Border
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Teresia sells clothes under a tree in a town called Malaba, on the
border
of Uganda and Kenya.
At least in the larger Malaba border, she's at the first rung.
He has to decide on tax policy, on currency, on
border
patrol, on policing.
It's right on the eastern
border
of Nevada.
That is, until I went to Eduardo's farm in Extremadura, 50 miles north of Seville, right on the Portugal
border.
The
border
is porous.
The other dog is McKenzie, a
border
collie.
[McKenzie - Introduction to head coil] This dog, McKenzie, a
border
collie, is highly trained.
And she had heard about the family separations at the southern
border
and wanted to know what she could do to help.
I started my career decades ago at the southern US border, working with Central American asylum seekers.
So why are people showing up at our southern
border?
Most of the immigrants and refugees that are coming to our southern
border
are fleeing three countries: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
One, this is not a historically high level of interceptions at the southern border, and, in fact, people are presenting themselves at checkpoints.
Asylum seekers are people who present themselves at a
border
and say that they'll be persecuted if they're sent back home.
Border
guards are telling people when they show up at our borders that our country's full, that they simply can't apply.
[This talk contains graphic images] So I'm sitting across from Pedro, the coyote, the human smuggler, in his cement block apartment, in a dusty Reynosa neighborhood somewhere on the US-Mexico
border.
I was born in 1993 in the northern part of North Korea, in a town called Hyesan, which is on the
border
with China.
In the winter of 1942, Hans made a treacherous journey to the Czechoslovakian
border
to meet anti-Nazi rebels.
Twice a week, I drive from my home near Tijuana, Mexico, over the US border, to my office in San Diego.
The stark contrast between the poverty and desperation on one side of the
border
and the conspicuous wealth on the other always feels jarring.
But what makes this contrast feel even starker is when I pass by the building that those of us who work on the
border
unaffectionately refer to as the black hole.
I'm an immigration attorney and the policy and litigation director of Al Otro Lado, a binational nonprofit helping immigrants on both sides of the US-Mexico
border.
I used to be fun at parties, but now, I inevitably find myself telling people about how our government tortures refugees at the
border
and in the detention camps.
Trump's mass separations of refugee families at the southern
border
shocked the conscience of the world and woke many to the cruelties of the US immigration system.
Thousands more refugee children have been taken from their grandparents, siblings and other family members at the
border.
In fact, in 2019, the number of apprehensions at our southern
border
has actually gone up.
And we tell people every day at the border, "If you seek asylum in the United States, you risk family separation, and you risk being detained indefinitely."
Now not every migrant at the
border
is a refugee.
I learned this firsthand when the US government placed me on an illegal watch list for my work helping immigrants at the
border.
One day, in January of 2019, I was leaving my office in San Diego and crossing the
border
to go back to my home in Mexico.
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