You're welcome Neil.

Welcome, Neil. This is hell.

Yes.

Is hell.

Manufacturing descent since 1996. This is hell. We live in different worlds, completely different realities. We hear it all

of the time, it's repeated so frequently, that we're led to believe that even our neighbor might live in a world

that exists entirely separate from our own. If we believe that's the case with the person who lives right next

door, imagine how we must feel about the people who live on the other

side of the planet from us. Their reality must have nothing to do with ours at all which

negates any impact our actions may have on their lives or their actions may have on ours.

But in fact, ideas born out of the United States lead to government policies and business models that are then exported globally.

Those policies and models often prioritizing profit over everything else can have a devastating

impact on the ground where they are implemented. That devastation

can lead its victims to flee for their lives. That flight then turns into a mass

migration and often that exodus if you will ends up at the southern border of the United States, which is deep in crisis.

Today, very much, today we very, sorry, today we will be talking about that interconnectedness how we are very much in the same world

when we discuss the border crisis facing farmers fleeing India due to the US model of industrial agriculture.

Our guest today will be Tan Vy Misra who posted the Baffler article,

Broader Criscies.

Indian border crossers illuminate the interconnectedness of mass migration.

Tanvi is a freelance writer and multimedia journalist who covers migration,

urban policy, and criminal justice as

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