Who Is A Good Immigrant, Anyway?

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🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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You might call "Dreamers" the most sympathetic characters in the immigration reform drama. But what happens when advocates try to champion an illegal immigrant who's a felon? Adrian and Shereen explore how advocates are challenging the narrative of the "good" and "bad" immigrant.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Code Switch from NPR.
0:02.6	I'm Shereen Marisol Maraji.
0:04.0	And I'm Adrian Fletti, though.
0:05.2	And Adrian, you and I have been talking about this idea of the good immigrant, and I'm
0:10.1	using Jean's air quotes right now.
0:11.6	I can see him.
0:12.6	I can see his quotes.
0:13.6	And the bad immigrant.
0:15.8	Yeah, and as we all know, pretty well.
0:18.2	So, so have some presidential candidates.
0:20.4	There are at least two million, two million think of it.
0:23.9	And we know Trump has been focused on the bad, right?
0:28.9	We're not.
0:29.9	That's not a rocket science, but he's not the only one.
0:32.9	Right.
0:33.9	Other politicians have been doing it too, but they just do it a little bit differently.
0:45.9	We should be deporting criminals, not hardworking immigrant families who do the very best they
0:51.2	can and often are keeping economies going in many places in our country.
0:56.8	That's why over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80%.
1:01.8	And that's why we're going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to
1:06.8	our security.
1:08.2	Fellings, not families, criminals, not children.
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