About 25 thousand migrants are already waiting in mexican shelters just south of the border, waiting for tidl forty two to end. And there could be a hundred and 70 thousand migrants total at various places throughout the region who are readying to try to cross the border once that policy is lifted. Do we get a sense what the administration wants to do once they potentially do lift title forty two? Do they want to let tens of thousands of migrants in? Do they Want to out a different way to keep them out? Do we have any idea?
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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