#69: ITT Live: Immigrants, Crime, and the Culture War
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
How did immigration become about national security when the facts don’t back up this connection? And how do you respond to these accusations when the conversation isn’t about what’s true? When it’s about something deeper?
In this live recording of In The Thick at the Aspen Ideas Festival, hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a conversation with Wajahat Ali, writer, video essayist, and contributor to the New York Times, and Jose Antonio Vargas, journalist, immigrant rights activist and founder of Define American.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of In Thethick is brought to you by Jet.com. |
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| 0:14.0 | American white students are in the minority. And guess what? |
| 0:17.0 | They have grown up their entire lives, hearing about these borders and these invaders and these |
| 0:21.8 | walls. And my question to young white people is do you |
| 0:24.7 | know where you come from. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey welcome to In the Thick. |
| 0:30.6 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Marianne Jose and I'm Julio Ricalovaella. |
| 0:37.4 | And yo yo yo we are live at the Aspen Ideas Festival. We are live. |
| 0:45.0 | At the Aspen Idea. |
| 0:47.0 | Yo Julio, how did that Haspen that we are at the Aspen Ideas Festival? |
| 0:54.0 | Are we that smart? |
| 0:55.0 | I think I hope so. |
| 0:57.0 | We have some seriously smart guests with us today. |
| 1:00.0 | They're like our family. |
| 1:01.0 | José Antonio Vargas is an award-winning, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, formerly of the Washington Post. |
| 1:08.0 | He's the founder of Defined American and speaks up for undocumented immigrants everywhere because he is one from the Philippines. |
| 1:14.0 | It was Antonio Vargas, Hermann, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:17.0 | So good to have you here. |
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