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Speaker 1: single state immigration raid in US history. That raid took

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Speaker 1: place in August of twenty nineteen, just days after the

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Speaker 1: new episode of reporting that we just did in Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: It's a Monday in February of twenty twenty, which means

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Speaker 1: we are deep inside the state of Mississippi, near the

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Speaker 1: town of Carthage, and we've come here to meet a

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Speaker 1: it all? One of the women, Fadika, has her daughter

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Speaker 1: She has a case pending with immigration. Her daughter has

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Speaker 2: Twelve?

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Speaker 1: You're twelve, So you speak and.

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Speaker 2: Just speak and little English.

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Speaker 1: You speak English, you speak Spanish and mom and mom,

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Speaker 1: Feddika and her daughter came to Mississippi. From what they're undocumented,

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Speaker 1: and they're not the only ones. Over the past twenty years,

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Speaker 1: So what do you think about Mississippi? You like it here?

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Speaker 2: Yes, you do? Why because I like to go in school.

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Speaker 1: Your mom does she work in the chicken pat.

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Speaker 2: No, chilhower. He has something in her feet?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, can you show me in signet? Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, Oh, my goodness. So she's wearing an ankle shackle.

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Speaker 1: This is the kind of ankle shackle that immigration authorities

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Speaker 1: use to keep track of immigrants once they're released from

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Speaker 1: and an indentation. It's black. In Faederica's case, her troubles

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Speaker 1: started when she went to one of the area's chicken

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Speaker 3: Oofia ristado in siete de algosto.

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Speaker 1: Estavavus gondo isidia. Hold on a second, are you telling

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Speaker 1: me that you so your mom went to look for

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Speaker 1: that what happened? August seventh, twenty nineteen, the day of

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Speaker 3: See as if we are isidia fer a restao ai.

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Speaker 1: Rusteu didn't even work the.

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Speaker 1: Fedrika was released by immigration authorities like many others on

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Speaker 1: Lace Immigration agents told her that in order to be

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Speaker 3: See see see Trista Vesis.

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Speaker 1: Mama Is Federica's daughter fears that one day her mother

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Speaker 2: I think the immigrants, and she goes back in and

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Speaker 2: what about you? Mhmm and being alone?

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Speaker 1: You're gonna stay here alone?

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Speaker 1: Is that what you want? You want to go back

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Speaker 1: From FUDA Media and p r X, It's Latino USA.

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Speaker 1: I'm Maria Jrosa. Today the tragic legacy of the largest

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Speaker 1: in Mississippi is still coping with its painful consequences. One

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Speaker 5: Now to our nation's food supply, many meat processing plant

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Speaker 5: workers are now protesting orders to remain.

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Speaker 5: At least twenty two facilities are currently closed because of

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Speaker 1: And meat packing and processing plants are at the center

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Speaker 6: Tonight, a food supply chain strained by COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: It was a bottleneck caused by this whole pandemic.

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Speaker 6: Now relief, the President says, in the form of his

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Speaker 1: Employees at meat packing plants were declared essential workers, and

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Speaker 6: The disparity in cases of COVID nineteen in America soaring

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Speaker 1: There are about fifty chicken processing plants in the state

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Speaker 1: Over the decades, many locals have turned to other less

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Speaker 7: We begin today's show looking at the fallout from the

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Speaker 1: A year ago. Hundreds of ICE agents arrived at seven

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Speaker 1: Some of those who were detained have been deported there

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Speaker 8: Last February, six months after the immigration rates, Marie and

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Speaker 8: I went down to Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: That's the voice of Mia and Macis. We traveled together

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Speaker 8: The massive immigration rates that had taken place in the

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Speaker 8: We wanted to know how months after, when the news

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Speaker 1: So we just pulled up in front of one of

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Speaker 1: first thing that we did was we drove outside of

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Speaker 1: and the plant is a big, nondescript white and yellow,

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Speaker 1: one story building there's nothing that would indicate that it's

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Speaker 1: a poultry plant necessarily, other than the smell. Like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the smell. What does it smell like chickens and blood?

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Speaker 8: Like rotten chicken and blood? Lorena says. This is Lorni

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Speaker 8: Kitos Lewis. She works with the large Latino population that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what have the workers said to you about the smell?

