ICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee

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🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, a reporter looks at a rural town where the largest immigration raid in a decade has ripped apart a community; Ronan Farrow talks about his reporting on Harvey Weinstein, which just won the Pulitzer Prize; and Jeffrey Toobin speaks with a romance novelist-turned-state lawmaker who hopes to become the governor of Georgia. She would be the first black woman to lead any state in the nation.

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0:00.0	This is World Trade to God.
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0:09.0	They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.
0:14.0	They're going to subconsciously mocked that lineage.
0:18.0	So that's happening.
0:20.0	It seems like an incredible story here on the new front.
0:24.1	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC
0:29.9	Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Now, I don't
0:36.4	know if you saw the story that ICE,
0:38.5	immigration and customs enforcement, recently conducted what's believed to be the largest workplace
0:43.8	raid in 10 years. Agents arrested almost 100 workers at a meatpacking plant in eastern Tennessee,
0:50.1	and we sent Jonathan Blitzer, who covers immigration for the New Yorker, to report on how
0:55.6	the raid is affecting immigrant families, business, and the wider community.
1:01.6	So the raid itself happened on Thursday morning, April 5th, and it was early.
1:08.8	It was about 9 o'clock in the morning.
1:13.4	A helicopter began circling above this plant.
1:19.6	This plant is the third largest business in Bean Station in Granger County.
1:26.3	But it's actually a very small, unassuming place, just a series of sort of a string of dilapidated barns.
1:29.5	And all of a sudden, all of these law enforcement agents converged on the place. So you had Tennessee Highway Patrol, you had IRS
1:35.4	agents, you had ICE agents. All of them swarmed this plant because the owner of the plant
1:40.6	stood accused of being tens of millions of dollars behind in taxes over an extended
1:48.0	period of time. So he owed the IRS just a ton of money. And it turned out that when the IRS
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