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Speaker 1: Canting Quin trasenest momentuo tubi the SuperM Barrasamama.

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Speaker 2: Last month I spoke with a very pregnant woman. We're

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Speaker 1: Monica, and.

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Speaker 2: This is Monica's first baby. And when we spoke in May,

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Speaker 2: she was entering her third and final trimester.

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Speaker 1: Mevaldan Teresa Semana.

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Speaker 2: So far, everything has been special, from the moment she

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Speaker 2: found out she was pregnant, after waiting for so long

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Speaker 2: first one Sietero. Monica and her husband have been living

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Speaker 2: in the United States for about six years now. In

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, they fled Venezuela after receiving death threats because

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Speaker 2: of their disapproval of the government. Now they both have

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Speaker 2: TPS Temporary Protected status and they're waiting for a decision

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Speaker 2: on their asylum application. In the meantime, they've built a

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Speaker 2: new life in South Carolina, home of sweet iced Tea,

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Speaker 2: college football, and a Venezuelan community that is growing at

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Speaker 2: least by one. She always dreamt of being a mom.

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Speaker 1: So loke stimo moment.

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Speaker 2: Monica is in her thirties. She took her time becoming

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Speaker 2: a parent she wanted to feel like a fully realized

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Speaker 2: version of herself. First, to reach certain milestones like finishing

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Speaker 2: medical school, having a career, feeling stable, and little by

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Speaker 2: little she got there. For now, she's enjoying her pregnancy

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Speaker 2: at home, taking time off from her gigwork as a driver.

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Speaker 2: So in the last moments with her pregnant belly, she's

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Speaker 2: soaking up the sunny South Carolina sky. But even though

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Speaker 2: leaned more towards her home country way south in South America.

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Speaker 2: Sonsano mango conzal, mango gonzal. I love that she's been

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Speaker 2: craving mango verde, a typical treat which is so yummy.

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Speaker 2: It's unripe, green mangos with a little salt, maybe some lemon,

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Speaker 1: Algosi istibo, muikrioya.

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Speaker 2: Muikrioya, she says, meaning traditionally or classically Venezuelan. But the

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Speaker 2: mangos in South Carolina are never perfectly green. They're always

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Speaker 2: a little too ripe, the flesh is a little too yellow. Still,

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Speaker 2: she has learned to savor them regardless, like the Mangos.

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Speaker 2: Life in the US is very different, and there were

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Speaker 2: just some things she could have never expected from her

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Speaker 2: new life in South Carolina, like facing the US Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court to protect her baby's rights. I chatted with Monica

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Speaker 2: via zoom. She kept her camera off and I never

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Speaker 2: did get to see her face. In fact, Monica is

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Speaker 2: also not her real name. It's a pseudonym, and we're

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Speaker 2: not giving you any more details that could identify her

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Speaker 2: because she's decided to keep her identity a secret.

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Speaker 1: Amimiga barieo repeto.

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Speaker 2: She says, I'd love to be more public about.

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Speaker 1: This piro cia semiel aremta contramen river.

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Speaker 2: But the fear of what could happen to my baby

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Speaker 2: is just too much, and Monica has good reason to

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Speaker 2: be fearful. Donald Trump signed an executive order ending birthright

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Speaker 2: one parent being a citizen or legal permanent resident someone

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Speaker 2: with a green card. The case is now at the

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Speaker 2: U s. Supreme Court, with a decision expected any day now,

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Speaker 2: and if the Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration,

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Speaker 2: they would give him the power to end almost one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty years of precedent with a single signature,

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Speaker 2: it would end birthright citizenship for babies like Monica's. Scared

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Speaker 2: of what her temporary status could mean for her baby,

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Speaker 2: she decided to sue. Along with or other pregnant women

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Speaker 2: seeking refuge in the United States. Monigay is fighting against

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration for her baby's right to US citizenship.

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Speaker 1: Deepointly on saying, celerito, then I said the sales. You

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Speaker 1: are honored mebe hakio, sir.

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Speaker 2: All of this makes me really emotional, she says. The

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Speaker 2: fact that your baby won't be a citizen of the

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Speaker 2: country where they're born. And here is what makes Monica's

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Speaker 2: situation truly alarming. She's a refugee of Venezuela, and in

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, the Venezuelan embassy and consulate in the United

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Speaker 3: Venezuela's consulate is closed indefinitely after the government broke off

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Speaker 2: So without birthright citizenship, Monica's baby could be born without

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Speaker 2: be born stateless. So as her due date gets closer

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Speaker 2: Monica waits both excited to meet her little baby, but

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Speaker 2: well to expect the unexpected, because of course, babies don't

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Speaker 2: follow strict rules. They come when they're ready. From Futro

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Speaker 2: Media and TRX Latino Usa, I'm Mariano Rosa Today the

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Speaker 2: border of citizenship makes it all the way into a

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Speaker 2: mother's womb. On May fifteenth, on the steps of the

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court, protesters gathered for hours.

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Speaker 1: And we're very glad to be out here further Supreme

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Speaker 1: Courts and say here arguments.

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Speaker 2: The justices of the Supreme Court. We're hearing arguments on

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Speaker 2: whether the Court should lift a nationwide injunction that injunction

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Speaker 2: blocks the Trump Administration's executive order ending birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 4: We will hear argument this morning in case twenty four

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Speaker 4: eight eighty four Trump versus Cassa Incorporated.

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Speaker 2: And the inciting incident to all of this was set

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Speaker 2: in motion the first day of Donald Trump's second term.

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Speaker 2: This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship

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Speaker 2: under the fourteenth Amendment of the United States right. That's

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Speaker 2: a good one birthright. He signed an executive order ending

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Speaker 2: birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States if

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Speaker 2: their parents are in this country, either without documentation at

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Speaker 2: all or with some sort of temporary status like TPS.

