Transcripts For ALJAZ The Stream 2019 Ep 102 20240714 : comp

Desert our 1st stop is the village of la thai with thousands of migrants used to drink water from this well today military patrols are frequent and i. O. M. Team leader. Is told that cars with migrants no longer stop here. Soon were back on the road driving towards a nearby oasis called. It is known as a hiding place for migrants a desert ghetto. Once to show us something very disturbing. Few. Of them. Tend to do not really get off. The driver who took these migrants avoided the main roads but his car broke down after 3 days of walking the migrants arrived here. With you see did you do. You see im not. Sure if you know. If you were you afraid i was. Quite limited in your pic. Or. They think its a woman. Because of the nail polish on the toes. Most step migrans will never be found. The i. O. M. Estimates that more than twice as many migrants now die crossing the desert as in crossing the Mediterranean Sea she seen a few. 100. A kiss on. The. Smallest fish. Incredibly there is a well nearby. The migrants who died drank the water from the well too quickly. We set off again after a while stops our convoy. Seeing somebody whos waving at us. I dont know if you know. The mans car has broken down around 5 kilometers away when we get there the head of our military escort you dont have diarrhea himself inspects the vehicle. When youre searching the cars what are you looking for is. There because i wore gave the. South his you. Will help is already on the way and we leave these men to continue their journey. Our final destination is a place called mahfouz the last well before the border with libya its a place where i. O. M. Has previously found migrants in distress. Its a dangerous place where gangs and bandits i acted carrying weapons that matched those of our military escort. Does sites where to set up camp. Prosecute. It doesnt buy you a. Mini me. Dont suppose. At night the military stops to patrol and bandits and traffickers own the desert as we make our beds the guns are ready. The next morning we descend to the well. So the ground is still wet there were people here and really recently. They all go on through wildly every rock the word regime. If you include. It all. And i love fighting there where you go where the world where were almost there it is. Your b. G. In concord with your buffalo news here you are to me. Its time to start our long journey back to the a cool since october 2016 the i. O. M. Team has rescued nearly 900 migrants the overall number of africans transiting through may have gone down but the ones who still attend the desert crossing face a much more dangerous journey. Since our arrival india cooled weve heard complaints that the migration ban has damaged the local economy nearly every family used to make money from the migrant transport but now sales at the market have dropped and young men say they cant find employment and. We have heard today that crime is on the rise and to find out more we have a range to meet prosecutor mussa ibrahim. Or john ritter. In the regional courthouse he takes us to where the evidence is stored. These items were found by the military police less than a week earlier. Thats what thats hashish so. Lets just. Say it was so on. And yet. So this was found in a in a car that also had migraines and had to do all you want in the process of them dont salute your sister the police also seized weapons and ammunition some criminals seem to have a lot of firepower this is not just for self protection thats for serious fighting to do that. Yes it will for. The moment its something that of. Its citizens who feel the worst of this but its all of us that with the easy availability of weapons from libya mixed with growing local discontent about the loss of income has given rise to more crime the Prosecutor Says some drivers have become smugglers. And he. Did. It very much says hes been threatened with kidnap and even death people and that hes hoping for more security not just for himself but also for his young family. And security is where the e. U. Has been investing this is the Nigerian Police force demonstrating their new skills in the capital a new army that the world out there doubt that they have been trained by the e. U. Civilian security and Defense Mission otherwise known as you cap the occasion is the celebration of you cap 6 year in the country. Frank dunham aaron summarizes you cap successes and. You also this. Offer. You know yes. You could have came tunisia to stop the rise of Al Qaeda Affiliated groups who had gained a foothold in neighboring countries since then and you kept as trained around 12000 members of new shares Security Forces with specialist skills this man explains how drugs are trafficked all the you see a lot of it all for you that you thought all of it will be the organisers of a reception follows but we managed to pry you caps head of mission away for a quick question i want to know how worried he is about the impact of the migration ban that is not question of course so this is a good take of the jobs of our people of course when they start the blood the fight against migration there are efforts for the Business Development projects like and i guess they have they are not that visible as we want. It is estimated that since the introduction of the anti trafficking law agadez has lost over 100000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in income in response to e. U. Has spent 3100000. 