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Speaker 7: That it remains in their clothing for days, It's hard

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Speaker 7: and how a stays even in their nostrils when they're

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Speaker 8: One of the things to hear the most about working

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Speaker 8: smell is difficult to take in. Still, finding Natino workers

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Speaker 1: Over the past decades, immigrants from Latin America have taken

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Speaker 1: up many of the jobs in the meat packing industry. Nationally,

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Speaker 8: Juya speak English or no?

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Speaker 1: This is for USA on NPR. Let's go okay. There

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Speaker 4: I am Louis Cartina, American Chilean American citizen. I have

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Speaker 8: I first read about Louis Cartaana and while researching for

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Speaker 1: This is Chilean TV.

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Speaker 8: He welcomes us with a big smile. Inside his living room,

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Speaker 8: the TV is plasting a Chilean television channel. Kattakinah came

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Speaker 4: So I arrived in November the fifth, nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: When he arrived Louis wasn't able to work as an

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Speaker 8: That's one of those vehicles used to lift palette factories.

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Speaker 8: You've seen them before.

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Speaker 4: Until the plant was very short of people, very short

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Speaker 8: They didn't want to.

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Speaker 4: Work, really, because a poultry plant job is a hard job,

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Speaker 8: This is a recurring comment we hear many times. There

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Speaker 8: are not enough locals willing to work in factories in

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Speaker 8: the chicken processing industry. The assembly line can be especially tough.

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Speaker 4: And you need to be doing the same thing every

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Speaker 4: day for eight hours and gutting wings, cutting wins, cutting

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Speaker 1: Are you responsible for getting the first Latin American poultry

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Speaker 8: I am not responsible.

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Speaker 4: I mean I was hired and they said we are

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Speaker 4: to get us more workers.

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Speaker 8: In nineteen eighty three, Captagina started flying to Texas and

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Speaker 4: And we started recruiting legal workers in those years, and

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Speaker 8: Within four years, the program had brought roughly five thousand,

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Speaker 8: But for a lot of people these benefits that Kattaana

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Speaker 4: But some just quit after they said they were working

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Speaker 4: With the spaning here, this area changed a lot and more.

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Speaker 8: Back then, when Cartagana was working for the Hispanic Project,

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Speaker 4: And when they were the Manas around ten or more

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Speaker 4: I think they don't complain the American community all the time.

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Speaker 8: The fact that undocumented workers made it to these chicken

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Speaker 4: Because this is a state that is racist, very divided.

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Speaker 4: They don't want Hispanic in this area. They smile to you,

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Speaker 8: Very different.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on letting know USA, hundreds of ICE agents

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Speaker 1: Hey we're back, and we've been hearing from Mississippi residents

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Speaker 8: The morning after talking with Louis Carta, Heina, Maria and

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Speaker 1: So that's why we went to visit Elena, and she

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Speaker 2: This is it last persona qua Makina.

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Speaker 1: And people say the at this place used to make

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Speaker 2: Fur q A is done with.

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Speaker 1: But the factory is not operating anymore, and Elena is

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Speaker 2: Yea.

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Speaker 1: Elena is originally from what Malam and has been living

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Speaker 1: warn you now, Elena's story is painful to hear. Tell

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Speaker 1: and kind of what's your childhood?

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Speaker 2: Like genesy and media bla bla. Your Croquet Cristian.

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Speaker 1: Elena told us said she grew up very poor in

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Speaker 2: Mama?

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Speaker 1: Her dad used to beat her mother regularly, and Elena

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Speaker 2: Yellow Ka Penseke.

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Speaker 1: One day, when Elena was just fourteen years old, something

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Speaker 2: Even Mamma see why.

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Speaker 1: Her mother had asked her to get a devotional candle,

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Speaker 2: Back HeLa Ferze.

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Speaker 1: A man assaulted and raped her Marie.

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Speaker 1: She could barely walk home on her own.

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Speaker 2: Hey al miss.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she wanted to die, she says. And a month

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Speaker 1: later Elena found out she was pregnant. She asked her

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Speaker 1: It took her three attempts to cross the US Mexico

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Speaker 2: No porque nada he medijo.

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Speaker 1: In the hospital where she gave birth, the nurses told

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Speaker 2: Yea pero media la semana.

