Dear Sugar: I'm An Undocumented Immigrant
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, the Sugars take a question from a young woman who came to the United States as an 11-year-old undocumented immigrant. After years of uncertainty and limbo, she is now poised to become a citizen, but wonders how she can ever make up for the time she lost. The Sugars are joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ruben Vives, who grew up under similar circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | Must remember, do not forget. |
| 0:07.0 | Remind me to bring photo ID. |
| 0:11.0 | Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, love. |
| 0:19.0 | However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May. |
| 0:24.0 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. |
| 0:26.8 | UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:30.0 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:41.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. |
| 0:46.2 | Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:59.0 | Share some little sweet days with me. |
| 1:05.0 | I check my bell-bives everyday. |
| 1:10.0 | Every day. Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:21.0 | Dear sugars, dear sugars, I don't even know where to begin. I've been caught in a 19 year battle with time and it's just now finally subsiding. I was brought to the U.S. as an 11 year old and became an undocumented immigrant. |
| 1:35.2 | I had nothing to do with the decision to be in this country and it has shaped |
| 1:39.2 | absolutely everything about me. I am now 30 years old. I understand it may not seem that |
| 1:45.1 | traumatic but it is so alienating so vastly confusing and in some way so |
| 1:49.4 | tremendously dehumanizing. Despite having a good support group, I don't have anyone who truly |
| 1:55.3 | understands my nature or my experience. My relationships with men have failed |
| 1:59.7 | due in great part I believe to my circumstances and my fear of being labeled a green card hunter. |
| 2:06.5 | My career has been halted by my lack of documentation and my character has been affected by searching |
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