00 financing projects that include training schemes and cash for work rebuilding our goddess all city but many feel its too little and too slow. Meanwhile the e. U. Funded Compensation Scheme for migration workers has come to a halt after less than 10 percent of successful applications received business start up kits. Weve come back to see businessmen mandelamine more sell at his compound to elders are voicing their grievances. Soon. Not going to be cute when a particular job is. Easy but the most i to do are for the name for the person to tbilisi. They show me lists of names. These are all drivers exam today is sadness only. To move well these are the 2 who drive us ok you know in paris you do companies out there didnt get any compensation. So excuse the 2 who have a theist reputation gained by fighting a series of rebellions against the Central Government some girlfriend you know more like. The little sheila killers are going to be. The elders say they have to calm their youth to want to whine to my pretties when they get in a bind usually i dont get in there and it was you know. But him were getting me the man say the discontent may create an opening for religious extremists obama. I would like. A little not a lot you know the one you know. Im the. Name of. The. Hunt with. The least of the mushroom but i would like it as a regular minimum season 5 of their fear is justified armed religious groups have already made inroads in other parts of me jack and i got to. See how president is while attempting that if you havent amor. And then you know. And i. Showed. Him from. The model of. If you do to the nose with. The e. U. Insist they are addressing this the highest representative in the share ambassador denise alien that you need to has granted us an interview is there the will in brussels to act fast but risks that some of the young people especially fall in the that are tracked up by extremist movements and theyre finitely. We need to move we need to move fast. When the renovation of the old city was completed ambassador you need to visit it agadez she says the e. U. Is also looking at new development on a far bigger scale we are working on lets say the next generation off corporation which is using our resources as seed money for attracting the private sector offering gore and hes not to say about the fact that we are providing the ground part of big infrastructure or financing for big infrastructure works eats up a couple lies there for sort of their economic activity. Back at the barrier that marks the exit from the gods inspecting travel documents we are told its because were filming and that the checks are usually a lot less thorough. But one man may have slipped through which country are you from. What. You. Want to. Come back or are you going back to libya. I leave this out of it good luck. Hes off before we can ask about his documents. As long as migrants want to travel there will always be someone prepared to take. The real challenge lies in addressing the root causes of migration not just in transit countries like malaysia air but in the migrants home countries to me. Until then made those who still decide to travel to be safe. Across china millions of cameras a watching citizens every move and score their behavior one i want to east investigates china is so violence cracked down on how does the. New yorkers are very receptive to aljazeera because it is such an International City theyre very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides in the year 1271 and again the taliban much to set out on an extraordinary journey carrying letters from the public for the great kugler cause marco polo traveled through little meetings following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond today chasing the shadow of professor shahs top of china to venice with searching questions of how the relationship between east and west has changed. Marco polo. On aljazeera. 0. 00 and welcome to the news hour on friday back to board in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes Libyan Forces opposed to war no time before have tossed say they have recaptured a town from his fighters south of the capital. The drowning of a father and his little Girl Found Dead in each others arms fox more outrage over u. S. Immigration policies also this hour palestinian stand firm in their opposition to an economic peace plan saying white house advisor jared push now has it all wrong and a warning with a stain on its tail about the declining number of insects. Thank you for joining us forces to libyas u. N. Recognized government say they have retaken the town of gori on more than 80 kilometers south of the capital tripoli from forces loyal to warlord tidy but have tossed fighters say they still have control of gary on where he serves as one of their main bases of operation and losing it would be a big setback for their 12 Week Campaign to seize tripoli have ties allied with a rival administration based in the eastern city of took algiers mahmoud ive done what i had has the latest from tripoli. The city of that about 80 kilometers to the south was from the capital tripoli has finally fallen into the hands of forces loyal to the e. U. And it could nice to government of National Accord the city of his various threats you dick as it has