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Speaker 1: So when Elena got to Mississippi, she started living with

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Speaker 2: Americo.

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Speaker 1: The woman living with Elena told her that her aunt

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Speaker 2: No no medi.

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Speaker 1: The woman told Elena that she had paid her at

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Speaker 2: Yes, look at you, Mikardo.

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Speaker 1: By now, Elena was desperate, She was afraid of being

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Speaker 2: In contre to say look at the missister held yose.

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Speaker 1: She got a hold of the father of her child,

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Speaker 2: Hell nose as als you see.

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Speaker 1: And this man did come. He had by now left

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Speaker 2: Am Espertela meneq no do you ceeo loo kiyo be

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Speaker 2: becoming poppast it cresciento iloa selm.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she finally left this man and escaped with her

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Speaker 8: We started with Elena for more than one hour strike

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Speaker 8: Elena's is especially hard. It's complex and tragic, but in

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Speaker 8: spite of all that she slipped through, she kept looking ahead.

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Speaker 8: Elena worked in chicken processing plants for years, a single mother,

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Speaker 1: Okay, you go to work on a normal day, the

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Speaker 1: And what happens on that day? What time were you

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Speaker 2: Alas alas singh coin de la maniana your presentia sonerasa

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Speaker 2: kemeba pasa.

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Speaker 8: Elena told us that she woke up at five thirty am,

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Speaker 2: Niu stavan bien dormino in este quarto bundosta arisanto. Well,

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Speaker 2: there were allus news she's someone satos janus.

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Speaker 8: And before she left for work that day, she checked

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Speaker 8: and Elena suddenly thought what would happen to them if

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Speaker 8: I didn't come back today. But she had committed to

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Speaker 8: drove into work started filling up boxes with chicken parts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, gondolas at quarrent I think Angela Mirasio U and

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Speaker 2: Naji cola pistole pontando.

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Speaker 1: They were pointing guns.

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Speaker 9: See Estevan Armadosi. The choice the Jevavanta, mieste perus andrenaldos

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Speaker 9: for si la centes de forasalier.

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Speaker 1: This is Jesenya, which is actually not her real name.

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Speaker 1: She asked us not to use it. On the day

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Speaker 9: Roderon La planta completamente and La Planta completamente veelicopeteros to

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Speaker 9: sera la rejas via mi racion.

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Speaker 1: Ice agents surrounded the plant there were helicopters flying overhead.

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Speaker 1: There was no way out la migracion this, oh, you

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Speaker 1: can see that, Corndo.

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Speaker 8: Elena didn't realize it was ice at first. She thought

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Speaker 8: the police were just arresting someone.

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Speaker 2: Nasa carnos inespasia Heya.

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Speaker 1: Who keeps.

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Speaker 2: Mana in document.

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Speaker 8: So ICE agents lined the workers up and they congretlated

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Speaker 8: themselves for a job well done, giving themselves high fives.

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Speaker 9: Termino.

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Speaker 1: The same type of raid was happening in the plant

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Speaker 1: she thought to herself, that's it, It's all over.

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Speaker 9: La brada mimags perro Kelvira mississipes.

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Speaker 1: Yesenya had worked at the plant for years along with

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Speaker 1: it took them completely by surprise. And there's some context

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Speaker 1: here that's important to understand. These plants had claimed that

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Speaker 1: they had used Everify to check work eligibility. This is

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00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: a government system that allows employers to confirm the eligibility

449
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: of employees to work in the United States. However, later

450
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: it was revealed that the system hadn't been used the

451
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Speaker 1: way it was supposed to. The chicken processing plants had

452
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Speaker 1: been hiring undocumented workers for years and nothing had ever happened,

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Speaker 1: so Yesenya and many others didn't feel there was a

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Speaker 1: risk of being detained or reported. How pregnant were.

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Speaker 9: You, Dana Saves Messis and Barrasso Saved Messas and Barrasso Kuando.

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Speaker 1: At the time, Yessenya was six months pregnant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Memmimano nermar mis piace idea still poq.

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Speaker 1: So st.

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Speaker 8: Elena was uncuffed as she wondered, what have I done wrong?

