Jeff Rosen answers your constitutional questions
We the People
National Constitution Center
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to the latest of our We the People constitutional podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. |
| 0:20.0 | And we have an exciting podcast today. |
| 0:22.8 | This is the fourth of our Ask Jeff series, |
| 0:25.9 | where you are phenomenal listeners |
| 0:27.8 | have written in with your constitutional questions. |
| 0:30.6 | And the first of our podcast |
| 0:31.9 | with our spectacular new radio quality equipment here in our incredibly cool new broadcast studio at the National Constitution Center. |
| 0:41.0 | Our phenomenal web strategist, |
| 0:44.3 | Nacandro Iunache, is going to ask the questions, |
| 0:47.1 | as usual. |
| 0:48.6 | We've got some great ones, so let's jump right in, |
| 0:50.8 | Nacondro. |
| 0:52.6 | Thanks, Jeff. |
| 0:53.8 | Our first question comes from an immigrant from Central America. |
| 0:58.2 | I have lived in the US for 17 years. |
| 1:01.2 | While here I have been subjected to every possible scrutiny by the government and others. |
| 1:07.0 | My life has been turned upside down, and for the last 34 months I have been unemployed despite continuously applying for work at several |
| 1:15.7 | different places, including those with low wages and that require little to no skill. Some local government agencies have been blocking my ability to |
| 1:25.4 | find employment and I have also been subject to violence and neglect from the ones who are |
| 1:31.3 | supposed to serve and protect me. |
| 1:34.0 | Do I have any rights? |
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