What's Happening in DC?

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Only 10 to 15 percent of the migrants that actually arrive in DC stay here, volunteers say. Volunteers count off migrants and organize them into cars or vans at a nearby church. After getting a hot meal and their essentials, migrants can talk to volunteers about getting a train ticket to their final destination. "They're trying to create chaos here to prove a political point," says one volunteer.

Texas and Arizona's governors are giving migrants bus tickets to the capital. The mayor of Washington, DC, says it’s causing a humanitarian crisis in the city — and that the White House isn’t helping.

This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Serena Solin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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