It is so bad back home that people are willing to risk and maybe even die in this journey for a better life for themselves and their loved ones.

That's when we thought that nowhere I was safe. There was not a place where I was safe.

So often people think that you can just go down to the local post office, fill out a form, and become quote-unquote legal.

This is the country I've served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters.

Hi, I'm Rachel Vindman, and I'm one of the co-hosts of the Suburban Women Problem

Podcast. A few months ago, I called up our producer because I really wanted to do something

around immigration. It's a topic that's personal for me because my husband Alex is an immigrant.

So when we met, I was a flight attendant and you were a young army officer.

And I had plans to move back to Oklahoma and live there forever. You're really one of the

first immigrants that I ever got to know. And I sometimes marvel at the differences in our backgrounds and how we

made it work, how we kind of brought those, the different culture, different background. And even

though like on the surface, people wouldn't see us and think it was that different. How did a girl from like,

you know, little town in Oklahoma land an army officer, you know,

and from a cosmopolitan New York?

I mean, it's a tale as old as time, I guess.

That's right.

It's a, it's a homework movie, you know, which the country girl, you know, meets a successful kind of city boy or something like that, right?

Uh-huh. Yeah, you should pitch that. You should definitely pitch it.

When I see the anti-immigrant rhetoric, it really upsets me because this is what America is.

We're all threads in the American fabric. The differences

between each of our threads doesn't make us weaker, they make us stronger. So I wanted

to talk about this now because immigration is one of the top issues for voters this year.

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