What do the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" find when they arrive in the U.S. today? More than a century after Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus" was engraved on the Statue of Liberty, the American dream and the American reality for immigrants have both changed dramatically. Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, takes inventory of the myths and truths of modern immigration with Think host Krys Boyd at noon and 9 p.m..
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London filmmaker Marc Silver looks at American border security through the dark lens of a forensic anthropologist who helps identify the remains of undocumented migrants for the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner in Arizona. He produced a short film about American policies and factors that may cause more migrant deaths, and we can see the doc thanks to the NY Times.
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