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Imperfect Paradise: Return to Mexico: Part 1

California Love

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Zamora took a roadtrip in 2011 that would take an unexpected turn to the Texas border. That detour would shatter the course of his life. Journalist Lorena Ríos reports.

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0:00.0

Support for LAS comes from FX, presenting Welcome to Wrexham.

0:04.3

The stakes have never been higher, as Rob McElheney and Ryan Reynolds navigate running the third

0:08.7

oldest professional football club in the world, Emmy eligible in all unstructured reality categories.

0:14.0

I'm Emily Kwong, host of the new podcast inheriting from L.A.

0:17.8

Studios.

0:18.8

Join me for an immersive evening about Asian American and Pacific Islander families and their histories. June 27th. about This is In Perfect Paradise, a show about hidden worlds and messy realities.

0:34.0

I'm Antonia Sireijito.

0:37.0

Electioniers are notorious as a time when rhetoric on immigration and the US-Mexico border escalate on both

0:44.3

sides of the political spectrum. Even Democratic candidates over the past few decades

0:49.4

have tended to take a more hard-line stance on immigration leading up to elections.

0:56.6

Just a few weeks ago, President Biden signed an executive order to cap asylum requests at the border

1:01.5

during a surge.

1:02.6

I've seen actions to bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully.

1:07.4

A move the New York Times called the single most restrictive border policy instituted by any

1:11.8

modern Democrat. Even though he'd condemned a similar measure

1:15.8

under the Trump presidency back in 2018.

1:20.4

So in this election year, as the debates around immigration ramp up as you're hearing sound bites and rallying cries.

1:26.0

They're poisoning the blood of our country.

1:29.0

We bring you a story about the toll America's immigration and border policies have on real people.

1:37.4

Because the election is in less than six months, but the impact of these policies can

1:41.6

last a lifetime.

1:45.0

Back in 2021, reporter Lorina Rios traveled to Souda Guares

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