Dear listener, what you're about to hear is a real New York story, an immigration story.

It's one that celebrates the beautiful everyday life of the many immigrant communities at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Forget Central Park. This is the New York

Park you got to know about. Today on Latino USA, we're bringing you an episode from Code Switch,

one of our favorite NPR shows. It was reported last year when things were quite different

before this election, before the fear in immigrant communities spiked.

So for now, we love this piece and we think you'll love it too, so we want to share it with you.

Here it is, a day in the park.

Um, heads up, there's going to be some salty language.

Hey, everyone, you're listening to Code Switch. I'm B.A. Parker. Now, I'm guessing that a lot of the time when you turn on an immigration story, you're bracing yourself. For some trauma, despair, partisan bickering. Golly, but being an immigrant is about so much more than trauma.

It can be about playing sports, finding family, eating ice cream.

And all of that is coming to you in this tale you're about to hear.

This very New York tale.

It's brought to us by Code Switch producer Xavier Lopez and NPR's immigration reporter

Jasmine Garzed.

Hey, Javier, hey, Jasmine.

Hey.

Hello.

So we're very excited to take our listeners to one of my favorite places on Earth, Flushing

Meadows Park.

It's my park.

It's a couple of blocks away from where I grew up in Queens. You're a park. My park. It's my park. It's a couple of blocks away from where I grew up in Queens.

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