been used as a supporting help alongside the city of that huna for have to his forces fighting the Government Forces in southern tripoli forces loyal to the warlord 24 have to have taken control of the city for the past 3 months and now after losing the house was drawn to the town of us harbor which is in the west in the south of the very end military sources where the government say that dozens of have forces were killed in the battle for you today while also say that they have taken control of us throughout egypt luke asians in cite the city of libya and including the Central Command of have to his forces that has been used to run the battles in southern tripoli we know that the battle for tripoli the military Campaign Launched by have to his forces to take control of the capital tripoli started from the city of mosul from the city of horner it seems to be a major setback for have to as forces as they now have only one city and the worst of libya supporting them in the military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli meanwhile in southern to paly have to his forces have been losing strategic locations in civil axes including in active International Airport and also in neighborhoods in the southern in the western in the southern the western part of the capital and also in the eastern and southern part of the capital tripoli including. A little for a journey of what holds lets speak now to Jonathan Winer whos a scholar at the middle. Since issued and a former u. S. Special envoy to libya is via skype from washington thank you so much for being with us on aljazeera how significant would the capture of gharyan by libyan Government Forces be if confirmed do you think it would mark a turning point in the fight for tripoli well its hard to know what a turning point 2 of the forces have been frozen in place with no one winning or losing territory now for several months so you have troops a very Big Development baryons a major. Has a population of nearly 200008 its not a small place it should hugely been significant so its a big loss for general after his forces if thats whats happened but no one is going to win by conquest thats not right at the offensive on tripoli was no doubt a high stakes gamble for heidi for have tague but his march on the capital as you say doesnt seem to have what topped the plan dead what do you think were his motivations in attacking tripoli in the 1st place instead of capsulize in on the gains he had made in the east it was always been in his head and he told me this more or less when i met with him in 2016 is that he wants to take to be a part of western nation he doesnt really want to participate in the political elite doesnt want to be subject to anyone who wants to be the 1st designers to him he tends to be a dictator subject to no Political Force of any kind of whatsoever without any politicians actually having any power thats his vision its the gadhafi his have the super khadafi did he had a coup after was part of the gadhafi will his family was slated to all after him and i think thats what we have to watch for himself and his fellow you say doesnt want a political settlement and yet he has the backing of a lot of countries not just in the region but also European Countries are they aware of his intentions and you know when they talk of libya needing a political settlement is it just talk. Well i think people have been trying to convince him now for a very long time to a Group Political arrangements in which he was part of a unified a National Libyan force with others participating in it and some kind of military council under civilian authority and he has repeatedly rejected that form and has used the political negotiations to elevate his staff his stature and his presence by recognizing this was i have stayed with that spark and he then undertook this attack i think with the fantasy that western libya where fall mediately just surrender surrender and be stampeded by his attack thats not happen i dont think its going to happen having him run the country its not going to be in the interest of people who want to share in power and want to see libya this excepts comparables which i mean the country has a stake in the share of the u. N. Special envoy for libya sodomy has him self admitted that the International Community has been helpless ineffective when it comes to solving this crisis why do you think that is and do you think a political settlement to the crisis is still possible. Well in the end libyans are going to have to decide their fate not foreigners were foreigners need to be doing is unified in support of political its and thats been the case for some years in general orders of burma but have are exploited the concerns by egypt the emirates saudis the jordanians about whether Muslim Brotherhood would be in church in the west and use that as well as the support of some people in the east village they didnt get a fair shake and. To try and create this a certain movements to reject a Government National board and to replace it with general after its not realistic its never been used there needs to be a deal in which every libyan has a stake. Thank you so much for talking to us and sharing your views with us Jonathan Winer former u. S. Special envoy to libya joining us from washington thank you for your time iraq and for libyan families in the United States says suing highly for have time for alleged war crimes they say relatives died in attacks carried on by its forces have ties the u. S. Citizen which makes him subject to american laws on will crimes the families are demanding 125000000. 