Encampment: Introduction to Asylum Seeking and Refugees

This is a new series documenting the recent trip co-host, Dr. Justin Bullock, and podcast producer, Faith Dingas, took to the U.S. - Mexico border. Accompanied by a team led by former Bush School student, Mary Lu Hare, the Uncorked crew worked alongside Team Brownsville and World Central Kitchen to help feed refugees at the encampment in Matamoros, Mexico. The purpose of this series is to examine the current refugee and asylum seeking processes, along with providing commentary and interviews of what on the ground operations look like. In this first installment, Dr. Bullock sits and explains the current policies implemented by the United States government. The focus is on understanding the process by which refugees and asylum seekers are expected to undergo, along with statistics on who is being let in. Sources for the episode can be found at: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/12/us-remain-mexico-program-harming-children# https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/refugees-asylees https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/refugees