The park. Sunday. Queens, New York.

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week on Code Switch, we're doing a different kind of immigration coverage. We're telling a New York story: one that celebrates the beautiful, everyday life of the immigrant. Code Switch producer, Xavier Lopez and NPR immigration reporter, Jasmine Garsd spend a day at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

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0:00.0	This message comes from the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Foundation.
0:04.3	If you're a U.S. citizen living abroad, the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project's online form
0:10.6	will walk you through requesting your ballot in just five minutes.
0:14.0	Visit International Voter.com.
0:18.0	H. H-Hicks up, there's going to be some salty language.
0:21.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch. I'm B.A. Parker. Now, I'm guessing that a lot of the time when you turn on an immigration story, you're bracing yourself for some trauma, despair, partisan
0:36.8	bickering. Golly one of the last times Coateswich did a story specifically on
0:42.0	immigration it was about panic and quote unquote the
0:48.0	crisis at the border. But being an immigrant is about so much more than trauma.
0:54.1	It can be about playing sports, finding family, eating ice cream,
0:59.6	and all of that is coming to you in this tale you're about to hear.
1:04.6	This very New York tale.
1:07.6	It's brought to us by Coatswich producer Xavier Lopez and NPR's immigration reporter Jasmine Garzed.
1:14.7	Hey Javi, hey Jasmine.
1:16.4	Hi.
1:17.1	Hello.
1:17.8	So we're very excited to take our listeners
1:20.1	to one of my favorite places on earth. Flushing Meadows Park.
1:24.0	It's my park.
1:25.0	It's a couple of blocks away from where I grew up in Queens.
1:28.0	You're a park.
1:29.0	My park, it's my park.
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