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Previously on America Divided.
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Where do I go out there?
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Go out here and take a look. Do you feel
like Purdue is responsible ultimately
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for the heroin epidemic?
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Absolutely. Purdue Plummer committed a
gross act of negligence.
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This disease is hollowing out suburban
and small town America.
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Welcome back to the show. Fans of not
being able to go to the bathroom without
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your birth certificate scored a victory
when North Carolina's governor signed
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HB2.
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New law that people must use bathrooms
of the gender on their birth
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certificates. Bathrooms. A lot of people
are talking about bathrooms. I signed
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that bill because if I didn't, the
expectation of privacy of North Carolina
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citizens. PayPal today canceled plans
for a 400 job expansion. Could lose
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roughly $2 billion in federal funds.
That violates the federal civil rights
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I told you we weren't done with 2010.
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My name is Zach Galifianakis.
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You know, as an important celebrity,
I've been called a lot of things in my
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life. Inspiration, genius, visionary,
the guy with the beard from that movie.
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But the label for which I'm most proud
is North Carolinian.
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And genius.
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With so much love for North Carolina, I
have to say these last few years have
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been confusing.
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North Carolina used to be all about
basketball and barbecue, but now...
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Now it seems like it's all about
bathrooms.
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I thought talking about people using the
bathroom was a job for comedians.
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Why are they so obsessed with bathrooms?
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Is all this shouting about bathrooms
really about something bigger?
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So I call Ari Berman.
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Ari looks like your girlfriend's little
brother, but he's been writing books and
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magazine stories about North Carolina
for years. What's up? Well, I'm watching
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all this stuff that's going on in North
Carolina, and it seems like the tensions
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and the energy keeps getting worse and
worse and worse. Now there's this
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bathroom thing that's going on. And from
there, you know, there were lefties,
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there were righties.
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But we all kind of, there was a balance
back then.
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Why now does it seem like there's just
the shift in one particular direction?
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Well, in 2010, Republicans took control
of the state for the first time since
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1896. A ton of money.
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pumped in to local races that really
swung the outcome. And that was, in many
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ways, the untold story of the election.
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And we saw a dramatic shift to the right
like we had never seen before in North
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Carolina history.
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Democratic Party essentially collapsed
in North Carolina. It's one party rule,
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and so the only opposition to their
policies is really in the street.
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This was led by the North Carolina end
of Lacey Heath.
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The fact is, the NAACP is not just
organizing in the big cities. They're
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organizing in very rural, very white
parts of the state.
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They can say, it hasn't always been this
way. We're a state that invested in
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public education, in the environment,
that cared about voting rights, and now
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we're moving backwards.
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After my call with Ari Berman, I want to
know why all of this is happening to my
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home state.
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All this stuff that I'm hearing about,
Is it all connected?
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And for me, this is not about Democrats
or Republicans.
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This is coming more from a North
Carolina point of view.
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It's kind of a southern point of view.
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It feels like somehow that North
Carolina lost its way.
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It's a system that effectively sweeps
millions of poor people into second
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status. Did we invest in those
communities?
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No. Instead, we declared war.
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What we have today is a wealth gap that
is
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huge.
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The working class has been hammered.
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These are human beings. These are
people.
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What can we do to get that point across?
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telling us that we're not doing enough
is causing us to explode.
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It is not a matter of opinion anymore.
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It is clearly exposed.
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What do we do? They can only win by
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dividing America.
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We know that the way things are working
are working at all.
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That's right.
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If you just keep pushing.
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If you just keep trying, if you refuse
to let the nightmares have the last say,
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eventually the dark will break, the sun
will come out, and you will be in a
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brand new day.
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If there's no struggle, there can be no
progress.
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You started working in this area 20 how
many years ago? At least 26, I think
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maybe 26 years.
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And there wasn't heroin here then?
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Oh, no.
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But the only thing we had was domestic
violence. You know, people get drunk and
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then they fight and that's it.
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Right. But when this heroin started,
that's when we started getting the
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burglaries and the shootings and
especially robbery.
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When did you start to go like, oh, this
is an epidemic?
