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  1. Hi everybody.
  2. Um, as you all know, we have a really big day today
  3. and this is
  4. our briefing for emergency response for
  5. the wave of asylum seekers that are coming to the US Mexico border,
  6. um, and how we can best help them today.
  7. So as we know, they are escaping violence. Violence from their home countries.
  8. Many are from Mexico.
  9. But there are many others from Central America that have
  10. traveled thousands of miles to get to this border.
  11. We have no idea really what they've been through,
  12. but we do know that they're escaping violence
  13. in an autocratic
  14. government style, whether that be from the drug cartels or the government itself.
  15. We also know that here in the United States, um,
  16. we are not very welcoming to asylum seekers
  17. and immigrants from this part of the world.
  18. So we're here today to do what we can
  19. to help them
  20. and make sure that they are welcome, as welcome as they possibly can be.
  21. I do not get sent back.
  22. We don't want anybody to be put in camps. We are here to help them and get them
  23. put them on their best foot, best foot forward.
  24. So here's what we do want to do today, where we want to have a plan from the beginning.
  25. So, I know everybody has their plan.
  26. We need to reinforce the idea that these migrants are
  27. going to need our support for the long haul.
  28. So today is where it starts. It's not where it ends.
  29. We want to make sure that we clearly explain who you are and what you are doing.
  30. So what your role is every single move you make,
  31. I want to make sure that you know that you are to explain it to them.
  32. We want to be completely transparent
  33. to them.
  34. We want to be here to answer their questions. We don't want them to have questions
  35. about our motives.
  36. We need them to be able to trust us.
  37. And because that's how we're going to be able to help them the most.
  38. We also need to respect religious and cultural differences.
  39. Um, we are seeing a lot of
  40. catholic migrants, but that's not the only religion.
  41. These migrants will have to be culturally aware and sensitive.
  42. We also really need to understand that they have just experienced a men's trauma
  43. trauma from um,
  44. what they experienced in their home country that's caused them to flex to flee.
  45. And then also the trauma of the migration itself.
  46. So be empathetic to what they've gone through because we can't
  47. we can't even begin to imagine. Right?
  48. All right, So now what not to do?
  49. We do not give orders to these people. We are not their boss.
  50. We need to offer them all of their options and make
  51. sure that we're giving them the autonomy over what happens next.
  52. It was on Julia. We cannot make our migrants do anything
  53. that they don't want to do. We're going to give them all of their options.
  54. We can say what we think would be the best option.
  55. But we do not make any decisions for them.
  56. We also don't make any decisions without their consent.
  57. So
  58. if somebody is non verbal or
  59. possibly experiencing a medical emergency, we cannot make decisions for them.
  60. We are not the government.
  61. We are not
  62. in charge of them. We are here to help them.
  63. We also don't speak on behalf of their government ever. This is really, really huge.
  64. We are in the United States, we are not in Mexico, we are not in Guatemala.
  65. We are not in Honduras. We do not speak on behalf of their government.
  66. All right guys, let's go out there and really make a difference for these people.
  67. Okay. All right. Great job