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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.52,0:00:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twice a week,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.98,0:00:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I drive from my home near Tijuana, Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.52,0:00:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the US border,\Nto my office in San Diego.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.70,0:00:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stark contrast between the poverty\Nand desperation on one side of the border
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.88,0:00:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the conspicuous wealth on the other
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.76,0:00:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always feels jarring.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.47,0:00:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what makes this contrast\Nfeel even starker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.23,0:00:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is when I pass by the building\Nthat those of us who work on the border
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.54,0:00:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unaffectionately refer to\Nas the black hole.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.88,0:00:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The black hole is the Customs\Nand Border Protection,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.34,0:00:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or CBP facility,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.66,0:00:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the San Ysidro port of entry,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.49,0:00:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right next to a luxury outlet mall.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.90,0:00:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also where, at any one time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.100,0:00:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's likely 800 immigrants
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.82,0:00:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,locked in freezing, filthy,\Nconcrete cells below the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.61,0:00:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Up top: shopping bags and frappuccinos.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.32,0:00:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Downstairs: the reality\Nof the US immigration system.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.12,0:00:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's where, one day\Nin September of 2018,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.24,0:00:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself trying to reach Anna,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.49,0:00:56.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a woman who CBP had recently separated\Nfrom her seven-year-old son.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.10,0:00:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm an immigration attorney
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.44,0:01:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the policy and litigation director\Nof Al Otro Lado,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.24,0:01:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a binational nonprofit helping immigrants\Non both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.98,0:01:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'd met Anna several weeks earlier\Nat our Tijuana office,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.21,0:01:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she explained that she feared\Nshe and her son would be killed in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.22,0:01:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we prepared her for the process\Nof turning herself over to CBP
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.90,0:01:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ask for asylum.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.11,0:01:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few days after she'd gone\Nto the port of entry to ask for help,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.36,0:01:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we received a frantic phone call
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.97,0:01:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from her family members\Nin the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.39,0:01:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telling us that CBP officials\Nhad taken Anna's son from her.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.36,0:01:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, not that this should matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.27,0:01:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I knew that Anna's son\Nhad special needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.82,0:01:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once again,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.100,0:01:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this news filled me with the sense\Nof panic and foreboding
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.77,0:01:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has unfortunately become\Na hallmark of my daily work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.02,0:01:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a signed authorization\Nto act as Anna's attorney,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.98,0:01:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I rushed over to the port of entry
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.01,0:01:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see if I could speak with my client.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.26,0:01:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only would CBP officials\Nnot let me speak to Anna,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.37,0:01:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they wouldn't even tell me\Nif she was there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.06,0:01:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went from supervisor to supervisor,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.29,0:02:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begging to submit evidence\Nof Anna's son's special needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.50,0:02:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but no one would even\Ntalk to me about the case.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.13,0:02:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It felt surreal to watch\Nthe shoppers strolling idly by
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.26,0:02:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what felt like a life-and-death situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.49,0:02:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After several hours\Nof being stonewalled by CBP,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.53,0:02:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.94,0:02:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several days later,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.12,0:02:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found Anna's son\Nin the foster-care system.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.73,0:02:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I didn't know what happened to Anna
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.78,0:02:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until over a week later,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.16,0:02:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when she turned up\Nat a detention camp a few miles east.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.46,0:02:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Anna didn't have a criminal record,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.90,0:02:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she followed the law\Nwhen asking for asylum.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.70,0:02:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still, immigration officials\Nheld her for three more months,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.38,0:02:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until we could win her release
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.27,0:02:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help her reunify with her son.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.89,0:02:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anna's story is not\Nthe only story I could tell you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.19,0:02:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Mateo, an 18-month-old boy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.06,0:02:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was ripped from his father's arms
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.15,0:02:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sent to a government shelter\Nthousands of miles away,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.86,0:02:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they failed\Nto properly bathe him for months.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.80,0:02:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Amadou,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.99,0:02:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unaccompanied African child,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.69,0:02:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was held with adults for 28 days\Nin CBP's horrific facilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.58,0:03:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most disturbingly, there's Maria,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.82,0:03:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pregnant refugee who begged\Nfor medical attention for eight hours
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.13,0:03:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before she miscarried in CBP custody.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.93,0:03:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CBP officials held her\Nfor three more weeks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.01,0:03:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before they sent her back to Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.09,0:03:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she is being forced to wait months
