Brian Lehrer Weekend: NYC's Migrant Response; Peter Hotez vs. Anti-Science; Patti Smith
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
New York City deputy mayor for health and human services Anne Williams-Isom on the city's response to the arrival of asylum seekers (First) | Peter Hotez on The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning (Starts at 35:35) | Patti Smith previews an upcoming performance at Princeton's McCarter Theater Center (Starts at 1:09:20)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org it's the Brian Lair show on WNYC good morning everyone |
| 0:38.8 | first of all on that BBC story they were just airing about Rupert Murdock stepping down as Fox |
| 0:44.0 | news CEO. I mean newscorp CEO, can you believe Locklin got it? I was sure it was going to be |
| 0:50.8 | Kendall or Shiv, not Roman, no way, but but Locklin. Anyway, we'll begin today for real with |
| 1:00.4 | potentially big news on the asylum-seeker situation in New York and around the country. |
| 1:05.6 | The Biden administration has announced that it will offer temporary protected status which comes |
| 1:11.3 | with the authorization to work in this country legally for close to half a million Venezuelans |
| 1:16.9 | in the U.S. as long as you are here before July 31st. This is just the kind of thing that Mayor |
| 1:23.2 | Adams and Governor Hocal have been asking for for New York. And while it doesn't solve the whole |
| 1:27.8 | issue of paying for asylum-seekers resettlement by any means, the New York immigration coalition |
| 1:33.6 | is quoted saying it will apply to about 60,000 Venezuelans in New York. That would be about |
| 1:39.4 | half of all the recent arrivals in the city who can now at least try to support themselves. |
| 1:45.2 | We'll talk about that in other related issues with Mayor Adams' chief point person on the asylum |
| 1:50.8 | seekers now. That's Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services and Williams-Isom. She has also |
| 1:56.9 | been chair of Child Welfare Studies at the Fordham Graduate School of Social Services and she was |
| 2:04.9 | the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone. Deputy Mayor, thanks for coming on today. Welcome back to |
| 2:09.6 | WNYC. Thank you so much, Brian. Thank you for having me and good to see you again. |
| 2:15.1 | Can you first give us your reaction to the announcement from the Biden administration? What do you think |
| 2:19.9 | it will mean for Venezuelans in New York and for the financial burden on the city? |
| 2:25.2 | So let me take a step back and I was checking my notes and I saw that when I last spoke to you |
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