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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    As border agents leave migrants stranded, volunteers step in to help

    Migrants are overwhelming detention centers along the border, so Customs and Border Protection officers are putting some of them on buses and dropping them off sometimes hundreds of miles away.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 22, 2019 • 1 min read

    Migrants are overwhelming detention centers along the border, so Customs and Border Protection officers are putting some of them on buses and dropping them off sometimes hundreds of miles away. Hundreds are coming per day at bus stops and churches in the Inland Empire. That leaves immigrant rights advocates and churches scrambling to help them.

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    Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing has some raising alarms
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    3. 28:57How celebrity Mexican chef Gabriela Cámara came up with her famous tuna tostada
    4. 44:13California garlic farmers benefit from US-China trade war
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      Madeleine Brand

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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing has some raising alarms
    1. 0:00Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán on Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing
    2. 19:07As border agents leave migrants stranded, volunteers step in to helpYou’re reading this
    3. 28:57How celebrity Mexican chef Gabriela Cámara came up with her famous tuna tostada
    4. 44:13California garlic farmers benefit from US-China trade war
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