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What Is Your Emergency?

2/1/202659 min

911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.

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Prologue: A collection of 911 calls where you can hear immigration enforcement moving through different cities and leaving chaos in their wake. (9 minutes)Act One: More 911 calls, including people on the line with dispatchers as ICE is chasing them, trying to puzzle out their next moves. (22 minutes)Act Two: Home Depots keep getting raided over and over again in Los Angeles. And day laborers are still showing up in store park...

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First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

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  2. Ira Glass· Host0:34

    Okay, we're in.

  3. Speaker 00:35

    Digging for an old recording in a storage space with seventy boxes of old tapes.

  4. Ira Glass· Host0:40

    [laughing] Oh, my God.

  5. Speaker 00:42

    And as luck would have it...

  6. Ira Glass· Host0:43

    I can't believe it. This is the one, two, three. This is the fourth box I'm opening, and literally right here. [upbeat music] I think this is exactly what I was looking for.

  7. Speaker 00:53

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  8. Ira Glass· Host1:03

    Okay, I really am stunned.

  9. Speaker 01:05

    That link is also in the show notes of this episode. Thanks.

  10. Speaker 21:09

    First floor.

  11. Speaker 01:11

    A quick warning, there are curse words that are un-beeped in today's episode of the show. If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.

  12. Ira Glass· Host1:25

    Back when federal immigration agents launched big operations in North Carolina,

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