Hi, I'm Shana Shealy. I've been a producer on Snap Judgment for nearly a decade. And years ago, I started following a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, documenting their epic battle for their own place on their

own terms.

I got totally sucked into this group's drama, and I couldn't stop.

And now, we're finally bringing that story to you.

A tiny plot.

A five-part series about scarcity, survival, and the one thing people in this group wanted most.

Control over their own lives. A tiny plot. A story told by the people who lived it.

Episode one drops August 21st in the Snap Judgment podcast feed.

Music drops August 21st in the Snap Judgment podcast feed. The United States southern border.

It's almost 2,000 miles long through some of the most varied terrain on earth.

It's become big news.

See, some folk, they want to build a wall, an actual 2,000 mile long wall to keep unwanted people on the other side.

Others suggest locking children in cages to teach their parents a lesson.

So others, they applaud the firing of tear gas, while there are those that advocate that the

United States

actually fire bullets.

It's a scary situation that keeps getting scarier.

So today, on Snap Judgment,

we're going to tell a border story.

But this story starts far,

far, far away from the border.

We're going to call it the border hack.

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