The Response: America's Story - Immigration

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Police raise their guns, but the migrant they are dealing with does not speak English. This is from just one of the smartphone stories submitted to The Response: America’s Story. The theme of the third episode of the series is immigration. Episode three of four podcasts. These are first-hand, true stories of journeys to America, compiled and recorded at Texas Public Radio in San Antonio. Reporters: Joey Palacios and Jack Morgan.

Presenter: Shaimaa Khalil Producers: Kevin Core for the BBC World Service with APM’s Laurie Stern

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from the BBC World Service with American Public Media.
0:04.3	I'm Shaima Khalil and you're listening to the response, America's story from the BBC
0:08.8	World Service with American public media. When Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States,
0:22.0	the countdown of his first 100 days in office began. It's a milestone applied to every
0:28.1	modern president and the BBC World Service and American public media decided to market with a unique project.
0:35.0	As political experts and media commentators came up with their assessment,
0:40.0	we handed it over to you.
0:42.0	All you had to do was use a smartphone with a voice recorder and email us a sound
0:46.7	file telling us your story of the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
0:52.4	Working with public radio stations from West Virginia to
0:54.6	Kansas City to San Antonio and Boise, Idaho, the four programs took a ground-level
0:59.4	view of what matters to Americans during a time of unprecedented change.
1:04.8	You're about to hear the results.
1:10.9	For our third episode we visited Texas Public Radio in San Antonio to hear your stories
1:15.8	about a topic which formed a key part of President Trump's campaign and his early days
1:20.7	in office.
1:21.7	Immigration. There are stories about journeys to New London. and his early days in office, immigration.
1:23.3	There are stories about journeys to new lives
1:25.6	and will begin in the 1980s in Communist Poland.
1:29.5	My name is Christoph Smudinsky.
1:31.3	I live in Oregon.
1:33.0	It was about, yeah, 84, 1984.
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