Immigration

Science Vs

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Science, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We head to a farm in Alabama to find out what happened after thousands of immigrants left the state. Did it create more jobs for Americans and what happened to the crime rate? We speak to economists Prof. Samuel Addy, Prof. Jennifer Hunt, and Prof. Brian Bell to find out. Science Vs Live! Come see our live show on the science behind red wine, coffee and chocolate - could our favorite treats actually be good for us? Thursday 3/23 at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NYC. Get your tickets here. Credits: This episode has been produced by Heather Rogers, Wendy Zukerman, and Shruti Ravindran. Kaitlyn Sawrey is our senior producer. Production assistance by Ben Kuebrich. We’re edited by Annie Rose Strasser. Fact Checking by Michelle Harris. Sound engineering, music production and original music written by Bobby Lord. Thanks to Dr Anna Piil Damm, Professor Charis Kubrin, Assistant Professor Jorg Spenkuch, Professor Kristin Butcher and Ramiro Martinez… as well as the Zukerman family. Selected References:2016 NAS report: The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration (with ‘key messages and conclusions’ starting on page 202.ACLU analysis of “Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act,” HB 562003 analysis and 2015 analysis on how immigrants affect wages Brian Bell’s 2013 study on the effect of two different immigration waves on crime in the UKFBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Database Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Wendy Zuckerman. You're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet Media.
0:07.0	Okay, what I'm looking at, I thought the wall? I think that's the wall. Yeah, it's a bloody big fence.
0:18.0	Restricted area.
0:20.0	No trespass.
0:23.0	I'm about 20 minutes from the wall. I can't even tell. Why am I saying nervous?
0:35.0	Because I'm in restricted area. That's why I'm nervous. Okay, here it is. This is the wall.
0:40.0	This is what it's about. This is the border between America and Mexico.
0:46.0	I kicked the wall. Just so you could hear it. The wall says made in the USA.
0:55.0	I'm at the border between the US and Mexico about an hour's drive away from San Diego.
1:03.0	And despite what you might hear in the news, and as you just heard, on this part of the border, there's already a wall.
1:10.0	It's about 20 feet tall and is made of big middle posts and strong wire mesh.
1:15.0	Within minutes of kicking it, border patrol arrived in a white SUV.
1:20.0	Oh!
1:22.0	How you doing?
1:23.0	Hello, how are you?
1:24.0	Good, thank you.
1:25.0	I was just looking for the friendship monument.
1:27.0	Not allowed to actually be come up to this fence, really.
1:30.0	Oh, okay. Thanks.
1:33.0	A fence? Wall? Fence?
1:37.0	I guess it's more of a wence. And a recent Pew survey found that about 40% of Americans want a longer wence,
1:44.0	one that runs the full length of the border with Mexico.
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