Ira finds a ridiculous comment thread on the Internet about an optical illusion. (3 minutes)
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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. (2 ½ minutes)
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.