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I would say within the last year.
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Uh -huh. We started getting a lot of
overdose from heroin coming in.
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We were not prepared at all.
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As I ride along with Officer Willie
Hooper on his nightly patrol, he tells
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that overdoses are transforming the work
of the police.
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In the battle to save lives, the police
rely on Narcan.
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an anti -overdose drug that can bring
someone back from the brink of death.
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But as addicts overdose again and again,
Narcan has done little to slow the
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epidemic.
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139, go ahead.
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That's correct, we're on our way.
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Do you feel like the number of ODs that
you're seeing is going up?
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It's definitely going up, 100%. And the
fatality rate is going up, right?
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Bring your medic down the alley. They're
going to move the cruisers out of the
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way.
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How much Narcan they give her?
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What I'm learning about undocumented
people in the Rio Grande Valley applies
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them everywhere.
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They live life on a nice edge.
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They know that millions have been
deported, so they're insecure,
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exploitation.
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Doing jobs no one else will.
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They make these sacrifices so that their
children can have a better life.
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But I'm hearing that over the past few
years in Texas, Many families have been
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living in fear that even their American
-born children, citizens of the United
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States, are at risk.
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These women are telling me that in the
past several years, across the state,
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registrars who issue birth certificates
stopped accepting the matricula
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consular, the kind of ID undocumented
immigrants carry.
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even though Texas used to accept it and
other states still do.
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Nor do the registrars accept the
certificate of live
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birth.
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I'm finding this really upsetting a
birth certificate is so basic it's your
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proof of existence
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The thing you need to get all other ID.
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What's going on here?
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Is Texas trying to make the next
generation stateless?
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Y ellos cómo se sientan, ¿no?
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Pues, a veces es triste y difícil
porque, pues, mi niño abraza a los
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Dice, tú vas a ir a la escuela igual que
yo. Dice, aunque no tengas el papel.
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Es muy difícil porque a veces nosotros
estamos, a veces quizás en las sombras.
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Y no contamos lo que en realidad pasamos
como...
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But the undocumented families are
fighting back.
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They filed a lawsuit against the state
for denying their babies the citizenship
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guaranteed under the 14th Amendment.
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Just like with those voter ID laws,
Texas says it's trying to prevent fraud.
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But even the judge in the case calls
this fraud an imaginary concern.
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Attorney Jennifer Harbury says it's all
part of an anti -immigrant campaign.
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Just like the whole offensive notion
that immigrants are having anchor babies
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they can stay here.
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How do you see this issue of anchor
babies?
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in relation to the Constitution and to
the 14th Amendment?
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Well, it's preposterous. And let me
begin by saying, you know, my father's
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family and my father himself are all
immigrants. They also came here running
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from extinction, let us just say.
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So I'm an anchor baby then, right? But
under the Constitution, the Due Process
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Clause, 14th Amendment, it says anyone
who is born in the United States is a
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citizen of the United States, period.
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If Harbury's right, then how can the
Texas policy stand?
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And will it?
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I grew up around mountain people, and
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they're about as conservative as they
come.
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So if the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
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chapters in these mountains, I want to
see these folks for myself.
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Sure enough, this NAACP chapter is a
little short on the C, unless you count
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cake and coffee.
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I'll just grab a piece of this and we'll
chat.
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All of it's free?
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It's a donation.
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Oh, a donation.
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You know, there's always a donation box
somewhere.
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They always try to get you.
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Well, thanks for having me.
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They have as many reasons to be here as
there are members.
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Voting rights. School cuts.
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Medicaid expansion, turning back of
rights for women and gay people and
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Americans. Really, though, they are all
sitting at this table because for them
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it comes down to one thing, and that's
the influence of money and how they
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it's hijacked the state.
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But couldn't this just be the
Appalachian version of hippies smoking
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love in hammocks, and complaining
because the other side of North Carolina
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for once?
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After the meeting, one of the members,
Tracy Deaton, tells me that if that's
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what I think, then she has someone I
need to meet. Her father, Leroy.
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Like most of the folks at the meeting,
Tracy was born and raised Appalachian.