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.05,0:03:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for an asylum hearing\Nin the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.33,0:03:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeing these horrors\Nday in and day out has changed me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.68,0:03:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to be fun at parties,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.76,0:03:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now, I inevitably\Nfind myself telling people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.37,0:03:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how our government\Ntortures refugees at the border
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.27,0:03:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the detention camps.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.29,0:03:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, people try to change the subject
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.10,0:03:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and congratulate me for the great work\NI'm doing in helping people like Anna.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.51,0:03:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't know\Nhow to make them understand
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.62,0:03:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that unless they start fighting,\Nharder than they ever thought possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.20,0:03:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't know which of us\Nwill be the next to suffer Anna's fate.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.34,0:03:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trump's mass separations\Nof refugee families
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.05,0:03:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the southern border
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.23,0:03:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shocked the conscience of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.02,0:03:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and woke many to the cruelties\Nof the US immigration system.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.31,0:04:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems like today,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.49,0:04:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more people than ever are involved\Nin the fight for immigrant rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.82,0:04:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But unfortunately, the situation\Nis just not getting better.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.75,0:04:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thousands protested\Nto end family separations,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.71,0:04:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the government\Nis still separating families.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.21,0:04:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than 900 children\Nhave been taken from their parents
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.07,0:04:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since June of 2018.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.19,0:04:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thousands more refugee children\Nhave been taken from their grandparents,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.06,0:04:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,siblings and other\Nfamily members at the border.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.85,0:04:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since 2017,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.46,0:04:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least two dozen people have died\Nin immigration custody.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.05,0:04:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And more will die, including children.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.01,0:04:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we lawyers can\Nand will keep filing lawsuits
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.41,0:04:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop the government\Nfrom brutalizing our clients,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.56,0:04:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we can't keep tinkering\Naround the edges of the law
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.29,0:04:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we want migrants\Nto be treated humanely.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.61,0:04:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This administration would have you believe\Nthat we have to separate families
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.74,0:04:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have to detain children,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.48,0:04:55.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it will stop more refugees\Nfrom coming to our borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.58,0:04:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we know that this isn't true.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.24,0:04:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, in 2019,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.17,0:05:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the number of apprehensions\Nat our southern border
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.60,0:05:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has actually gone up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.24,0:05:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we tell people\Nevery day at the border,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.37,0:05:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you seek asylum in the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.54,0:05:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you risk family separation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.24,0:05:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you risk being detained indefinitely."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.58,0:05:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for many of them,\Nthe alternative is even worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.86,0:05:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People seek refuge in the United States\Nfor a lot of different reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.00,0:05:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Tijuana, we've met refugees\Nfrom over 50 countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.96,0:05:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking 14 different languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.27,0:05:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet LGBT migrants\Nfrom all over the world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.20,0:05:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have never been in a country\Nin which they feel safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.42,0:05:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet women from all over the world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.35,0:05:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose own governments\Nrefuse to protect them
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.66,0:05:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from brutal domestic violence\Nor repressive social norms.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.62,0:05:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, we meet\NCentral American families
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.69,0:05:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are fleeing gang violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.51,0:05:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we also meet Russian dissidents,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.55,0:05:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Venezuelan activists,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.06,0:05:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christians from China, Muslims from China,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.04,0:05:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thousands and thousands\Nof other refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.46,0:05:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fleeing all types\Nof persecution and torture.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.56,0:06:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, a lot of these people\Nwould qualify as refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.13,0:06:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the international legal definition.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.87,0:06:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Refugee Convention\Nwas created after World War II
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.22,0:06:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give protection to people\Nfleeing persecution
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.09,0:06:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on their race, religion,\Nnationality, political opinion
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.55,0:06:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or membership\Nin a particular social group.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.12,0:06:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even those who would be refugees\Nunder the international definition
