the border with the help

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Speaker 1: Gastro stopped by the migrant camp with the goal of

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Speaker 1: Gastro was welcomed with cheers, and after spending some time

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Speaker 7: Presente tiod Minta Timoni Squero.

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Speaker 1: Extremely discouraged, Marivel felt the government just wanted to wear

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Speaker 1: Marivel and Dienna would not give up. In February of

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Speaker 1: Diana was finally allowed into the US as part of

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Speaker 1: President Biden's m PP widen down. Marivel stayed on the

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Speaker 1: I learned from an activist that she couldn't bear to

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Speaker 1: unable to. In June, Buzzfeet News reported that there would

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Speaker 1: be a Phase two of the MTP wind down. Here's

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Speaker 1: Kenji from Human Rights First again.

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Speaker 9: There are still many many people waiting in Mexico who

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Speaker 9: are now eligible for this next phase of the MPP

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Speaker 9: wind down. Those cases were either closed or denied in

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Speaker 9: absentia or in the absence of the person out there hearing.

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Speaker 9: So the immigration court case needs to be reopened, and

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Speaker 9: so that's going to take a little bit more time

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Speaker 9: for the government to get those cases reopened.

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Speaker 1: In addition to the people who are covered by both

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Speaker 1: Phase one and Phase two, Kenji says more needs to

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Speaker 9: There were many asylum seekers who were denied protection after

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Speaker 9: a hearing. They had an opportunity to present their claim.

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Speaker 9: But from our perspective, it wasn't a fair opportunity. Many

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Speaker 9: They had to prepare their asylum applications and supporting materials

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Speaker 9: to be able to present claims for asylum. And so

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Speaker 9: we hope to see another phase of the wind down

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Speaker 1: And then there are the long term effects of the

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Speaker 9: The people who were affected by MPP are going to

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Speaker 9: a lifetime. I think there's going to be just years

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Speaker 4: That's never happened before in America, that's never happened before

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Speaker 2: My name is Victor Cavasso's I'm one of the directors

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Speaker 1: The sidewalk school had been migrants at the camp in Matamoros.

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Speaker 1: These expulsions mean migrants continue to be pushed back to

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Speaker 1: One place that has been pretty dangerous for migrants is Renosa.

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Speaker 1: That's where I met up with Victor, who you heard

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Speaker 2: It's necessary, and I just I don't have a choice.

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Speaker 1: It's mid June and I'm driving with Victor to a

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Speaker 2: Right now, we're going to pick up a man from

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Speaker 2: Ola I think Monseignor is in in Covid.

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Speaker 1: Victor needs a new plan. He's going to take them

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Speaker 1: The day after I visited Renosa, there was a massacre

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Speaker 3: Since taking office, President Joe Biden has formed a task

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Speaker 3: administration's zero tolerance policy. Biden has also extended temporary protected

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Speaker 3: opened it up for Venezuelans. The Biden administration is also

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Speaker 3: pushing a plan to extend citizenship to more than eleven

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Speaker 3: immigrant rights activists continued to call on Biden to end

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Speaker 3: immigrant detention. This episode was produced by Rinaldo Leanos Junior

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Speaker 3: and edited by Andrea Lopez Crusado. It was mixed by

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Speaker 3: Julia Caruso. The Latino USA team includes Marta Martinez, Mike Sargent,

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Speaker 3: your host and executive producer Marie jo Josa. Join us

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Speaker 5: Latino USA is made possible in part by the John D.

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Speaker 5: And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, working with

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Speaker 3: I'm Marie no Hoosa Next time on Latino USA. The

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Speaker 3: Portrait of Garmin Maria Machado, the award winning writer whose

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