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Your Why. Has

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it Bidens administration proposed a change

2:22

to immigration laws meant to discourage

2:24

people from crossing the border illegally.

2:27

The regulation and I was yesterday's modest

2:29

in scope. We would make it easier

2:31

for the United States to deport some

2:34

asylum seekers who are considered as security

2:36

risk, but that's small change illuminates the

2:38

administration's larger strategy towards thousands of asylum

2:40

seekers who have come to the southern

2:42

border. Which he has heard about. Steve the has

2:44

you spoke with as Secretary of Homeland Security. Asleep

2:47

Yeah! We interviewed on One Hundred

2:49

My Arcus for this Npr election

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series on on Immigration. Yes, it would.

2:53

You find out what's the wider size? Or the

2:55

administration wants people to enter the Us legally

2:57

or not at all. They want people to

2:59

apply for asylum from their home countries or

3:01

at an American port of entry instead of

3:04

slipping in through the desert. Here's how my

3:06

artist point. Of well, Our goal

3:08

is to. Eliminate

3:10

to the fullest extent possible

3:13

the phenomenon of what. Is

3:16

commonly termed irregular

3:18

migration people. Placing:

3:21

Their lives in their life savings

3:23

in the hands of smugglers to

3:25

arrive in between the ports of

3:28

entry which is. Dangerous.

3:31

And also feeds a

3:33

criminal network and instead

3:36

use lawful pathways. To.

3:38

Make claims for relief under United States

3:41

lot. Yeah, the Us has made it

3:43

easier to get here from some troubled

3:45

countries like Venezuela, and little harder for

3:47

asylum seekers to stay if they don't

3:49

choose one of those legal pathways. Or

3:52

I should mention, the administration also wanted

3:54

to expand immigration courts so people who

3:56

are not eligible for asylum would be

3:58

deported more quickly. But. That requires

4:01

a change in law, which republicans

4:03

in Congress first supported and then

4:05

reject as great as bipartisan. Dell.

4:07

Donald Trump blasted the bell and

4:09

then told Republicans not to support

4:11

it, right? What's the basic difference

4:13

between democrats and Republicans? Always you

4:15

are. We should emphasize some Republicans agree

4:17

with Democrats on the legislation, but

4:19

broadly speaking democrats want people to another

4:22

country legally while the Donald Trump wing

4:24

of the Republican party once people really

4:26

not to becoming so much at all

4:29

and Trump talks of mass deportation. What?

4:31

Is Biden sees emigration, law enforcement

4:33

officials. See Odyssey see his job will.

4:36

My office is a former prosecutor who

4:38

says he will enforce the law and

4:40

also one time Cuban refugees who says

4:42

he understands what it means to be

4:44

displaced and you can hear the competing

4:46

pressures in this exchange. Do you think

4:48

most people who ask for asylum have

4:50

a legitimate case. I would

4:52

respectfully submit that the majority do not

4:54

qualify for most of them. If

4:57

it got right down to it, probably

4:59

should not have come if you were

5:01

able to give him as like some.

5:03

It's if I was able to give

5:05

them advice of course. But I don't

5:08

mean to diminish the desperation that fuels

5:10

their travels, her, and their flight when

5:12

loving parents. Are fearful

5:14

of sending their daughter to

5:16

school. Because. The walk

5:19

is so precarious. And

5:21

they actually take. The. Leap.

5:24

To. Send that daughter alone.

5:27

To. Traverse another country only to reach

5:29

our southern border. I don't want

5:31

to diminish. What? That means

5:33

in the lives of people.

5:35

But. The fact of the matters of

5:38

the don't qualify for release. It

5:40

won't Stay America says that on

5:42

his watch, the Department of Homeland

5:44

Security has returned seven hundred, twenty

5:46

thousand people to their home countries

5:48

just in the past year, and

5:50

Homeland Security officials offer that number

5:52

because it is the opposite of

5:54

the picture painted by Republicans who

5:56

talk routinely of open borders, right?

5:58

and more and.com conversation can be heard

6:00

on Morning Edition. A

6:11

vessel carrying aid to a floating pier

6:14

off the coast of Gaza set sail

6:16

from Cyprus yesterday. Now, U.S. officials say

6:18

the American-built pier will help to increase

6:20

the flow of aid into the war

6:22

zone where 2.3 million people live. Aid

6:26

groups are questioning the value of this plan.