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.00,0:06:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not going to win asylum\Nin the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.83,0:06:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's because since 2017,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.05,0:06:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the US Attorneys General have made\Nsweeping changes to asylum law,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.13,0:06:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure that less people qualify\Nfor protection in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.47,0:06:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now these laws are mostly aimed\Nat Central Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.27,0:06:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and keeping them out of the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.12,0:06:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they affect other types\Nof refugees as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.50,0:06:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The result is that the US\Nfrequently deports refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.47,0:06:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their persecution and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.69,0:06:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US is also using detention\Nto try to deter refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.86,0:06:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make it harder for them\Nto win their cases.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.47,0:07:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, there are over 55,000 immigrants\Ndetained in the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.34,0:07:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many in remote detention facilities,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.82,0:07:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far from any type of legal help.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.58,0:07:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is very important.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.60,0:07:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's civil\Nand not criminal detention,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.64,0:07:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is no public defender system,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.94,0:07:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so most detained immigrants\Nare not going to have an attorney
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.86,0:07:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help them with their cases.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.77,0:07:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An immigrant who has an attorney
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.85,0:07:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is up to 10 times more likely\Nto win their case
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.89,0:07:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than one who doesn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.76,0:07:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you've seen, I hate\Nto be the bearer of bad news,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.89,0:07:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the situation is even worse\Nfor refugee families today
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.24,0:07:32.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than it was during family separation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.70,0:07:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since January of 2019,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.21,0:07:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the US has implemented a policy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.02,0:07:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's forced over 40,000 refugees\Nto wait in Mexico
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.06,0:07:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for asylum hearings in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.02,0:07:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These refugees, many of whom are families,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.87,0:07:49.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are trapped in some of the most\Ndangerous cities in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.02,0:07:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they're being raped, kidnapped
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.01,0:07:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and extorted by criminal groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.20,0:07:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they survive for long enough\Nto make it to their asylum hearing,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.84,0:08:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less than one percent of them\Nare able to find an attorney
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.20,0:08:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help them with their cases.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.36,0:08:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US government will point\Nto the lowest asylum approval rates
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.95,0:08:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to argue that these people\Nare not really refugees,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.48,0:08:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when in fact, US asylum law\Nis an obstacle course
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.21,0:08:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designed to make them fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.02,0:08:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now not every migrant\Nat the border is a refugee.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.99,0:08:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I meet plenty of economic migrants.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.10,0:08:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, people who want to go\Nto the United States to work,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.22,0:08:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pay medical bills for a parent
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.03,0:08:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or school fees for a child back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.70,0:08:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Increasingly, I'm also meeting\Nclimate refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.73,0:08:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In particular, I'm meeting\Na lot of indigenous Central Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.57,0:08:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who can no longer\Nsustain themselves by farming,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.34,0:08:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to catastrophic drought in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.06,0:08:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that today,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.82,0:08:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people are migrating\Nbecause of climate change,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.58,0:08:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that more will do so in the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.80,0:08:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we simply don't have a legal system\Nto deal with this type of migration.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.52,0:08:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it would make sense, as a start,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.86,0:08:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to expand the refugee definition
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.73,0:09:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to include climate refugees, for example.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.61,0:09:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But those of us in a position\Nto advocate for those changes
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.51,0:09:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are too busy suing our government
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.40,0:09:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep the meager legal protections\Nthat refugees enjoy under the current law.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.43,0:09:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are exhausted,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.49,0:09:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's almost too late to help.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.76,0:09:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we know now
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.94,0:09:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this isn't America's problem alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.24,0:09:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From Australia's brutal\Noffshore detention camps
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.51,0:09:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Italy's criminalization of aid\Nto migrants drowning in the Mediterranean,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.83,0:09:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first-world countries\Nhave gone to deadly lengths
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.66,0:09:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep refugees from reaching our shores.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.64,0:09:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they've done more\Nthan restrict the refugee definition.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.01,0:09:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've created parallel,\Nfascist-style legal systems
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.37,0:09:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which migrants have none of the rights\Nthat form the basis of a democracy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.49,0:09:48.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the alleged foundation of the countries\Nin which they're seeking refuge.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.78,0:09:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History shows us that the first group
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.74,0:09:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be vilified and stripped\Nof their rights is rarely the last,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.56,0:09:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many Americans and Europeans
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.08,0:10:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seem to accept an opaque\Nand unjust legal system for noncitizens,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.26,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they think they are immune.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.02,0:10:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But eventually,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.26,0:10:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these authoritarian ideals bleed over\Nand affect citizens as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.64,0:10:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned this firsthand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.17,0:10:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the US government placed me\Non an illegal watch list
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.20,0:10:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for my work helping\Nimmigrants at the border.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.41,0:10:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, in January of 2019,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.39,0:10:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was leaving my office in San Diego
