
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Journey to the American Border
Every single person across the border has a story like this. I met a woman named Julie. She's Colombian. She's gay was was being routinely beaten by her family and couldn't live in her country anymore as she saidI couldn't get a job because I was being discriminated against My my partner we were disgraced we had we had to go we had you know we decided to make make the journey. It takes weeks and weeks and weeks They find a smuggler they give the smuggler essentially all the money that they have and they get across the border And she's in New York now one of you know 70,000 or so immigrants have come But it's kind of it's you
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