187 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Immigration
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As part of a pre-election series, Stephanie Desmon talks with Dr. Paul Spiegel, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, and Katherine Narvaez, a Hopkins student and researcher and DACA recipient from Guatemala. They talk about Narvaez's experience as a "Dreamer" and what's at stake for her and other families who are at risk of separation and deportation. They also discuss the current administration's policies and erosion of pathways to citizenship, how migrants and refugees contribute to the US's economy, and how COVID-19 opened the door for much stricter immigration policies.
KEYWORDS: migration; policy; misinformation
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.8 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
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| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future |
| 0:47.2 | podcast episodes. Today, as part of our election series, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Paul |
| 0:53.5 | Spiegel, |
| 0:54.5 | director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, |
| 0:58.1 | and to Catherine Narvaez, an MPH MBA student and DACA recipient from Guatemala. |
| 1:04.7 | They talk about what's at stake in the election |
| 1:07.1 | when it comes to immigration. |
| 1:09.2 | Let's listen. |
| 1:10.6 | Catherine Narvaez and Paul Spiegel, |
| 1:12.3 | thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:13.5 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:14.5 | Pleasure. |
| 1:15.4 | So, Catherine, we're going to talk today |
| 1:17.3 | about what's at stake with the election and immigration. |
| 1:20.3 | And I'd like to start with you. |
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