Ryan Grim

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We're joined in studio this time by friend of the show, Juan David Rojas.

He's an independent journalist.

You can find his writing all the time over at Compact.

He had a big, big story about his work kind of as a social worker with people who had come during the Biden surge and were making asylum claims.

One, some big takeaways from the piece.

We want to talk about Claudia Scheinbaum.

We want to talk about some different things happening around Latin America.

Pete Hegseth is actually at Guantanamo Bay today.

But let's start just with some of the big picture takeaways that you had through your time spent actually working in this capacity with people who are trying to make asylum claims, who are trying to be here in the United States as long as possible during the Biden years.

What did you find out?

Yeah, so I worked as a social worker with what are called UCs, unaccompanied children.

Those are minors under the age of 18 who come to the border without parents or legal guardians.

And so they're held in a shelter and released to what are called sponsors, typically family members, but not always.

Sometimes distant relatives and sometimes even people who they're not related to in the slightest.

We should mention, by the way, people may be familiar with this from a huge New York Times story on Javier Becerra, who is making the runoff in the California governor's race, going to be against Steve Hilton.

This is a huge piece of baggage that Javier Becerra now comes in because while you were working in this capacity, New York Times did a deep dive on how many UCs ended up being unaccounted for.

So go on.