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.32,0:10:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and crossing the border\Nto go back to my home in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.61,0:10:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mexican officials, although they had\Ngiven me a valid visa,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.94,0:10:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stopped me and told me\Nthat I couldn't enter the country
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.70,0:10:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because a foreign government\Nhad placed a travel alert on my passport,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.55,0:10:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designating me\Nas a national security risk.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.25,0:10:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was detained and interrogated\Nin a filthy room for hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.02,0:10:41.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I begged the Mexican officials
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.52,0:10:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to let me go back to Mexico\Nand pick up my son,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.41,0:10:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was only 10 months old at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.52,0:10:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they refused,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.70,0:10:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead, they turned me over\Nto CBP officials,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.16,0:10:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I was forced back\Ninto the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.93,0:10:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took me weeks to get another visa\Nso that I could go back to Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.43,0:11:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went to the border, visa in hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.09,0:11:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But again, I was detained and interrogated
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.16,0:11:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there was still\Na travel alert on my passport.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.60,0:11:06.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly after,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.90,0:11:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaked internal CBP documents
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.95,0:11:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confirmed that my own government
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.03,0:11:14.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been complicit in issuing\Nthis travel alert against me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.54,0:11:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since then, I haven't traveled\Nto any other countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.53,0:11:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm afraid I'll be detained
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.43,0:11:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deported from those countries as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.23,0:11:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These travel restrictions, detentions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.54,0:11:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and separation from my infant son
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.65,0:11:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are things I never thought\NI would experience as a US citizen,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.75,0:11:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm far from the only person\Nbeing criminalized for helping immigrants.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.73,0:11:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US and other countries\Nhave made it a crime to save lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.51,0:11:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those of us who are simply\Ntrying to do our jobs
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.47,0:11:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are being forced to choose\Nbetween our humanity and our freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.50,0:11:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the thing that makes me so desperate
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.43,0:11:49.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that all of you\Nare facing the same choice,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.02,0:11:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.55,0:11:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know there are\Ngood people out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.92,0:11:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw thousands of you in the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.86,0:11:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protesting family separation.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.27,0:12:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that largely helped\Nbring about an end to the official policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.59,0:12:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we know that the government\Nis still separating children.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.48,0:12:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And things are actually getting worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.55,0:12:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, the US government\Nis fighting for the right
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.39,0:12:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to detain refugee children\Nindefinitely in prison camps.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.54,0:12:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't over.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.98,0:12:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We cannot allow ourselves\Nto become numb or look away.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.08,0:12:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us who are citizens of countries
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.32,0:12:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose policies cause detention,\Nseparation and death,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.24,0:12:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to very quickly decide\Nwhich side we're on.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.40,0:12:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to demand that our laws respect\Nthe inherent dignity of all human beings,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.28,0:12:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially refugees\Nseeking help at our borders,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.61,0:12:41.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but including economic migrants\Nand climate refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.72,0:12:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to demand\Nthat refugees get a fair shot
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.52,0:12:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at seeking protection in our countries
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.70,0:12:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by ensuring that they have\Naccess to council
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.10,0:12:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by creating independent courts
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.95,0:12:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are not subject\Nto the political whims of the president.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.07,0:12:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it's overwhelming,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.87,0:13:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know this sounds cliché, but ...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.27,0:13:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to call\Nour elected representatives
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.75,0:13:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and demand these changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.09,0:13:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you've heard this before,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.70,0:13:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but have you made the call?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.61,0:13:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know these calls make a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.90,0:13:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dystopian immigration systems\Nbeing built up in first-world countries
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.66,0:13:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a test of citizens
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.25,0:13:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see how far you're willing\Nto let the government go
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.57,0:13:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in taking away other people's rights\Nwhen you think it won't happen to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.43,0:13:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you let the government\Ntake people's children
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.99,0:13:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without due process
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.65,0:13:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and detain people indefinitely\Nwithout access to council,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.86,0:13:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are failing the test.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.11,0:13:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's happening to immigrants now
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.30,0:13:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a preview of where we're all headed\Nif we fail to act.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.44,0:13:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.63,0:13:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)