Episode 47: Give Me Your Tired...

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Social Sciences, Performing Arts, Science, Arts

4.6 • 42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Our airwaves are filled with debates about migrants, refugees, and undocumented immigrants... Who should be in the United States, who shouldn't, and who should decide? Immigration is, without question, a flash point in this year's political debates. It's an issue that seems to get to the core of who we are, who we want to be, and where we're headed as a nation. Today we're going to take a fresh look at the issue by exploring what history can teach us about the patterns and paradoxes of immigration in a nation of immigrants. It's one of a series of shows in the next few weeks that will speak to issues that have bubbled to the surface in politics this year, that reveal something about us — and human nature. Historian Maria Cristina Garcia joins us.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:02.8	We were almost done working on this week's show
0:05.0	when news broke Thursday evening.
0:07.2	News that required an on-air warning
0:09.8	before our colleagues could even discuss it.
0:11.8	And Oval Office conversation turns vulgar.
0:14.6	And I want to acknowledge what I'm about to say
0:16.6	could offend some people.
0:17.6	He asked why the United States would
0:19.4	admit people from African nations,
0:21.8	which he called shit hole countries.
0:24.4	Trump then told lawmakers he would rather
0:26.1	see more immigrants from Norway.
0:28.1	The war on common hot-natter race.
0:30.3	I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed.
0:36.6	In light of President Trump's comments,
0:38.2	as well as ongoing debate over the program known as
0:40.6	deferred action for childhood arrivals or DACA,
0:43.8	we thought we'd switch gears and bring you this conversation
0:46.3	from October 2016.
0:48.6	As a journalist, I think this conversation is timely.
0:52.4	As an immigrant myself, I think it's essential.
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