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And like most dangerous extremists,
Tracy is a high school librarian.
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She joined the NAACP when the
legislature targeted education for deep
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education has always been one of the
most treasured institutions in North
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Carolina. My family has been in Mitchell
County for my kids' ninth generation.
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Huge advocates of public education.
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Both my parents taught school, my
husband's parents taught school.
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So I became really involved and vocal
with the attacks on public schools.
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That was sort of my tipping point.
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Any of the parents talk to you about
this stuff and agree with you?
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The parents I have spoken with are
frustrated because the resources have
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really cut as far as the bigger class
sizes. They tried to do away with
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teacher's aides last year, and their
salaries were frozen for six years.
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My family is deep in local politics. At
the time when all this started
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happening in North Carolina, my dad was
a commissioner.
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My brother was on the Board of
Education.
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My mother was on the City Council.
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Under what party?
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Other Republicans.
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Yeah.
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Hi. Okay.
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I understand that you and your family
come from more of a Republican
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Right. People just choked when you said
that.
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What do you mean by that? I changed my
affiliation from Republican to
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unaffiliated. Right.
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Walk us through when you came to the
point where you're like, I cannot be
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associated with this group.
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There were several things that played
into it. They started picking away at
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educational system. And teachers became
the whipping boy. Education became the
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whipping boy.
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The other thing was some of the health
care issues.
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And it really became personal.
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I'll try not to get emotional.
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Tracy and Sam have a very autistic
child.
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And the demands to meet his needs
medically, socially, family,
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everything is just tremendous.
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And as an example, when he had to go to
the dentist and he didn't understand
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that they're going to put a mask on your
face or they're going to put a drill in
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your mouth or they're going to do this.
He was uncontrollable, unconsolable.
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So they needed to put him to sleep.
Well, insurance wouldn't pay for it.
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And it was $750 or so to have him put to
sleep. So they had to put this child in
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a straitjacket.
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Tracy had to get at his head and hold
his shoulders and head. And Sam had to
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to his feet and hold his feet.
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Leroy tells me there was a bill proposed
that would have made the insurance
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companies pay for the kind of care his
grandson Zeke needed.
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That sat on our senator's desk, his
committee, for three years.
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But what made you connect that dot?
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that the reason Zeke's not getting
proper care is because of what's
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going on politically.
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Politically, that they're taking care of
Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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That's who finances their campaigns.
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I mean, see where their campaign
contributions came from, and you're
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see pharmaceuticals, and you're going to
see insurance companies. They're all in
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bed together.
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And we're talking to people that used to
be Republicans.
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Yeah. You too. Yeah. Yeah. And still
want to be a Republican. So this
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that you're saying to me seems like
common sense.
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It does to me too. No matter if you're
lefty, righty. Righty, we're all humans.
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We're all humans.
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That sounds more like the North Carolina
where I grew up.
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But it seems like you can't take it for
granted anymore that North Carolina is a
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place that educates its kids or takes
care of its disabled.
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It feels like some kind of basic decency
is missing from all this.
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The problem is, I'm still not any closer
to really understanding why.
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Maybe I'm not smart enough to figure it
out for myself, but I found someone who
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is.
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It's been a couple of weeks since my
trip to Dayton, but I'm still reeling
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the experience.
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I learned so much about the origins of
the addiction crisis, but now I want to
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know, why Dayton?
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I've read that two economists at
Princeton University have come up with
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intriguing insight into the crisis,
which might hold the answer.
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A connection between the rising death
toll and middle America's economic
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decline.
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Professors Anne Case and her Nobel Prize
-winning husband, Angus Deaton, have
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long studied inequality, poverty, and
health.
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So the mortality rates in middle age in
all of the European countries and among
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Hispanics and blacks in America has been
falling at about 2 % a year.
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And that's been going on for 100 years.
But in the late 1990s, among white non
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-Hispanics, the rates started to rise at
about half a percent a year.
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So the rest of the developed world
continuing to fall, suddenly you see
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wedge building between whites in America
and all of the sister countries we
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might compare ourselves to.
