Host Ira Glass plays a voicemail containing something very common but very
rare to hear: an elected official directly asking a lobbyist for money.
(4 minutes).
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Act Three: Yes, In My Backyard
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Act Two: A Dave in Court
A judge in a suburban New Jersey courtroom wants the people who come before him to see the rules as fair.
Act Two: The Border Between America and America
If you haven't spent much time in the southwest, you may not know about this, but there are these border patrol checkpoints that are just in the middle of interstate highways and other roads... not at the border.
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Act Three: An Awful Place That You’re Lucky To Get To
Ira Glass reads a favorite passage from the writing of the recently deceased poet Donald Hall.
Act Four: Let’s Do the Numbers
One of the things we were excited to investigate when we went to Alabama was to answer the question at the heart of the immigration debate: what does it cost taxpayers when we let in millions of immigrants, documented and undocumented? In Albertville, how much was it? We asked economist Kim Rueben and her colleague Erin Huffer to run the numbers.
Act Five: Today
In 2012, the fever broke, and the Albertville city council stopped targeting Latino residents.