00 in damages and compensation in other world news shocking photographs of a father and his young daughter who drowned while attempting to enter the u. S. Have spocks anguish and outrage around the world dol thomas political enemies have been quick to blame the president s hardline immigration policies though accuses democrats of allowing the migration crisis to escalate and warning john hollins report contains disturbing images from the outset. A final embrace thats a track to International Attention to the dangers that Central Americans face on their way to the United States this is Oscar Martinez and his 23 month old daughter. They died last weekend in the rio grande the river that separates mexico and the United States journalists who nearly duke found their bodies. In extent in my working it was something that moved me deeply because it showed that up until her last breath she was joined to him not only by the shots but also in that embrace in which they passed together into death. Martinas was from el salvador and he was crossing with his bike tucked inside his t. Shirt when they were swept away by strong currents his wife was waiting on the mets can side of the shoreline and survive. Something bad like this happen before you see the river and it appears very calm i think thats why the father cutie could cross at the rio grande has a lot of deep powerful currents downstream earlier this month mexico agreed to tighten its southern border with guatemala of the Mediterranean Sea<\/a> she seen a few. 100. A kiss on. The. Smallest fish. Incredibly there is a well nearby. The migrants who died drank the water from the well too quickly. We set off again after a while stops our convoy. Seeing somebody whos waving at us. I dont know if you know. The mans car has broken down around 5 kilometers away when we get there the head of our military escort you dont have diarrhea himself inspects the vehicle. When youre searching the cars what are you looking for is. There because i wore gave the. South his you. Will help is already on the way and we leave these men to continue their journey. Our final destination is a place called mahfouz the last well before the border with libya its a place where i. O. M. Has previously found migrants in distress. Its a dangerous place where gangs and bandits i acted carrying weapons that matched those of our military escort. Does sites where to set up camp. Prosecute. It doesnt buy you a. Mini me. Dont suppose. At night the military stops to patrol and bandits and traffickers own the desert as we make our beds the guns are ready. The next morning we descend to the well. So the ground is still wet there were people here and really recently. They all go on through wildly every rock the word regime. If you include. It all. And i love fighting there where you go where the world where were almost there it is. Your b. G. In concord with your buffalo news here you are to me. Its time to start our long journey back to the a cool since october 2016 the i. O. M. Team has rescued nearly 900 migrants the overall number of africans transiting through may have gone down but the ones who still attend the desert crossing face a much more dangerous journey. Since our arrival india cooled weve heard complaints that the migration ban has damaged the local economy nearly every family used to make money from the migrant transport but now sales at the market have dropped and young men say they cant find employment and. We have heard today that crime is on the rise and to find out more we have a range to meet prosecutor mussa ibrahim. Or john ritter. In the regional courthouse he takes us to where the evidence is stored. These items were found by the military police less than a week earlier. Thats what thats hashish so. Lets just. Say it was so on. And yet. So this was found in a in a car that also had migraines and had to do all you want in the process of them dont salute your sister the police also seized weapons and ammunition some criminals seem to have a lot of firepower this is not just for self protection thats for serious fighting to do that. Yes it will for. The moment its something that of. Its citizens who feel the worst of this but its all of us that with the easy availability of weapons from libya mixed with growing local discontent about the loss of income has given rise to more crime the Prosecutor Says<\/a> some drivers have become smugglers. And he. Did. It very much says hes been threatened with kidnap and even death people and that hes hoping for more security not just for himself but also for his young family. And security is where the e. U. Has been investing this is the Nigerian Police<\/a> force demonstrating their new skills in the capital a new army that the world out there doubt that they have been trained by the e. U. Civilian security and Defense Mission<\/a> otherwise known as you cap the occasion is the celebration of you cap 6 year in the country. Frank dunham aaron summarizes you cap successes and. You also this. Offer. You know yes. You could have came tunisia to stop the rise of Al Qaeda Affiliated<\/a> groups who had gained a foothold in neighboring countries since then and