4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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A repeat of our first show with the President of Voto Latino, Maria Teresa Kumar with a new timely intro. Al finally took a week off. Okay?!
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
0:11.1 | It's Thanksgiving week. |
0:13.1 | So we are replaying our interview with Maria Teresa Kumar because it's one of the rare great ones, one of the rare good ones, really. |
0:26.0 | And this was our first one that we aired. |
0:30.3 | And Maria Teresa is head of Voto Latino. |
0:34.7 | And she talks here about a number of things about voting, about voter suppression. |
0:42.7 | She talks a lot about the time we were doing this. |
0:45.6 | There was a lot of talk about the wall, about the wall and about status of migrants and kids. |
0:53.7 | And it is turned out that it is even worse than we thought NBC News came out with something |
1:00.7 | about a week ago. |
1:03.2 | 69,550 migrant children have been detained in the U.S. this year, away from their parents. |
1:15.9 | The piece starts off with a heartbreaking story where a dad was separated from his three-year-old daughter, |
1:26.3 | and by the time they get together, |
1:28.5 | she will not look at him. |
1:30.1 | She believes that he is responsible for them being separated, and this is trauma. |
1:38.1 | This is the kind of trauma that it is heartbreaking. |
1:42.9 | I have a three-year-old granddaughter, |
1:45.3 | and the idea of doing that to a three-year-old. |
1:51.5 | It's just horrible. |
1:53.8 | It's just horrible. |
1:55.0 | And, of course, I'll be having Thanksgiving dinner with her |
1:57.5 | and her six-year-old brother and her four-year-old cousin and her seven-month-old cousin. |
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