PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Unknown Speaker from Venezuela on Asylum Seeker Experience and Shelter Concerns
4:10:58
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4 min
A Venezuelan asylum seeker shared their difficult journey to the United States and expressed concerns about the 60-day shelter limit. The speaker highlighted the challenges of not having a work permit and the anxiety caused by potential relocation, especially with a child in school and winter approaching.
- The family, including a 4-year-old child, traveled through 9 countries to reach the US
- They are seeking asylum and currently do not have work permits
- The speaker emphasized their desire to work and pay taxes if given the opportunity
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
4:10:58
Good afternoon.
4:11:00
I'm from Venezuela.
4:11:06
To arrive to this country, I had to go through the jungle of Iran and 8 other countries.
4:11:17
With with my husband and my child of 4 years old and myself?
4:11:26
It wasn't easy to get here.
4:11:28
We lasted a month to get here.
4:11:38
And we decided to, we decided to come forward instead of waiting for the city for the appointment because we, thought we would not get anything in Mexico.
4:12:02
We got, from Matamoros, we, came forward and they treated us very well.
4:12:14
And and they gave us a checkup.
4:12:15
They gave us a checkup.
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And so we are here.
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We're applying for asylum.
4:12:32
We don't have no workers' permit, and I would like to have one.
4:12:44
We are afraid because of the 60 day, limit that we have at the shelters.
4:12:56
I have my child going to school nearby and the winter, the cold is coming.
4:13:01
So
UNKNOWN
4:13:04
Yes.
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
4:13:12
And that makes me anxious, and we would, we would love to get our worker permit so that we can move somewhere else.
4:13:27
So we would like we would love to be helped with that because so that we can work and pay taxes.
Alexa Avilés
4:13:34
Okay.
4:13:35
Gracias.
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
4:13:35
Okay.
4:13:36
Thank you.
Diana Ayala
4:13:39
Panelist number 3 is English speaker.
UNKNOWN
4:13:42
Okay.
4:13:42
Number 3.
4:13:43
That's it.
UNKNOWN
4:13:49
Good evening.
4:13:50
Hi.
4:13:51
Good evening.
4:13:55
I I come from Africa.
4:14:00
I have 2 children.
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I leave my husband with my 2 children, and I have a school.
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It's never in the circle.
4:14:08
The 6 days is give me a lot of stress because I don't know when I'm going to move.
4:14:14
I'll be far, or I gonna get again the room or not yet.
4:14:19
That's why I say, let me ask about to what is gonna be our picture.
4:14:26
I'm sorry.
4:14:28
How is gonna be our picture to be 6 days be going on?
4:14:34
I need in half from the government, and I'll let I'm sorry.
4:14:45
I so stress it because you only have 2 children, and they still need them when you don't need have anybody help you or something better.
4:14:53
It's so very tough.
4:14:54
That's why.
4:14:55
I don't know what I go even to say, but I mean to say the 6 days give us trouble and stress.
4:15:02
I want to be solution for that.
4:15:05
Thank you.