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When you had that moment of discovering
that it was higher there, was that
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surprising? You know, at that point we
almost fell off our chairs because this
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is not supposed to happen. We really
thought we must have made a mistake.
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So give me an idea of what the scale of
this problem is.
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From year 2000 to 2014, if the death
rates had stayed at what they had been
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1999, about 200 ,000 people in middle
age would not have died.
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And that's why it's equally split
between men and women.
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Cancer and heart disease continue to go
down. So we think, okay, it must be
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traffic accidents that have gone up, or
it must be murders that have gone up.
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They're still going down. And then there
it was, and it's accidental overdoses.
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Almost in lockstep, suicide and drug
overdoses are going up in tandem.
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And cirrhosis and alcoholic liver
disease have also risen really
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When we put those together, we think of
them as being all deaths of despair.
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Is it about the decline of working class
jobs?
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The working class have been hammered
with a high school degree used to be
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to get a good job with benefits, with on
-the -job training.
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A lot of those jobs went overseas, and
they're not coming back.
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Sandra, one of the moms I met, says
she's gone to Edinburgh City Hall four
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and still hasn't succeeded in getting a
birth certificate for her baby.
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She's hoping things will be different if
I come with her.
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All things that if you're undocumented
are impossible to get.
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So then parents who are undocumented but
their children are born here in the U
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.S. can't get their kids birth
certificates?
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But isn't that enough to be considered
an American citizen that you were born
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the United States?
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I'm not denying that at all.
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What I'm saying is, if she is a mother
and she's not a U .S. born, then this is
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what we require from her.
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And so her next option is what?
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In a case like this, I can refer her and
have her send all the documents that
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she's got to Austin, see if Austin will
accept that.
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Okay.
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Is there anything that I can help you
all with? Yeah, actually, yeah. I'd love
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for you to clarify this document.
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If you go through the state of Texas,
yeah.
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Then they will accept that ID and other
forms of proof of residence?
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Yes. And when did they start handing out
this form?
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It's been years.
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Well, she's been here four times and she
said no one has ever given her this
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form or explained it to her. She
probably didn't ask the right questions
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don't know if...
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She understood or not.
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These are in English.
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Do you have the applications in Spanish?
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These applications are in English. Let
me see if we have it in Spanish.
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Okay. Thank you.
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Apparently the state does not
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operate in Spanish.
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So it has to be translated.
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Okay. That seems crazy, doesn't it?
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State of Texas.
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Attorneys for the family suing the state
told me that parents have mailed in
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these exact documents and still have
been denied birth certificates.
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Months later, Texas agreed to settle the
birth certificate case and loosen up
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the ID requirements.
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Attorneys for the families believe
they've won a victory, but say they
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won't know for a while.
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The state has nine months to comply with
the agreement.
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After my time in the mountains, I'm
hoping Gene Nickel can help me get to
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bottom of the changes I'm seeing in
North Carolina.
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Nickel is a UNC law professor who has
made speaking up for North Carolina's
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his mission in life.
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So, of course, the Internet trolls say
he's a fraud and the legislature wanted
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him fired.
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We have in North Carolina the fastest
growing poverty rate in the country.
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And we have folks who took over the
government four or five years ago and
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decided, looking at that, OK, here's
what we're going to do.
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We're going to usher in the largest cut.
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unemployment compensation in American
history. We kicked 100 ,000 people off
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food stamps. We're going to kick 500
,000 people off of Medicaid.
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And then studies out of Harvard indicate
that that single decision means that
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every year, probably 1 ,000 people in
North Carolina are going to die.
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The world is upside down in this
theology.
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It seems completely opposite the way it
needs to be.
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I think it's fair to say that we have a
government which is presently operating
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in bold contrast and opposition to the
fundamental values of the people of
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Carolina. But not to get too political,
because I'm just a serious journalist. I
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know, I know.
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That's right, bad Jesus.
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Yeah, some people know me from The
Hangover. Those days are long gone.
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How do these people get in power? What
is the...
