The U.S. Government continues to unlawfully expel individuals and families with absolutely no due process. How are agents at the border justifying turning around central americans hasans, but waving the ucranians in to get asylum? Well, i mean, they don't really say much when when i ask them, imen. It really comes down to a title forty two that gives order officials absolute discretion over which asylum seekers can get through. So board patrol is a law enforcement agency writes so it' be like giving cops the authority to say who can and cannot file domestic violence charges.
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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