Refugees in Limbo, and a Conservative in Washington

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

At a safe house for refugees in Buffalo, New York, the difficult process of seeking asylum becomes even harder. And an establishment conservative assesses the President’s “casual dishonesty.”

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0:00.0	Sister Beth.
0:09.4	Yes.
0:10.0	Hey, it's Jake.
0:11.3	Can you, is this still okay time to chat with us?
0:14.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:15.0	I'm trying to keep phone lines open.
0:17.8	We're being bombarded right now.
0:19.4	I'm trying to find beds.
0:22.5	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. For more than a year, contributor Jake Helpern has been visiting a safe
0:27.7	house for migrants in Buffalo, New York. People from all over the world are there trying to get
0:32.7	refugee status in either Canada or the United States, which was a very difficult process even before
0:38.8	the election of Donald Trump.
0:40.4	Last week, Jake called for an update.
0:43.5	I have been told that you'd seen an increase in people who were just disappearing in
0:48.9	the night and trying to cross the border.
0:50.8	Is that the case?
0:51.8	Have you seen that?
0:53.3	We only had one or two that we knew got across the
0:56.8	border. We don't know how they get across the border, but they call back to a friend here,
1:03.0	and so we kind of get a third hand. But they have people on the move. Wow. We'll get to know
1:10.3	some of the people whose hopes and dreams are parked at that safe house later in the hour.
1:16.3	But we're going to start today whether we like it or not, frankly, in Washington.
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