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When we step back and look at these
policies and we go, how were we fooled
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tricked or how does that happen? How
does it happen? Well, you know, part of
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is money and politics. The relationship
between money and politics drives our
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politics, makes political leaders and
campaigns more congenial to those who
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powerful economic interests. There's
just giant social study that's been
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released, finding once again that the
interest of the bottom quarter of
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Americans.
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Has no impact.
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Not a little impact. Not underrated
impact. Has no impact on the outcomes
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of the legislative process in the United
States Congress.
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Citizens United sort of blew the roof
off.
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It said for the first time in American
history that corporations can spend
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unlimited amounts of their treasuries on
American political process.
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The dollars spent by large corporate
interests in our politics.
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They're very wise investments. They pay
heavily. In North Carolina, they
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typically want two things. One, they
want tax breaks, but they probably weigh
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even more heavily on the regulatory
side. So they want to make sure that we
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don't have what they consider strangling
regulation.
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So one of the ways that plays out in
North Carolina is powerful economic
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interests trumping environmental
concerns.
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After listening to Case and Deaton, I
feel compelled to return to Dayton.
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As I pass empty lots and boarded up
buildings, I keep hearing Anne Case's
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deaths of despair.
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It's hard to reconcile what I'm seeing
with what I've learned of the city's
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past. The Silicon Valley of its day.
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Dayton once claimed more patents per
capita than any other U .S. city.
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It was a thriving middle -class
community.
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But beginning in the 1970s, the kind of
work that once made middle America
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thrive began to disappear.
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Dayton held out longer than most, but in
more recent decades, its industry and
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its population began to dwindle.
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Now the city and its workers have
struggled to find an economic future.
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We are excited to have you here to learn
more about this great opportunity to be
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in on the ground floor with this
growing, innovative, global company.
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Thank you. All right. How's everybody
doing?
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All right. Good?
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All right.
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So our facility is the world's largest
facility for making automotive
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glass. It's right here. Right here in
this area.
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After we hire you, you're going to be
put under like a 90 -day probation
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It's $12 an hour.
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Once you become a Fumio employee, you
automatically get $12 .84.
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$12 .84.
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Plenty of opportunities, ladies and
gentlemen.
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Plenty of opportunities.
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Here's the railroad tracks.
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And nothing really has moved into this
area?
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No. I mean, other than FUYA.
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This whole area was basically GM. I
mean, at one point, like city blocks
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city blocks.
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How many jobs would you estimate that
this supported at one point?
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I'm sure well over 10 ,000 people.
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Smaller manufacturers, which there's
quite a few around here, too, that were
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like part suppliers.
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Right. So when the truck plant closed,
they closed.
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And then because they closed, this place
closed. And it's this domino effect
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that ripples out from the center of GM
for miles and miles, frankly, and I'll
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update the mechanic down to, you know, a
pizza place up the street.
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This whole area used to live or die
basically by this plant.
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Matt Clark is an organizer for the
IUECWA.
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the union that represented workers at
the storied GM Moraine truck and bus
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plant.
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It is now home to the Chinese auto glass
manufacturer, Fuyao.
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This bar that we're in right now would
normally be a pretty hopping place.
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it was. I mean, you know, the first
factory job I had was almost right after
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high school. I got hired in right next
door here at Moraine Assembly.
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And this place was crowded.
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It's changed drastically.
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And by like 2006, plants are closing.
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So now all of a sudden, people can't pay
their mortgage.
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At the same time, you can't sell a house
because the housing market is crap.
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So then you end up with all these
foreclosures. Everyone starts bailing
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right. Now what you have is abandoned
houses.
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everywhere all through Dayton. And
abandoned houses means, you know, an
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unfortunate element growing within that
drug use and this influx of
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drugs, particularly heroin.
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If I'm wanting to stay in Dayton to
work, where am I looking to get one of
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jobs that's like a job where I can have
some kind of house and a family? I think
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that's... It's increasingly difficult
here.
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Obviously, the new employer that's moved
into the old Marin Assembly Plant is
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doing foo -yow. I know quite a few
people that are working in there. When I
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to those people, they say, this is
nothing compared to what we had, and I'm
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making half of what I used to make.
Let's talk about the young people.