460
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Speaker 8: I'm just trying to take care of my children. She

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Speaker 8: was let go later that day, along with other single

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Speaker 8: mothers who were taken in. It's unclear what the criteria was,

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Speaker 8: but I says the agency released more than three hundred

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Speaker 8: people on humanitarian grounds. Soon after the raids.

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Speaker 1: Yasenya was also let go by ICE agents because she

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Speaker 1: was pregnant. But her husband Did you see your husband

467
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Speaker 1: when he was being detained? What was that like?

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Speaker 9: Jake sol and it is a momento stand the temple.

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Speaker 1: Yesenya feared that her husband wouldn't come back.

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Speaker 9: Naziobebe and and tonzas Jo me, I supposed to Preso

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Speaker 9: and Ton, says jose t Dlo de Portlaos.

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Speaker 1: Jesenya's husband was detained for six months and missed the

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Speaker 1: birth of his child. Did you tell them that your

474
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Speaker 1: wife was about to give birth?

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Speaker 2: Lies he Ke West.

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Speaker 8: When the Sena's husband tried to tell IS agents that

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Speaker 8: he was going to miss the birth of his child,

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Speaker 8: they told him there was nothing they could do.

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Speaker 1: How many days ago were you released from the tension?

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Speaker 8: Penna say he was released just a couple of days

481
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Speaker 8: before we visited them.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel, Messino Felice content familiar.

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Speaker 8: Ert He's happy to be back with his family. He

484
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 8: really thought he would never see them again.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on Latino USA, we look at the long

486
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Speaker 1: term repercussions of the Mississippi poultry plant rates. Stay with us,

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Speaker 1: not bas.

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 1: We're back and before the break, we were hearing from

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Speaker 1: Elena and Jesenya, two immigrants who on the day of

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Speaker 1: the largest single state immigration raid in US history. We're

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Speaker 1: working at two of the seven chicken processing plants raided.

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Speaker 1: Mil Masses picks up the story with me.

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Speaker 8: Now, the raids happened on a single day, but for

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Speaker 8: those who were there. August seventh was just the beginning

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Speaker 8: of a long process. And I told us that she

497
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 8: was traumatized after the raid. She was depressed and couldn't sleep.

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Speaker 8: She could not even look out of the windows.

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Speaker 2: She says, Santa.

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Speaker 8: I felt they were chasing me, and she says she

501
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 8: went on lockdown for weeks. What am I going to

502
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Speaker 8: do now? She asked herself.

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Speaker 9: Includes vas Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Sena has very similar feelings. She now lives with

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Speaker 1: the fear that she could be taken away at any

506
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: moment by immigration.

507
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 9: Authoritieslmente, was.

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Speaker 1: That deep feeling of insecurity that made them flee their

509
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: countries to begin with, is now hunting them and their

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00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 1: children in this country. So you have American kids born

511
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: in Mississippi to Sijos on Americans Nacidos and Mississippi.

512
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Speaker 2: Carolina.

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Speaker 1: And when you say that, when you actually say, I'm

514
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: a mother of three kids born in the United States,

515
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Speaker 1: in the American South, what do you think about that?

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Speaker 2: Parte porque parke your second looky yoso yoseffree.

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Speaker 8: Elena thinks about the fact that her children will not

518
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 8: go to the hardships. She went through.

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Speaker 2: My faily.

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00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 8: That makes her happy. She is confident her children have

521
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 8: a better future ahead of them.

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Speaker 2: La manera busca al contoxi pocus alone.

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Speaker 8: After the rates portry plans were extra careful not to

524
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 8: hire unlocumented workers, so Elena had to look elsewhere. She

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00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 8: was planning to look for work in construction.

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Speaker 2: No, not pire esperanza your you think on CONFI I.

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Speaker 1: Love your optimism and your hope and your smile. If

528
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Speaker 1: I seen that to optimism to esperanza to.

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Speaker 2: In Canada serious not bire lessperanza pasa mil calls us

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Speaker 2: you piens i album mema salis thest question.

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Speaker 8: She's gone through a dozen things in her life. She

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Speaker 8: says she'll make it through this, and that's what many

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Speaker 8: of those arrested on August seventh, nineteen field. They will

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00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 8: come together as a strong community to make it through this,

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00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 8: and we had to witness how they're pulling together. One

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Speaker 8: Sunday afternoon, signor estate of the going to a spirit.