6:29

The U.S. is setting up the floating pier

6:31

because its ally Israel has closed the land

6:33

crossings into Gaza through which food and supplies

6:35

would normally flow. And to tell

6:37

us more, we're joined by NPR's Jane Araff. Hi,

6:40

Jane. Good morning, Layla. So, we've

6:42

been hearing about this pier for a while.

6:44

The U.S. has said it will help address

6:46

what the U.N. and aid groups call increasing

6:48

famine in Gaza. Tell us what's happening with

6:51

it. Well, the U.S. military

6:53

says that components of the pier are

6:55

waiting at an Israeli port to be

6:57

assembled. Bad weather has delayed it,

6:59

but the Pentagon says it could be in

7:01

operation as early as next week.

7:04

U.S. officials say a ship loaded with

7:06

food will offload onto a smaller vessel

7:09

in Israel, and then it will head

7:11

back to Cyprus for more aid. It's

7:13

carrying about 170 tons, enough to feed 11,000 people for

7:15

a month. And

7:20

to put that number in perspective, Layla, as

7:22

you noted, Gaza has more than 2 million

7:24

people in it. After seven

7:26

months of war, almost all of them are

7:28

dependent on aid. So, clearly, not

7:30

enough, so much need. And

7:33

there's a lot of criticism from aid groups, but

7:35

is this a situation where every little bit helps?

7:37

I mean, why are they so frustrated with this approach? Well,

7:40

essentially, it comes down to how much you

7:42

can truck in through those existing land borders

7:45

versus how much you can air-drop or send

7:47

by sea. Israel says it

7:49

needs to restrict the crossings to prevent

7:51

Hamas from bringing weapons in, but

7:54

aid officials say malnutrition and

7:56

disease are now rampant. in

8:00

Gaza this week gave an unvarnished view

8:02

of the pier, one at

8:05

a press briefing called the pier

8:07

a joke. And here's another pediatrician,

8:09

John Collard, co-founder of MedGlobal. This

8:12

is like a lab of malnutrition. You

8:14

can see the food all up and

8:16

down the corner. And you don't need

8:19

any silly piers or silly airdrops. You

8:21

need the damn gates open. Another

8:24

medical aid official pointed out that the pier, according

8:26

to the U.S., will cost $320

8:29

million. That would buy a

8:31

lot of truckloads of aid. And

8:34

she called a plan to

8:36

use contractors to distribute the

8:38

aid, the privatization of aid

8:40

efforts. And aid groups

8:42

also point out Israel will use the

8:44

same cumbersome inspection process for the pier.

8:46

They say what's lacking isn't the resources or

8:48

the aid, but the political will to

8:51

get it in. And about that political will,

8:53

I mean publicly there is a widening

8:55

gap between President Biden and Israeli

8:57

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. How

8:59

much of that is affecting the humanitarian

9:02

crisis we're seeing? Quite

9:04

a lot. In April after an

9:06

Israeli airstrike killed seven members

9:08

of the U.S.-based World Central

9:10

Kitchen in Gaza, the

9:12

U.S. received commitments from Israel that it

9:14

would reopen a border crossing and allow

9:17

more aid in through two existing ones.

9:19

And while the number of trucks going

9:22

in increased briefly, Israel has now stopped

9:24

all aid through the main Rafa crossing

9:26

from Egypt to Gaza. So

9:29

aid workers are seeing the

9:32

effect of malnutrition and the

9:34

lack of medical supplies increasingly

9:36

compounded with traumatic injuries. We

9:39

have to remember that both Biden and

9:41

Netanyahu are balancing different factions of political

9:43

support at home. For the first time,

9:45

the U.S. has publicly held up some

9:47

weapons shipments, but aid groups say that's

9:50

not nearly as much leverage as the

9:52

U.S. could exert to get in more

9:54

aid. That's NPR's Jane Arath. Thank you,

9:56

Jane. Thank you. Two

10:07

months after gangs in Haiti orchestrated a

10:09

coup that took control of the capital,

10:12

the country may finally be starting

10:14

to stabilize. A council

10:16

is supposed to choose a new leader,

10:19

and then that council is supposed to

10:21

help establish a new transitional government. A

10:23

multinational force led by Kenya plans to deploy in

10:26

the country as early as the next couple of

10:28

weeks. There are a few other people who

10:30

are in the capital. Port-au-Prince, hi, Aider. Hey,

10:32

good morning, Leila. So, you're there in

10:35

Port-au-Prince where you've been reporting on the air

10:37

that criminal gangs still control much of the

10:39

capital. The airport is still closed after nearly

10:41

two months of fighting. What's the city like?