you kept as trained around 12000 members of new shares Security Forces<\/a> with specialist skills this man explains how drugs are trafficked all the you see a lot of it all for you that you thought all of it will be the organisers of a reception follows but we managed to pry you caps head of mission away for a quick question i want to know how worried he is about the impact of the migration ban that is not question of course so this is a good take of the jobs of our people of course when they start the blood the fight against migration there are efforts for the Business Development<\/a> projects like and i guess they have they are not that visible as we want. It is estimated that since the introduction of the anti trafficking law agadez has lost over 100000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in income in response to e. U. Has spent 3100000. 00 financing projects that include training schemes and cash for work rebuilding our goddess all city but many feel its too little and too slow. Meanwhile the e. U. Funded Compensation Scheme<\/a> for migration workers has come to a halt after less than 10 percent of successful applications received business start up kits. Weve come back to see businessmen mandelamine more sell at his compound to elders are voicing their grievances. Soon. Not going to be cute when a particular job is. Easy but the most i to do are for the name for the person to tbilisi. They show me lists of names. These are all drivers exam today is sadness only. To move well these are the 2 who drive us ok you know in paris you do companies out there didnt get any compensation. So excuse the 2 who have a theist reputation gained by fighting a series of rebellions against the Central Government<\/a> some girlfriend you know more like. The little sheila killers are going to be. The elders say they have to calm their youth to want to whine to my pretties when they get in a bind usually i dont get in there and it was you know. But him were getting me the man say the discontent may create an opening for religious extremists obama. I would like. A little not a lot you know the one you know. Im the. Name of. The. Hunt with. The least of the mushroom but i would like it as a regular minimum season 5 of their fear is justified armed religious groups have already made inroads in other parts of me jack and i got to. See how president is while attempting that if you havent amor. And then you know. And i. Showed. Him from. The model of. If you do to the nose with. The e. U. Insist they are addressing this the highest representative in the share ambassador denise alien that you need to has granted us an interview is there the will in brussels to act fast but risks that some of the young people especially fall in the that are tracked up by extremist movements and theyre finitely. We need to move we need to move fast. When the renovation of the old city was completed ambassador you need to visit it agadez she says the e. U. Is also looking at new development on a far bigger scale we are working on lets say the next generation off corporation which is using our resources as seed money for attracting the private sector offering gore and hes not to say about the fact that we are providing the ground part of big infrastructure or financing for big infrastructure works eats up a couple lies there for sort of their economic activity. Back at the barrier that marks the exit from the gods inspecting travel documents we are told its because were filming and that the checks are usually a lot less thorough. But one man may have slipped through which country are you from. What. You. Want to. Come back or are you going back to libya. I leave this out of it good luck. Hes off before we can ask about his documents. As long as migrants want to travel there will always be someone prepared to take. The real challenge lies in addressing the root causes of migration not just in transit countries like malaysia air but in the migrants home countries to me. Until then made those who still decide to travel to be safe. Across china millions of cameras a watching citizens every move and score their behavior one i want to east investigates china is so violence cracked down on how does the. New yorkers are very receptive to aljazeera because it is such an International City<\/a> theyre very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides in the year 1271 and again the taliban much to set out on an extraordinary journey carrying letters from the public for the great kugler cause marco polo traveled through little meetings following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond today chasing the shadow of professor shahs top of china to venice with searching questions of how the relationship between east and west has changed. Marco polo. On aljazeera. 0. 