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Border Solidarity Roundtable

It Could Happen Here

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Border Issues and Aid in Rural Communities

Pedro Rias from the American Friends Service Committee discusses their role in documenting civil and human rights abuses at the border, providing aid to rural border communities, and advocating for policy changes. They talk about the recent chaos at the border, the detention of migrants in San Isidro and Hacumba, and the dumping of migrants at transit centers. They also discuss the observations of migrants crossing the border and being transported to camps by border patrol, as well as the lack of services provided by border patrol and the responsibility of caring for migrants being outsourced to the community.

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