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American Nightmare: Chinatown's People Smuggling Empire

Intelligence Squared

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The American Dream Is More Alive Than Ever

In parts of china they referred to the united states as the gold mountain. There was a fetishization of america as this place where one could make a new life in a fortune. The snakehead story really raises questions about who we let in to to certain borders and what should be the criteria which we judge people to become citizens. Do you think the American dream will ever die is it more alive than ever i don't think it will ever die.

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