On at present’s episode of the 5 Issues podcast:Â An asylum seeker’s journey
Border reporter Lauren Villagran tells the story of a Venezuelan household’s journey and the place issues stand for Venezuelan asylum seekers making an attempt to enter the U.S. Plus, why you would possibly need to contemplate not purchasing this Black Friday.
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Taylor Wilson:
Good morning. I am Taylor Wilson, and that is 5 Issues it’s good to know Friday, the twenty fifth of November 2022. Right this moment a take a look at Venezuelan asylum seekers and their powerful journey to the US. Plus, will a tribal delegate be seated to Congress? And why you would possibly need to contemplate not purchasing this Black Friday.
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In line with US authorities, greater than 180,000 Venezuelan asylum seekers had been apprehended on the US border in roughly the previous yr. That is an enormous improve from earlier years, largely because of a Biden administration coverage put in place final yr granting Venezuelan refugees momentary safety standing. Partly in response to political pressures, that coverage was allowed to run out final month. The households that made it onto US soil earlier than the coverage lapsed on October twelfth are the fortunate ones. They get to remain within the US whereas their asylum claims are evaluated. After that date, any Venezuelan refugee discovered on the border is returned to Mexico, the place they’ve only one week to give you a plan earlier than they’ve to go away.
In a collaboration between the El Paso Instances and USA TODAY, veteran border reporter Lauren Villagran adopted one household who made it to the US earlier than the momentary safety standing coverage expired. Lauren adopted the Perezes this fall as they made their journey from El Paso, Texas to New York Metropolis, a metropolis that has seen an inflow of practically 20,000 migrants prior to now six months. Producer PJ Elliott lately sat down with Lauren to debate her reporting on the subject.
Lauren Villagran:
What we’ve seen all summer season lengthy are Venezuelans fleeing Venezuela, fleeing the financial and political circumstances in that nation, touring via South America, Central America, and Mexico to the US border. And numerous them had been coming via El Paso.
PJ Elliott:
Why are the variety of Venezuelans coming to the El Paso border so huge?
Lauren Villagran:
It has slowed down fairly a bit for the reason that Biden administration struck a cope with Mexico to return Venezuelans to Mexico beneath a coverage referred to as Title 42, which permits the US to rapidly expel migrants again to their house nation or a 3rd nation, on this case, Mexico. However as listeners could know, Title 42 is continuous to be litigated within the courts, and so it is on once more/off once more state of affairs. Individuals had been arriving one thing like 2,100, 2,200 per day simply in El Paso. That positively slowed down with the Title 42 coverage. However as immigrant advocates will say, that is a cease hole measure. It does not actually remedy the problems of worldwide migration or America’s damaged immigration system.
PJ Elliott:
I need to speak about what occurs when these asylum seekers get to a brand new metropolis, whether or not it is New York or Chicago or wherever. They’ve little cash, no job, most probably do not know anybody in these new cities that they get to. They’re actually ranging from zero. Are there any packages in these new cities to assist them out after they get off the bus?
Lauren Villagran:
It looks like it is actually sprung up in a grassroots manner, PJ. Town is offering shelter area, however such as you mentioned, individuals are stepping off the bus. What occurs? Proper now, there are a bunch of volunteers, simply common New Yorkers who’re exhibiting up at New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal each single day and greeting people who find themselves getting off the buses.
PJ Elliott:
So on the political facet of this, it is clearly been an enormous drawback for Democrats. What have they been doing to discourage asylum seekers from coming to the border?
Lauren Villagran:
I do know Vice President Kamala Harris had mentioned within the announcement of among the Biden administration’s plans final yr, “Do not come.” However that form of message, it will get misplaced within the cacophony of all the things that is happening within the nations that individuals are fleeing. So we are able to say, “Do not come,” all you need, however so long as America stays a beacon of freedom, a robust economic system, a spot that individuals see as one of many best nations on the earth, or as my grandfather would say, the best, individuals are going to return. And once you observe this household on their journey within the documentary that we have produced, you actually see what they have been via, and nobody makes that alternative frivolously.
Taylor Wilson:
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The Home Guidelines Committee held a historic listening to to think about seating the primary ever tribal delegate to Congress. PJ Elliott spoke with indigenous affairs reporter Molly Younger from The Oklahoman, a part of the USA TODAY Community, to seek out out extra.
Molly Younger:
So the Cherokee Nation has been working for 3 years now to train its treaty rights established via an 1835 treaty with the USA, the place Cherokee leaders on the time agreed to cede all of their homelands east of the Mississippi and transfer to what’s now Oklahoma. And one of many concessions that the federal authorities agreed to was to make sure that the Cherokee nation would have a voice in Congress. And that proper to a delegate has by no means been granted to the Cherokee nation, and that’s what they’re hoping to see, a delegate, in a short time.
PJ Elliott:
So why is that this occurring now and why did it take so lengthy?
