Earlier this month, President Biden implemented new border restrictions. We examine the impacts these changes are having on the San Diego-Tijuana border region. Plus, star soccer player Alex Morgan of San Diego Wave FC was left off the national team's Olympics roster.
S1: Welcome to KPBS roundtable. I'm Andrew Bracken. Earlier this month , President Biden took executive action to limit asylum along the US-Mexico border.
S2: It's like , you know , they're very vague terms like , uh , you know , more likely than not to suffer persecution when you return home. This is a lower standard than that. Um , for the initial screening , it gets very complicated. But bottom line is it's much harder to , um , to , to , to , to get that screening to pass that initial hurdle.
S2: Was , um , you know , going to Tijuana , um , several days after this order took effect to try to find Mexicans who were deported there. San Diego is one of the busiest , if not the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. And so I thought it would be very easy to find people who were deported. And it wasn't a lot , though the advocacy group put up a booth and information booth right at the border crossing , where and then we're seeing like maybe five people a day.
S3: You're you're hearing it right. The policy looks one way on paper , and it kind of sounds abstract. The idea that you raise the standard of proof , right. Those are words. They don't really mean anything , but they mean a lot to the women that Elliot you were talking to in that shelter in , in Sonora , I mean. Right , that's kind of the impact of this. They if they had crossed maybe six months ago , they would have faced a totally different process.
S3: I mean some of it are just innate , right. To having a smartphone. Do you have a good enough smartphone ? Do you have a smartphone of this generation that can access the app ? Um , do you have access to Wi-Fi and reliably so , um , the app is only available in three languages , right ? Spanish , English , and. Haitian Creole.
S2: I mean , as Gustavo pointed out , they've been very emphatic. Mayorkas repeated it yesterday that they're not raising the level from 101,450 a day , about 400 of those , I believe , for a little under 400 are through through San Isidro. Um , uh , you know , they do have an additional I believe it's like 150 slots about roughly per day along the border for sort of extremely dire situations , exceptions. So call it 1600 that , you know , are getting allowed in daily.
S1: Elliot mentioned this term policy whiplash. And Gustavo , you alluded to it a little earlier about how the Democratic Party is is , you know , handling immigration and how that's been shifted. S1: That's coming up after the break. You're listening to KPBS roundtable , I'm Andrew Bracken. Next month , the United States women's national soccer team heads to Paris seeking gold in the summer's Olympic Games. But for the first time in several Olympic Games , it'll do so without star player Alex Morgan.
S1: And you kind of alluded to this earlier , but this sort of idea of an aging superstar being replaced by younger mentors , it's a pretty common sports narrative. S1: Well , you mentioned , you know , Jill Ellis's history and pedigree in the sport of soccer. We do have a clip from the announcement of the coaching change. And here's what Jill Ellis , some of what Jill Ellis had to say then.
S1: And what are the prospects for this season ? We're a little more than halfway through this NWSL season. Um , and the wave are not there yet. I think earlier you mentioned there still is playoff possibilities here for this team.
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