Gustavo solise is a border reporter for k p b. S an opshot omis firm, one of the hosts of to day on iReport. He says he's been seeing rising numbers of Russians and Ukranians crossing into the united states from mexico. Solise: "I've seen it on the ground. I think mexico reported something like 30 thousand russian nationals in january and february alone"
The US southern border remains closed to asylum seekers on account of Covid-19, unless you happen to be Ukrainian.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Matt Collette and host Sean Rameswaram.
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