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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

a phone app for asylum.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

And on paper, it kind of makes sense, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

Instead of like, you know, Joe Biden and the Dems are really terrified of the optics of a lot of people at the border.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

And a lot of their policy is revolved around stopping that.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

They don't want masses of people at the border.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

And Russian nationals make up at most 10% of the overall migrant population in Tijuana.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

So like I think it was last week, DHS Secretary Mayorkas did this press release about what they're doing in terms of

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

But they don't talk about on the ground logistics.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

Yeah, little water.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

One chocolate.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

Nothing else.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

Yeah, yeah, we met up at a Target in my area, because I had already...