00 and welcome to the news hour on friday back to board in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes Libyan Forces<\/a> opposed to war no time before have tossed say they have recaptured a town from his fighters south of the capital. The drowning of a father and his little Girl Found Dead<\/a> in each others arms fox more outrage over u. S. Immigration policies also this hour palestinian stand firm in their opposition to an economic peace plan saying white house advisor jared push now has it all wrong and a warning with a stain on its tail about the declining number of insects. Thank you for joining us forces to libyas u. N. Recognized government say they have retaken the town of gori on more than 80 kilometers south of the capital tripoli from forces loyal to warlord tidy but have tossed fighters say they still have control of gary on where he serves as one of their main bases of operation and losing it would be a big setback for their 12 Week Campaign<\/a> to seize tripoli have ties allied with a rival administration based in the eastern city of took algiers mahmoud ive done what i had has the latest from tripoli. The city of that about 80 kilometers to the south was from the capital tripoli has finally fallen into the hands of forces loyal to the e. U. And it could nice to government of National Accord<\/a> the city of his various threats you dick as it has been used as a supporting help alongside the city of that huna for have to his forces fighting the Government Forces<\/a> in southern tripoli forces loyal to the warlord 24 have to have taken control of the city for the past 3 months and now after losing the house was drawn to the town of us harbor which is in the west in the south of the very end military sources where the government say that dozens of have forces were killed in the battle for you today while also say that they have taken control of us throughout egypt luke asians in cite the city of libya and including the Central Command<\/a> of have to his forces that has been used to run the battles in southern tripoli we know that the battle for tripoli the military Campaign Launched<\/a> by have to his forces to take control of the capital tripoli started from the city of mosul from the city of horner it seems to be a major setback for have to as forces as they now have only one city and the worst of libya supporting them in the military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli meanwhile in southern to paly have to his forces have been losing strategic locations in civil axes including in active International Airport<\/a> and also in neighborhoods in the southern in the western in the southern the western part of the capital and also in the eastern and southern part of the capital tripoli including. A little for a journey of what holds lets speak now to Jonathan Winer<\/a> whos a scholar at the middle. Since issued and a former u. S. Special envoy to libya is via skype from washington thank you so much for being with us on aljazeera how significant would the capture of gharyan by libyan Government Forces<\/a> be if confirmed do you think it would mark a turning point in the fight for tripoli well its hard to know what a turning point 2 of the forces have been frozen in place with no one winning or losing territory now for several months so you have troops a very Big Development<\/a> baryons a major. Has a population of nearly 200008 its not a small place it should hugely been significant so its a big loss for general after his forces if thats whats happened but no one is going to win by conquest thats not right at the offensive on tripoli was no doubt a high stakes gamble for heidi for have tague but his march on the capital as you say doesnt seem to have what topped the plan dead what do you think were his motivations in attacking tripoli in the 1st place instead of capsulize in on the gains he had made in the east it was always been in his head and he told me this more or less when i met with him in 2016 is that he wants to take to be a part of western nation he doesnt really want to participate in the political elite doesnt want to be subject to anyone who wants to be the 1st designers to him he tends to be a dictator subject to no Political Force<\/a> of any kind of whatsoever without any politicians actually having any power thats his vision its the gadhafi his have the super khadafi did he had a coup after was part of the gadhafi will his family was slated to all after him and i think thats what we have to watch for himself and his fellow you say doesnt want a political settlement and yet he has the backing of a lot of countries not just in the region but also European Countries<\/a> are they aware of his intentions and you know when they talk of libya needing a political settlement is it just talk. Well i think people have been trying to convince him now for a very long time to a Group Political<\/a> arrangements in which he was part of a unified a National Libyan<\/a> force with others participating in it and some kind of military council under civilian authority and he has repeatedly rejected that form and has used the political negotiations to elevate his staff his stature and his presence by recognizing this was i have stayed with that spark and he then undertook this attack i think with the fantasy that western libya where fall mediately just surrender surrender and be stampeded by his attack thats not happen i dont think its going to happen having him run the country its not going to be in the interest of people who want to share in power and want to see libya this excepts comparables which i mean the country has a stake in the share of the u. N. Special envoy for libya sodomy has him self admitted that the International Community<\/a> has been helpless ineffective when it comes to solving this crisis why do you think that is and do you think a political settlement to the crisis is still possible. Well in the end libyans are going to have to