-In the shadow of the US Capitol --
-Around 100 people are arriving every day.
-Men, women, children
from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
-As part of Governor Greg Abbott's plan
to put pressure on the White House.
-To protest what he calls
the Biden administration's open-borders policy.
-If they're not gonna come to the border,
I'm gonna take the border to them in Washington, DC.
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[children speaking Spanish]
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-Because of health, insecurity, hunger, and violence,
because of that situation, I
decided to leave Venezuela with my children.
[child speaking Spanish]
We walked for six days within the jungle
without eating and without having a bed to sleep in.
We slept outside in the open.
There are a lot of things inside the jungle.
It smelled like death.
There were snakes, tigers, monkeys,
and other dangerous animals.
In the jungle, I would say, "God, why did I come?"
but I'm already here and I cannot go back.
I would ask God for strength to get out of there
and would ask him to help me get out of there
because a lot of people stay behind in the jungle.
-DC has been receiving migrants almost on a daily basis
since late April,
as a result of the policies from Governor Abbott
and then Governor Ducey.
[indistinct conversations]
We get anywhere from one to four or five busses,
with a range from 20 to 50 people.
The migrants that are arriving are asylum seekers.
When they arrive here, as we see them come off the bus,
they look scared, but they feel welcome.
[indistinct conversations]
-Buenos días.
[speaking Spanish]
-DC, as any other city that's not in the border,
doesn't really know how to react.
My hope is that we're able to create
really, really good programs in the district
and the jurisdictions around
so that we can welcome these migrants.
My biggest worry is time.
With the ongoing influx of people coming in,
it doesn't always give me the time that I need
to build those programs.
So we're always on a very tight schedule, moving very fast.
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-When we crossed, they detained us for four days.
It took us three days to get here from Texas by bus.
We came to this place without having anyone,
absolutely no one.
-Ooh! [speaking Spanish]
[indistinct conversations]
-The volunteers treated us very well,
they took us to a place where we ate and rested a little.
My nephew and everyone else
say that we cannot believe that we are finally here
after walking for so long... two months of walking.
[children speaking Spanish]
[conversations in Spanish]
I feel good. I thank God because I was able to come here.
-[speaking Spanish]
-The first thing I would like is for my kids to start school
and then for me to get a job
and then be able to have a place that I can rent
and work and to have a life like everyone else has a life here.
Not just be here thinking where am I going to go tomorrow
or what is going to happen next.
-[speaking Spanish]
-I would just like to one day have some kind of stability,
an everyday life.
[speaks Spanish]
[singing in Spanish]
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