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Speaker 2: But shortly after Donald Trump was sued and that executive

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Speaker 3: A third federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order

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Speaker 3: to limit birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 2: Since Trump took office, more than three hundred lawsuits have

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Speaker 3: A federal judge blocked a sweeping executive order if that

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Speaker 3: sought to end programs that promote diversity.

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Speaker 2: Blocked the president's executive order that targeted.

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Speaker 3: A law firm, blocked a push by the Trump administration

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Speaker 3: for voters to show proof of citizenship.

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Speaker 2: That that's what was discussed at the Supreme Court hearing

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. The legality of these nationwide

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Speaker 2: blocks done by district court judges, also called universal injunctions. Now,

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Speaker 2: several justices of the super majority Conservative Court, including Thomas Alito, Gorsuch,

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Speaker 2: and Kevanaugh, have questioned the legitimacy of these universal injunctions,

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Speaker 2: and although the Trump administration asked the justices to not

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Speaker 2: justices found it difficult to do that. Justice Sonya Sotomayor

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Speaker 4: If we're afraid that this is or even have a

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Speaker 4: thought that this is unlawful executive action, that it is

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Speaker 4: Congress who decides citizenship, not the executive. If we believe

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Speaker 4: some of us were to believe that, why should we

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Speaker 4: permit those countless others to be subject to what we

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Speaker 2: Thank you, counsel. The case is submitted. By the end

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Speaker 2: of the two hour long hearing, it was not clear

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Speaker 2: where the Justice has landed, particularly on the merits, and

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Speaker 2: no decision is expected until later in June. But one

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Speaker 2: thing is clear. The human cost of the administration's proposal

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Speaker 2: is real. It would shift how the US Constitution has

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Speaker 3: What does it mean for an infant to be stateless?

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Speaker 3: That is a question that we as Americans should not

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Speaker 2: There's more coming up on what's at stake with this

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Speaker 2: unprecedented constitutional challenge to birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 3: People need to understand the human states behind a Supreme

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Speaker 3: Court case that seems like it's just about procedure.

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Speaker 2: Stay with us, Yes, hey, we're back. Before the break.

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Speaker 2: We met Monica, a pregnant woman who is suing the

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Speaker 2: Trump administration and its executive order to end birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get back to her story and we're

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Speaker 2: going to hear also from Andrea Flores, an attorney at

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Speaker 3: So this lawsuit was brought by women who cannot go home,

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Speaker 3: and what would happen is if this injunction wasn't maintained

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Speaker 2: The last time the US debated this was in the

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Speaker 2: wake of the Civil War, when the thirteenth, fourteenth, and

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Speaker 2: fifteenth Amendments literally reconstructed the nation, and part of that

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Speaker 2: reconstruction served a revolutionary purpose, granting formally enslaved and free

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Speaker 2: black residents equal citizenship under the law, a move that

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Speaker 3: It was necessary for the South to attempt to keep

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Speaker 2: So, in order to protect the formerly enslaved, their children

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Speaker 3: That opens up a whole host of questions our nation

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Speaker 3: has not seen in modern times. You could be living

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Speaker 2: For parents like Monica, the option to go back to

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Speaker 1: Singing Embargoselo Sulano, Venezuelana is Pliago.

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Speaker 2: And would you want your baby to You also have

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Speaker 1: Possible Venezuelana yalla mana que metok.

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Speaker 2: Of course, she says, But she never thought she'd have

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Speaker 1: Geof TOOI and a complica Venezuelana.

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Speaker 2: So it's complicated. She loves her country and she wishes

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Speaker 1: Look, lamenta lamente.

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Speaker 2: Nana, and do you want your baby to have US citizenship?

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Speaker 2: She says. Look, it's not that I want US citizenship

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Speaker 3: We know that there are a large number of Venezuelan

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Speaker 3: not have a Venezuelan embassy or consulate. It's punishing people

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Speaker 3: who are fleeing persecution. And we have to see all

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Speaker 3: needs to call out because all of our rights are

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Speaker 2: I loved being pregnant. I loved it, and I would

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Speaker 2: But you made a decision. You did not want us

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Speaker 1: Embargo esper.

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Speaker 2: She says she hopes it's all worth it. Monica tells

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Speaker 3: Temporary protective status is a legal status.

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Speaker 2: That's Andrea Flores again, the lawyer from Forward dot US.

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Speaker 3: And Venezuelans in the United States, if they entered by

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Speaker 2: But TPS has also been under attack by the Trump

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Speaker 2: Sometimes she tells me, you just need to focus on

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Speaker 3: This administration is pursuing a very targeted attack on Venezuelan immigrants.

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Speaker 3: Just for the plaintiffs in this case to come forward

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Speaker 3: But you can see the climate that we're in is

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Speaker 2: So, Monica, you are pregnant. You are a refugee with

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Speaker 2: When you're pregnant, you have so many mixed feelings, like

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Speaker 3: But that's why it's brave and important and why people

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Speaker 2: So in the meantime, Monica waits enjoin Mango ver de

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Speaker 2: After speaking with Monicad for about an hour, I get

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Speaker 1: Told Richo.

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Speaker 5: Coveniente to have US citizenship, to be happy, safe and

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Speaker 1: Look at me, and I said, and livertail.

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Speaker 2: Because Monica tells me we live in a country where

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Speaker 2: be Sanito has to be healthy too. This episode was

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Speaker 2: produced by Monica Morales Garcia. It was edited by I

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Speaker 2: Are Managing Editor Fernanda Chiavari. It was mixed by Stephanie Lebau.

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Speaker 2: Fact checking for this episode by Roxana Aguire. The Latino USA.

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