The book is being published in the uk. i mean i should say she she died in prison i believe in 2014 for you looking back on this story that was your early journalism That notion that if you can just make it there that in one generation you can make it big and that i think does play an important role in this story. The broader questions about what do we do about these massive populations of undocumented people who are in desperate straights feels to me more resonant than ever.
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe joins us on the podcast to tell the story of an unlikely criminal mastermind, Sister Ping - a middle-aged, hardworking woman who is highly respected among her community. Originally from Fujian province, China, for years she runs an incredibly lucrative people smuggling business from New York's Chinatown until she comes into trouble with violent gangsters and then later the FBI. In conversation with our host Poppy Damon, they discuss immigration, the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and the questions of who gets to stay. They also speak about Patrick's involvement in the Oscar-nominated documentary starring Nan Goldin and directed by Laura Poitras, All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
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