decide their fate not foreigners were foreigners need to be doing is unified in support of political its and thats been the case for some years in general orders of burma but have are exploited the concerns by egypt the emirates saudis the jordanians about whether Muslim Brotherhood<\/a> would be in church in the west and use that as well as the support of some people in the east village they didnt get a fair shake and. To try and create this a certain movements to reject a Government National<\/a> board and to replace it with general after its not realistic its never been used there needs to be a deal in which every libyan has a stake. Thank you so much for talking to us and sharing your views with us Jonathan Winer<\/a> former u. S. Special envoy to libya joining us from washington thank you for your time iraq and for libyan families in the United States<\/a> says suing highly for have time for alleged war crimes they say relatives died in attacks carried on by its forces have ties the u. S. Citizen which makes him subject to american laws on will crimes the families are demanding 125000000. 00 in damages and compensation in other world news shocking photographs of a father and his young daughter who drowned while attempting to enter the u. S. Have spocks anguish and outrage around the world dol thomas political enemies have been quick to blame the president s hardline immigration policies though accuses democrats of allowing the migration crisis to escalate and warning john hollins report contains disturbing images from the outset. A final embrace thats a track to International Attention<\/a> to the dangers that Central Americans<\/a> face on their way to the United States<\/a> this is Oscar Martinez<\/a> and his 23 month old daughter. They died last weekend in the rio grande the river that separates mexico and the United States<\/a> journalists who nearly duke found their bodies. In extent in my working it was something that moved me deeply because it showed that up until her last breath she was joined to him not only by the shots but also in that embrace in which they passed together into death. Martinas was from el salvador and he was crossing with his bike tucked inside his t. Shirt when they were swept away by strong currents his wife was waiting on the mets can side of the shoreline and survive. Something bad like this happen before you see the river and it appears very calm i think thats why the father cutie could cross at the rio grande has a lot of deep powerful currents downstream earlier this month mexico agreed to tighten its southern border with guatemala of the President Donald Trump<\/a> threaten to impose tariffs on mits can goods critics say the new measures have led to migrants taking even more dangerous and dice related routes but theres also Something Else<\/a> thats happening in the last year or so weve seen a record surge in the number of people traveling with children to the United States<\/a> 12 for asylum many of them of doing that because theyve been told that if they ask for asylum as a family theres more chance that theyll be released well into the United States<\/a> at least for that process plays out but things have now changed and people that are all skiing for asylum in the United States<\/a> and now being put back into mexico while that process takes place traveling with children made no longer be an advantage and as word spreads that may mean the migration dynamic alters again but the most desperate to escape in demick poverty or violence in their homelands and still keep coming and john joins us now live from tijuana mexico near the u. S. Border john chilling photographs that sponsor a lot of outrage why are more families making this dangerous journey to the u. S. They were actually right next to the border will that say that this is mexico thats United States<\/a> on the other side as we talked about a little bit in the report over the last year was so theres been a really record in the number of families people taking children to the United States<\/a> weve got you had the opportunity to talk quite to quite a few of them over the past year most of them have just told us really that with a minor its more likely that once they get across the u. S. An oscar for asylum theyll be set free as a family while the asylum process concludes not to commit that they can be free in the United States<\/a> for months or even years but thats no changing that is applying could remain in mexico its been known and in that plan the United States<\/a> any Asylum Seekers<\/a> crossover for asylum that theyre now sending them back to mexico while they wait for the asylum process to conclude again that can take quite a long time theres already been more than 14000 people sent back across the border into mexico weve met with a few of the last few days some of them with their families as well that basically been dumped on the street here in tijuana and they dont really know what theyre going to do you have to appreciate as well that this border to mexico is one of the most dangerous areas of the country that","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia903005.us.archive.org\/23\/items\/ALJAZ_20190627_043200_The_Stream_2019_Ep_102\/ALJAZ_20190627_043200_The_Stream_2019_Ep_102.thumbs\/ALJAZ_20190627_043200_The_Stream_2019_Ep_102_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240716T12:35:10+00:00"}