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What are they looking forward to? What
are their expectations, the 2 .5 kids in
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the house and all that stability?
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It doesn't seem like that's out there.
It's not.
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They probably had parents that worked at
those plants or other family members or
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grandparents, whatever the case may be,
and they see what happened.
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I mean, let's be honest. If I'm an 18-,
19 -year -old kid in Dayton, if I was to
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drive over here and drive around here,
it would not look like a bright and
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shining future for me.
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I think, unfortunately, there is a sense
of despair and a nasty sense of anger.
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I think in terms of almost feeling...
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betrayed in a way. And I think a lot of
people in this country right now have a
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hard time placing that anger. Right, but
I see this generation really paying the
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price. A lot of them that we've met that
are the ones that are dying of heroin
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overdoses. I don't know how it gets
better just yet.
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I'd like to see something done about the
illegal alien problem that would be so
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sensitive and so understanding about
labor needs and human needs that that
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problem wouldn't come up. As we have
kind of made illegal some kinds of labor
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that I'd like to see legal, we're doing
two things. We're creating a whole
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society of really honorable, decent,
family -loving people that are in
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of the law. And secondly, we're
exacerbating relations with Mexico.
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They're talking about putting up a
fence.
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Why don't we work out some recognition
of our mutual problems, make it possible
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for them to come here legally with a
work permit, and then while they're
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and earning here, they pay taxes here.
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And when they want to go back, they can
go back, and they can cross and open the
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border both ways.
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Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. didn't
quite open the border. But as
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president, each did extend legal status
to millions of undocumented immigrants
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living in the U .S.
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So how did we go from that to this?
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Listen, we should enforce the law. How
do we enforce the law? Yes, we should
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deport them. We should build a wall. We
should triple the border patrol.
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When Mexico sends its people, they're
not sending their best.
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They're not sending you.
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They're not sending you.
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They're sending people that have lots of
problems.
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They're bringing drugs.
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They're bringing crime.
457
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:03,460
They're rapists. And some, I assume, are
good people.
458
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,740
criminals and rapists.
459
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:10,440
I've seen multiple studies which
indicate that violent crime among
460
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,420
immigrants is actually lower than in the
general population.
461
00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:19,060
I need to talk to someone who can
explain the attitude shift.
462
00:35:19,620 --> 00:35:23,960
So I'm going to meet with Dan Stein, the
head of a group called the Federation
463
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:29,800
for American Immigration Reform, FAIR, a
lobbying group based in Washington, D
464
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,380
.C. They believe we're letting too many
people in.
465
00:35:33,710 --> 00:35:35,470
both illegals and legals.
466
00:35:37,010 --> 00:35:40,310
Given where I've been, I decide to start
with the babies.
467
00:35:41,930 --> 00:35:44,470
You've used the term anchor babies.
468
00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:46,850
Can you tell me what you mean by that
term?
469
00:35:47,210 --> 00:35:49,490
It's an anchor. It's a grappling hook.
It's an attachment.
470
00:35:49,750 --> 00:35:53,390
It's a foot in the door. And I don't
understand why that's derogatory, by the
471
00:35:53,390 --> 00:35:56,810
way, but some people seem to feel it is,
but it's descriptive of the fact that
472
00:35:56,810 --> 00:36:00,010
it provides a foot in the door. I think
people come to this country and then
473
00:36:00,010 --> 00:36:03,070
have the babies so that they won't get
kicked out.
474
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,640
there are many, many reasons why people
come to this country. Nobody comes to
475
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,200
this country devoid of understanding or
information about how U .S. law works.
476
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:19,200
I recently saw a clip of the 1980
presidential debate between George
477
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:19,999
Bush Sr.
478
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:25,340
and Ronald Reagan where they talked
about immigration and spoke of...
479
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:30,120
undocumented immigrants in this country
being good people, hardworking people,
480
00:36:30,260 --> 00:36:33,460
people that we should find more kindness
and compassion.
481
00:36:33,780 --> 00:36:37,540
I mean, these are the words that came
out of these two conservative heroes'
482
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:44,240
mouths. What has changed so dramatically
that
483
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:46,560
between then and now?
