Dora's Lasting Magic

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Nickelodeon's Dora The Explorer helped usher in a wave of multicultural children's programming in the U.S. Our friends at Latino USA tell the story of how the show pushed back against anti-immigrant rhetoric — and why Dora's character still matters.

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0:00.0	This is Code Switch from MPR. I'm Jane Dambi.
0:02.9	Chirin is out this week.
0:05.2	This week, the Trump administration announced new rules that would fundamentally change who can immigrate to and stay in the United States.
0:13.2	Under these new guidelines, immigrants who are here legally, but need or might need government aid for things like food and housing,
0:20.0	they will no longer be eligible for permanent resident status or green cards.
0:24.2	In other words, poor immigrants need not apply.
0:29.3	Our colleague, Morning Edition's Rachel Martin, interviewed Ken Kuchenelli, the Trump administration's acting head of the US citizenship and immigration service.
0:38.0	Would you also agree that MLA Lazarus's words etched on the Statue of Liberty give me your tired, your poor are also part of the American ethos?
0:45.6	They certainly are. Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.
0:53.8	Of course, this comes on the heels of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, right along the Mexico border.
1:00.4	The alleged gunman in that massacre targeted Latinx shoppers at a Walmart.
1:04.8	And in his hateful scream, he made clear that he felt that the US was being overrun by quote invaders.
1:11.2	Unquote from the southern border.
1:13.6	President Trump has himself used the term invaders to describe immigrants coming across that same border.
1:19.7	And the new immigration rules he put in place are the latest in a parade of policies and rhetoric from his White House,
1:25.8	the target migrants from Mexico and Latin America.
1:29.0	That includes the ongoing detention of migrants and the separation of children from those migrant families.
1:34.0	And the recent raids on workplaces believe to be employing unauthorized immigrants.
1:39.4	But please let us not get this twisted.
1:41.2	This is not just the domain of the fevered radical fringes or president inclined to racial demagoguery.
1:47.6	Just last year, the public religion research institute conducted a survey which found that nearly 75% of Republicans
1:53.4	say that immigrants burden local communities by using more than their share of social services.
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