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The CBP One app aims to address that by telling migrants, hey, instead of coming all the way to Mexico and showing up at the border, just download this app and schedule an appointment to come here, and we'll vet you to see if you're eligible for asylum or not.
Another example of a policy in Washington DC that has like no reality in what's going on in the border because migrants live in shelters with really bad wifi access and they have crappy phones.
And the story I came out with last week was about how data from the Mexican government shows that at least in Tijuana, about 44% of every migrant who has gotten a CBP1 application to enter the country is a Russian national.
And Russian nationals make up at most 10% of the overall migrant population in Tijuana.
I mean, they talk about I think with Title 42, it's a clear example of immigration policy being decided in Washington and no one really from the border being involved or told what's going on.
So like I think it was last week, DHS Secretary Mayorkas did this press release about what they're doing in terms of
processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia.
So people can just go there instead of coming all the way to the border, which actually there have been timelines of when those will open.
But they don't talk about on the ground logistics.
So it's going to like we have this bottleneck of migration in Tijuana and all over the border because of Title 42 for the last three years, no one's been able to move.
Yeah, little water.
Yeah, yeah, we met up at a Target in my area, because I had already...
I thought that maybe I'll just grab some.
People would show up for donations and organize the toilet paper, food, everything like that.
And then they would give us the, they came back a couple hours later and give us the tape back and we'd match the names in the phone.
My name is Lon Chai.
I'm a part of Asian Solidarity Collective, a grassroots organization here in San Diego.