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Fear and Dreaming in the USA

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4.552.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Fear is consuming many immigrant communities since the nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration. This week on The Sunday Story, NPR Immigration Correspondent Jasmine Garsd travels from Florida to a meatpacking town in Nebraska to a food bank near Chicago and finally to North Carolina to find out how immigrants are coping with the current situation.

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0:00.0

I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story from Up First.

0:06.7

Every Sunday we do something special.

0:09.1

We go beyond the news of the day to bring you one big story.

0:13.7

Not too long ago, NPR's immigration correspondent Jasmine Garts was at the laundromat

0:19.5

in her predominantly Latino neighborhood in New York City.

0:22.6

And this ad came on the wall-mounted TV that's always playing there.

0:27.6

It featured Christy Noam, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.

0:31.6

President Trump has a clear message for those that are in our country illegally.

0:35.6

Leave now. If you don't, we will find you,

0:39.7

and we will deport you. You will never return. This ad, it caught Jasmine's attention because she

0:46.5

spent a lot of time over the last year talking to immigrants with and without legal status,

0:52.8

who are scrambling to adjust to this moment.

0:56.0

People who have seen this coming for a while now.

0:59.4

There's one woman in particular who really stuck with her.

1:03.7

Okay, so about a year ago, I was in Florida in Fort Myers, and I'm in this trailer park where mostly Latino immigrant agricultural

1:13.9

workers live. And I'm hanging out with this woman. She's this older church lady. Her name is

1:19.8

Mari. And she says this thing to me about a popular Sunday market in the city. And these days,

1:27.3

I think a lot about what she said.

1:33.6

So what now?

1:34.9

She asked me.

1:36.0

Everyone is gone.

1:37.4

On Sunday mornings out here, there used to be cars.

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