Molly Younger:
The federal government’s stance on working with tribal nations didn’t take a flip till the final half century, the place the federal government began recognizing the rights of tribal nations in making an attempt to assist tribal nations rebuild themselves. And so the Cherokee’s story follows that path as effectively, the place they started to realize extra political energy within the Nineteen Seventies and have been constructing that since, each via financial growth as effectively. And that has led us to at present the place in 2019, they launched a marketing campaign to seat a delegate that was first granted in 1835.
PJ Elliott:
Molly, is the Cherokee nation seeing any opposition for a potential delegate into Congress? And for that matter, are different teams taking a look at methods to get their very own in.
Molly Younger:
So some lawmakers are questioning how the method would work to really seat the delegate. A delegate has by no means been appointed from a tribal nation, so there are questions on what that course of ought to seem like if it may be a easy home vote or if it must be a standalone legislation. After which individually, different tribal nations, 4 to this point, have pointed to their very own treaty rights and have mentioned, “If Congress strikes ahead to seat a Cherokee nation delegate, we consider we are also owed a delegate in Congress as effectively, primarily based on our treaty rights.”
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Taylor Wilson:
New Russian missile strikes this week have despatched a lot of Ukraine into darkness.
Sound: Explosion, frightened response of witnesses
Taylor Wilson:
That is the scene in Kherson, the place medics have needed to deal with victims of latest assaults largely at midnight. Ukraine recaptured the town two weeks in the past, however missiles killed 4 individuals there yesterday within the worst barrage since Russia’s withdrawal from the realm. Moscow’s missiles this week slammed the nation’s energy grid, and even the capital of Kyiv, at about 70% with out electrical energy as of yesterday.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine handed the 9 month mark yesterday, however many Ukrainians stay defiant that they are going to maintain out even with a troublesome winter approaching. 34 yr previous Alina Dubego instructed the AP, “No person will compromise their will and ideas only for electrical energy.” She mentioned she’d somewhat be with out energy than stay with the Russian invasion. However after all, Russian assaults usually are not simply hitting infrastructure. Ukrainian authorities mentioned seven individuals had been killed in Kyiv throughout yesterday’s strikes.
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Right this moment is Black Friday, a day when many Individuals will get up on the morning time to crowd into shops and snag these yearly offers for Christmas. However there’s one other solution to have a good time Black Friday, and based on the Reverend Billy and his Church of Cease Purchasing, that is to, effectively, not store.
Rev. Billy:
We began it opposing the Disney firm and sweatshops in Instances Sq.. Because the satirical Christian televangelist picked up steam, we went to Starbucks, and group gardens, and whoever requested us, after which steadily we developed a choir. Individuals began singing across the Reverend Billy character as he preached.
Taylor Wilson:
And the Cease Purchasing Choir was born.
Cease Purchasing Choir:
(singing)
Taylor Wilson:
It was a cool day in November when the Reverend Billy, his co-founder and director, Savitri D and the Cease Purchasing Choir gathered in Instances Sq. to unfold their message of anti-consumerism. The Reverend Billy character is the creation of actor and playwright Billy Talen. About 30 individuals at present sing within the choir, together with a number of skilled musicians and voice artists. Their road performances are a form of efficiency artwork.
Rev. Billy:
The Church of Cease Purchasing is about consumerism. The factor is, consumerism embraces the complete tradition. However through the years, steadily we swung over to the opposite finish of the spectrum of consumerism, which is after all local weather change. And now we’re 100% the Earth is the entire difficulty. There are numerous firms which are hurting the earth proper now. So we create invasive theater. Typically we get arrested, often we get away with it.
Cease Purchasing Choir:
(singing).
Rev. Billy performing:
Decelerate our consuming of fossil fuels!
Rev. Biilly
However the earth is so stunning and shifting, and it’s beneath assault by our economic system. And we would like the earth to stay. And if the earth lives, then perhaps we get to stay, too.
Taylor Wilson:
However the choir additionally sings professionally, and at golf equipment in New York and overseas. They see their music as a strong manner they get their message out. The Reverend Billy hopes that the group’s activism evokes others to struggle local weather change by altering how we stay.
Cease Purchasing Choir:
(singing)
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Taylor Wilson:
We instructed you yesterday in regards to the newest Christmas musical to hit theaters, however heaps extra will premiere on the earth of flicks this weekend. That features a observe as much as Knives Out, the hit 2019 thriller.
Clip from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller
Taylor Wilson:
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller follows a tech billionaire who invitations his longtime crew for a homicide thriller getaway. It stars Edward Norton and Daniel Craig, and is in theaters now. Or if Steven Spielberg is extra your factor, his semi-autobiographical drama, The Fabelmans, hits theaters.
Clip from The Fabelmans:
On this household, it is the scientists versus the artists. Sammy’s on my workforce. Takes after me.
Taylor Wilson:
And if you wish to simply stick with your sofa, The Girl King is now out there to lease.
Clip from The Girl King:
An evil is coming that threatens our kingdom, our freedom. However we’ve a weapon.
Taylor Wilson:
And you’ll find extra of what to observe this vacation weekend within the leisure part on USATODAY.com.
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