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Speaker 10: Cordically Spiritu Santo.

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Speaker 1: This is Saint Michael's Catholic Church in Forest, Mississippi. When

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00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 1: we arrived, the place is packed. It's full of families,

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00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 1: so many little kids everywhere, and most of the people

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Speaker 1: here are from Wamala. There's a traditional band from what

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00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: Temala playing in the church. And after the mask we

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00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: hang out outside the church. We're waiting for a father

544
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: man not to sit down with us.

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Speaker 8: And as we wait around, Maria starts to talk to

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Speaker 8: a little girl wearing one of those traditional Watemalon dresses

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Speaker 8: most of the women here are wearing.

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Speaker 1: Just describe for me what you're wearing.

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Speaker 2: It's a it's a there's a dress on, warmon.

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Speaker 1: Do you know anything about it?

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Speaker 2: It's a special occasion, I like my mom, like a

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Speaker 2: lot of people are wearing it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna describe it. It's blue with humming birds. I

554
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Speaker 1: think around her neck, then white lace, and then the

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00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: colors are green and yellow.

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Speaker 8: And then Father Mana walks us into one story building

557
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Speaker 8: next to the church. He has a small office at

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Speaker 8: the end of a narrow, dark hallway.

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Speaker 1: So how many masses did you give today?

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Speaker 10: I gave it every Sunday, four day friend masses, one

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Speaker 10: in English doing Spanish and one in Vienna.

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Speaker 8: Miss Father Mana is originally from Gatemala. He has been

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Speaker 8: the leader of this parish for two years and he's

564
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 8: being in the US for two decades.

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Speaker 1: So what do you want us to know about this congregation.

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Speaker 10: There is a multilingual community, and I will say that

567
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Speaker 10: after the race, I will say we are not the

568
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 10: same because the majority of this community is Hispanic and

569
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Speaker 10: we had more than two hundred families that were affected

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Speaker 10: by the raids.

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Speaker 8: President Trump had announced on a Friday in mid July

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Speaker 8: twenty nineteen that ICE could be conducting major detention operations

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Speaker 8: across the nation that weekend.

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Speaker 10: So that Sunday I had half of the people coming

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00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 10: to church because they were in fear that they think

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00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 10: that that weekend something might happen, but they didn't know

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Speaker 10: that that was going to happen in their own work,

578
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 10: in their own job.

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Speaker 8: After the raids. For the Menis, church became a help

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Speaker 8: for people looking for help.

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Speaker 10: All the people came here asking for food and some

582
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 10: of them they didn't have money for the rent because

583
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 10: a lot of them they were not higher anymore. Some

584
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 10: of them had the uncle monitors so they could not work.

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Speaker 1: So, you know, I've never been here before. It's I guess.

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Speaker 1: We came for the end of the one o'clock mass,

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Speaker 1: and I got here maybe halfway through the mass, and

588
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: there was an overflowing crowd of people in your tiny church.

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Speaker 1: So for me, this feels like, you know, there's no

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00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: parking space, people are double parked, there's no way to

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Speaker 1: get in and out. I mean, this feels like a

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00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: very vibrant community. But you're telling me that it's since

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Speaker 1: August to now, it's not the same.

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Speaker 10: The thing is, we have more active members now after

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00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 10: the raids, but the problem is we still have people detained,

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Speaker 10: and we still have the children and the youth affected

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Speaker 10: emotionally and psychologically.

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Speaker 8: And the thing is, the raids didn't happen on a

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Speaker 8: normal day. It was the first day of school in

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Speaker 8: the towns surrounding the chicken processing plants.

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Speaker 10: So it was a very difficult experience for a lot

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Speaker 10: of them because imagine that after school they got the

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Speaker 10: news that their parents were in jail.

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Speaker 8: Some kids were not picked up by their parents that day.

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Speaker 8: The community had to scramble to take care of each other.

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Speaker 10: Postra marriage stresses their experiencing this. We have been listened

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00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 10: in testimony that some of them they don't have the

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00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 10: same kin grades at school. A lot of depression anxiety

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Speaker 10: in the kids and also in the youth.

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Speaker 8: After the rate, more than three hundred people ended up

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Speaker 8: spending time inside immigration centers somewhere different months. Some are

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00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 8: still in custody, others were deported. A lot of them.