484
00:36:46,780 --> 00:36:49,700
It isn't fair to attribute border
anarchy.
485
00:36:50,110 --> 00:36:51,110
to compassion.
486
00:36:51,330 --> 00:36:54,530
It's not a compassionate position to say
that anybody can just run into the
487
00:36:54,530 --> 00:36:57,610
country and be expected to be treated
like everybody else.
488
00:36:57,830 --> 00:37:04,150
The conversation around who these people
are has gone from
489
00:37:05,330 --> 00:37:08,970
hardworking immigrants who are here to
make a better life for themselves and
490
00:37:08,970 --> 00:37:13,330
their children to something very, very
different in this present day. First of
491
00:37:13,330 --> 00:37:17,330
all, 1980 was a very long time ago. And
I'm here to tell you that the American
492
00:37:17,330 --> 00:37:22,430
people have been incredibly hospitable,
generous, and open in going through some
493
00:37:22,430 --> 00:37:26,170
of the biggest demographic changes in
any nation in the history of the world.
494
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,460
And here we are today having a debate
right now over whether or not the
495
00:37:30,460 --> 00:37:32,920
government even has the credibility to
control our borders.
496
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:38,200
Okay, so the reality is that at the
moment there are 11 million or more
497
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:43,020
undocumented immigrants living in this
country.
498
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:48,240
What is your wish for that 11 million?
499
00:37:49,339 --> 00:37:53,140
What would you, if you had your way...
Some of them could probably stay. Some
500
00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:55,240
them will have to go home. So are you
saying they should be removed?
501
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,840
Well, not all at once, but there's a
process by which you encourage people to
502
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,180
leave. Some people would be put in
deportation proceedings. Some people
503
00:38:02,180 --> 00:38:02,979
back home.
504
00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:06,500
Nothing about the law, nothing about
Congress, nothing about the American
505
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:10,040
have ever said, the way you immigrate
here is to break the law and then wait
506
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,700
around for the next amnesty program.
507
00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:14,740
I guess we're at an impasse.
508
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,900
Where I see refugees and people
struggling to make a better life for
509
00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:24,320
children, Dan Stein sees lawbreakers,
pure and simple.
510
00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:27,640
But could it be that cut and dry?
511
00:38:28,660 --> 00:38:32,980
I'm going to be meeting a young woman
whose story I've heard is anything but
512
00:38:32,980 --> 00:38:33,980
straightforward.
513
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,740
In North Carolina these days, it's easy
to forget in the middle of all of our
514
00:38:46,740 --> 00:38:50,040
political battles, we've been fighting
an environmental battle, too.
515
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,300
When you take a closer look, though, you
quickly understand that, like so much
516
00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:57,740
of what I've seen since I came home,
it's hard to separate one from the
517
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,600
A spill in North Carolina, thousands of
pounds of ash dumped into the Dan River.
518
00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:07,060
One of the largest spills of coal ash
ever reported in American history.
519
00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:12,300
Officials estimate that as much as 82
,000 tons of ash were released into the
520
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:14,100
river. And it's been spreading ever
since.
521
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,700
So I didn't know what coal ash was
either, but if you think about it, it's
522
00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:23,800
of simple. Coal ash is what is left
after you burn coal.
523
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,540
This stuff has been piling up for
decades.
524
00:39:27,470 --> 00:39:31,290
They keep a lot of it in what are pretty
much lakes of coal ash mud.
525
00:39:32,150 --> 00:39:37,410
In the big spill, one of these coal ash
lakes dumped into the Dan River.
526
00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:43,990
The ash contains heavy metals and
hexavelic chromium, the Aaron Brockovich
527
00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:46,270
chemical, and it's kind of radioactive.
528
00:39:47,750 --> 00:39:52,310
If it's in your groundwater, it is
probably a pretty good recipe for cancer
529
00:39:52,310 --> 00:39:53,310
heart and lung disease.
530
00:39:54,670 --> 00:39:57,990
The coal ash belonged to North
Carolina's governor, Pat McCrory's
531
00:39:57,990 --> 00:40:02,970
former employer, Duke Energy. His
administration has, over the last year,
532
00:40:02,970 --> 00:40:07,230
shielding his old company from lawsuits
filed by local environmental groups.