10:44

You know, I've been here before, but this

10:47

time it feels a little eerie, I think,

10:49

surreal even. And I'll tell you why.

10:52

You make your way across town, and it feels

10:54

pretty normal. Stores are open, street vendors are out

10:56

in full force, there's traffic. There

10:58

are people going to work and kids going to school.

11:01

But then you see signs that

11:03

things are not normal. Burnt out cars

11:05

are being used to barricade the streets.

11:08

And on Wednesday, I saw two

11:10

bodies just thrown in the middle of

11:12

two different streets. One of them,

11:15

we don't know how they

11:17

died, and the other was an older lady.

11:19

A doctor told us that she came from

11:21

outside Port-au-Prince, that she died of natural causes,

11:24

and that her body ended up on

11:26

the streets. The local morgue here was

11:28

burnt down by gangs, so the doctors

11:31

said that it's possible that people just

11:33

didn't know what to do with her body.

11:36

And this is daily life here in

11:38

Port-au-Prince. It's a place where the government

11:41

has collapsed, where the gangs control most

11:43

of this city, and where

11:45

everyone is scared that they could be

11:47

the next one on the side of

11:49

the road. Wow. I mean, and

11:51

you're seeing these signs of collapse everywhere. What

11:54

are people telling you? There's

11:56

a lot of talk about politics, whether

11:58

this new transitional government will be

12:00

able to bring peace, whether it can

12:02

bring elections. And everyone is talking

12:05

about this multinational force that is supposed to

12:07

deploy in the next few weeks. I

12:09

was at a big plaza just opposite

12:12

the presidential palace. Jerome Nadel was arguing

12:14

against foreign troops. International

12:16

missions, he said, have brought nothing but

12:18

trouble in the past. And he was

12:20

saying that the independence hero, Jean-Jacques Dessalines,

12:23

would be rolling over in his grave at

12:25

this moment. Let's listen. He

12:29

said the speech from Jacques

12:32

Dessalines will not any

12:34

foreign troops be found. And

12:40

what you're hearing there is a verbal

12:42

tussle between these men. Jean Nadel-Jean interrupts

12:45

there, and he says, just send us

12:47

well-armed men. He told me that he

12:49

had to leave his home because of

12:51

the violence. His family is outside the

12:53

city. And at this point, he wants

12:55

to go back home. He doesn't care

12:57

about sovereignty. He said he just wants

13:00

peace at any cost. So

13:02

a lot riding on this transitional government. What's

13:04

the latest with that? Well,

13:07

they had made some progress earlier this month.

13:09

A bare majority of them, four out of seven,

13:11

had named the president of the council and the

13:14

transitional prime minister. And they got

13:16

a huge blowback. These four members

13:18

were accused of not even trying

13:20

to find a broad consensus. And

13:23

they were accused of just trying to take

13:25

power. So they walked both of these decisions

13:27

back. The council is now going to be

13:29

ruled by a rotating president.

13:31

See? But those details

13:33

are still being worked out. And that pretty

13:35

much puts us at square one. I

13:38

spoke to one of the members of

13:40

the council, Leslie Voltaire, and he told

13:42

me that they are focused on making

13:44

sure this multinational force gets here. And

13:47

you know, I reported from Kenya for

13:49

years, and I've seen this police force

13:51

in action. They can be

13:53

both ruthless and ineffective. And Voltaire said

13:55

they're aware of this checkered history of

13:57

the Kenyan police force, but that it

13:59

was quote, unnecessary evil. Like

14:01

40% of the police is

14:04

corrupt and associated with

14:06

the gangs. We know that it's

14:09

not the best thing

14:11

that we have, but it's what we have. And

14:14

what he's saying there is we can't trust

14:16

our police. So the only thing left to

14:18

do is to bring in foreign troops.

14:20

And PR's Adair Peralta, thank you, Adair. Thank

14:23

you, Leila. And

14:28

that's our first for Friday, May 10th. I'm

14:31

Leila Falden. And I'm Steve Inskey.

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