Dreams Deferred, Hope on Hold
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Reporters' stories. Obstacles to President Obama's immigration reforms pile up -- it could mean a long wait for those who came looking to become legal US citizens. Will prime minister Modi's plans for investment in India's infrastructure adversely affect the country's longterm development? Sixty thousand Indian troops were killed fighting for the British in World War 1 -- we visit the battlefield in France where they fought their first major engagement. A freak injury in China provides an unexpected opportunity to examine the accident and emergency facilities in a Chinese hospital. And we meet a group of young men in the DRC capital Kinshasa whose outrageous dress sense brings rush hour traffic, even football games, to a standstill.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service, |
| 0:09.0 | but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, it was the Indian government promised a budget for everyone, but can it do anything |
| 0:22.4 | about those trains which mysteriously go |
| 0:25.1 | missing. We find out why the British once hired half a million porters in |
| 0:29.7 | East Africa, why the fashionistas of Kinshasa have taken to fur coats and designer Wellington |
| 0:35.5 | boots, and there are screams of anguish as a rogue broad bean sends our man to A&E in China. |
| 0:43.0 | But first, President Obama's plans to reform immigration procedures in the United States |
| 0:48.7 | received a further setback this week |
| 0:51.0 | when a judge in Texas refused to lift an injunction blocking them. |
| 0:55.0 | US District Judge Andrew Hanan, who's based in Brownsville, a city on the border with |
| 1:00.1 | Mexico, is already on record as saying the immigration laws are too lax. |
| 1:05.0 | 26 American states now oppose Mr Obama's proposals, which if implemented |
| 1:11.0 | could allow almost 5 million illegal immigrants to stay on in the US without fear of deportation. |
| 1:17.0 | The Brownsville decision means that many of the individual court hearings which rule on an immigrant's legal status have been put on hold. |
| 1:25.6 | And as Reginevaygenathans has been finding out, that's leading to a huge backlog of cases. |
| 1:31.5 | Court number one is a soulless, windowless room where dreams are |
| 1:35.6 | deferred and hopes are put on hold. Fluorescent tube lights beam down on the |
| 1:40.4 | suite on the second floor of a vast and modern office building. |
| 1:44.3 | A judge sits in front of a circular wooden crest which has an American eagle carved |
| 1:49.2 | into it, a symbol of the country's freedom. |
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