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Speaker 10: They have a lot of hurt in their hearts. They

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Speaker 10: don't tell what is happening, and they have fear, so

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00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 10: they don't talk. They don't want to be important. Maybe

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Speaker 10: they want to go back to their countries, but because

617
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 10: of their children that they are Americans, they don't want

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Speaker 10: to go back.

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Speaker 8: Father Men had told us that some members in his

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00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 8: community had gone through traumatic experiences before. Gamala went through

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Speaker 8: a war in the eighties, then gun violence, economic crisis.

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Speaker 8: That's what these workers are trying to escape from.

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Speaker 10: For them, they came because they didn't have work over there,

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Speaker 10: and after the war over there. I have listened testimony

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00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 10: that they say, we have being expedienced here. War sings

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00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 10: that in Guatemala because we came flying from violence and

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Speaker 10: now we are experience in violence in the United States.

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Speaker 8: But that doesn't mean this. Families are planning to go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Oh comes da. On our last morning in Mississippi, we

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Speaker 1: visited Lorena, the community organizer who has been connecting us

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Speaker 1: to the workers in the area for Lorena lives in Jackson,

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Speaker 1: in a house she's slowly renovating. She lives here with

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Speaker 1: her three Afro Latina daughters who she homeschools with.

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Speaker 7: One of the gentlemen I work with, he said, worthless.

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Speaker 8: Now, Dorina knows this community like few other people in

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Speaker 8: the area, and she saw what the raids did to them.

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Speaker 7: This was immediately after a beautiful king Sianeta for his daughter.

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00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 7: The community helped out and they got her a use

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Speaker 7: dressed and it was beautiful. And I talked to him

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Speaker 7: to congratulate him and said, what a beautiful you know

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Speaker 7: dance and he was wearing a grillette.

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Speaker 8: That's one of those angles that goes we've mentioned before.

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00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 7: He said, I'm worthless and I was like, how could

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Speaker 7: you say that?

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Speaker 2: Look at your daughter.

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Speaker 1: She's like He's like, I can't provide for them.

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Speaker 8: But this is not what things will look like in

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Speaker 8: the future.

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00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 7: Dona says, what people are seeing now are people that

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Speaker 7: are just destroyed and broken, but that's not what they are.

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Speaker 7: You know, their survivors, those communities in Forest and in Morton,

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Speaker 7: you know where they've seen a doubling of students because

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00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 7: kids are still going to school, they're still situating, they're

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00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 7: still going to Kissianas, they're still having baptisms. They're on

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Speaker 7: Sundays packed, and they're they're grateful that they're in this country,

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Speaker 7: and they don't want.

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Speaker 1: To leave, and they want to stay in Mississippi. By

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Speaker 1: the way, they love Mississippi.

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Speaker 2: They love Mississippi.

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Speaker 8: Many other immigrants we met in Mississippi came here as adults.

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Speaker 8: They build a life on scratch and that brings a

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Speaker 8: certain feeling with it, the fear that everything might disappear

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Speaker 8: one day and they will have nothing to show for

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Speaker 8: all their efforts. In a way, it's story of very

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Speaker 1: My thanks to Mie Massies for producing that story. And

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Speaker 1: a lot has happened since Beinn and I traveled to Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: Back in February, COVID hit plants faced workers shortages, and

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Speaker 1: Elena could not find a job in construction as she

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, dear listener, don't forget to tune in.

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Speaker 1: Next week, we're going to be bringing you an update

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Speaker 1: on this story from Mississippi. I traveled to that state

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Speaker 1: going to hear some new voices and also some familiar ones.

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Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, some of the people that

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Speaker 7: needed now when people you know, were going home and

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Speaker 1: That and so much more. On next weeks, our long

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Speaker 1: documentary on Mississippi. We'll see you here. This episode was

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Speaker 1: Trees and Sophia Parisa car The Latino USA team includes

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Speaker 1: Our Latino USA Fellows are Elisa Baena and Monica Morales.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I can't imagine all the chicken they sell,

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Speaker 1: your Crispy chicken, chicken, Dender popcorn chicken, chicken, grilled chicken, Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to eat any chicken. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what are you going to order?

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