Host Ira Glass visits refugee camps we don’t call refugee camps—right on our country’s doorstep. (14 minutes)
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Act Two: How the Other Side Leaves
Reporter James Spring visits a refugee camp in Tijuana, Mexico filled with Ukranians fleeing the war.
Act One: I Was A Teenage Smuggler
Because the U.S. doesn’t usually prosecute anyone under 18 for the crime of smuggling people illegally across the border from Mexico, tons of teenagers do it, for money.
Act Three: Louisiana
Ben Calhoun talks to a man in ICE detention in Louisiana about how he and people around him are following the election.
More by Ira Glass
Act One: The Audition
Ira’s story of Yibin Li continues.
Act Three: Maybe Pay Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union.
Act Four: A Matter of Principal (podcast only)
Protestors came out across Russia after the Ukraine invasion.