533
00:40:07,590 --> 00:40:11,470
So sorry about this, but here are some
numbers that I learned about Duke and
534
00:40:11,470 --> 00:40:12,470
Governor McCrory.
535
00:40:13,290 --> 00:40:17,250
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
worked for Duke for 29 years.
536
00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:22,400
The year before McCrory decided to run
for governor, Duke gave the Republican
537
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,580
organization that helps governors get
elected $15 ,000.
538
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:33,060
The year of the coal ash spill, they
gave that same organization $3 million.
539
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,720
And here are four more numbers. I'm
sorry. Stay focused.
540
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:45,900
After the spill that poisoned the Dan
River, the state fined Duke, a $23
541
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:49,040
company, a little less than $100 ,000.
542
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,800
That's like someone making $60 ,000 a
year and getting fined 30 cents.
543
00:40:56,340 --> 00:41:01,060
It seems to me like the $3 million, that
was a pretty good investment.
544
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:09,760
When the Duke Energy Plant began its
operations in the early 1970s, fly ash
545
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,580
would fall on our land, rooftops of our
homes and our vehicles and cover them
546
00:41:14,580 --> 00:41:17,480
worse than the pollen in the springtime
around here.
547
00:41:18,060 --> 00:41:21,100
We could write our names on the cars
because it was just that thick.
548
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,780
As a child, I had problems with my
bladder.
549
00:41:25,340 --> 00:41:27,500
My mother developed heart problems.
550
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:34,560
They ended up causing her death on
September 28, 2014, of a massive heart
551
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:35,560
attack.
552
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,160
You can't drive two miles in either
direction of the power plant without
553
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,580
a family that has dealt with such
illnesses.
554
00:41:43,980 --> 00:41:48,320
My father was a 32 -year veteran of the
Department of Environmental Quality.
555
00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:51,180
I started with the division in 2004.
556
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,900
I was proud of my job, and I was proud
of my agency.
557
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,820
But I walked away from all of it in 2013
because I could no longer in good
558
00:42:00,820 --> 00:42:05,360
conscience stay with an agency that was
being dismantled and redirected into a
559
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,560
pro -corporation, polluter -friendly
agency.
560
00:42:08,590 --> 00:42:12,890
DEQ press releases these days read more
like a re -election ad than
561
00:42:12,890 --> 00:42:14,130
environmental position statement.
562
00:42:14,470 --> 00:42:18,590
We are just tired of people dying and
that's not necessary.
563
00:42:19,010 --> 00:42:24,290
The people that are in position to make
decisions to move things are not
564
00:42:24,290 --> 00:42:25,290
listening.
565
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:31,760
So evidently there's something else
involved that stimulate them and that
566
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,220
be money that is placed in their
pockets.
567
00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:39,280
I serve as Duke Energy's Environmental
Affairs Director for North Carolina.
568
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,260
is a complicated issue, but we're
focused on trying to get it right.
569
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:49,760
The people are tired of this being
politicized. We are dying with...
570
00:42:50,110 --> 00:42:54,310
undrinkable water, then we won't help.
We don't care about your re -election
571
00:42:54,310 --> 00:42:57,390
bids or none of that. We won't help
because we're dying.
572
00:42:58,250 --> 00:43:04,110
To see the heartache in my child's face
because she knows I'm sick,
573
00:43:04,370 --> 00:43:06,630
that's heartbreaking for me.
574
00:43:07,870 --> 00:43:13,670
I don't want the next generation to have
to face the same things that we're
575
00:43:13,670 --> 00:43:14,670
facing now.
576
00:43:14,950 --> 00:43:18,670
And that's why I'll continue to speak up
for justice.
577
00:43:21,130 --> 00:43:22,130
Thank you.
578
00:43:22,790 --> 00:43:23,790
Thank you.
579
00:43:37,370 --> 00:43:40,710
I had three strokes, and then I had a
heart attack.
580
00:43:41,210 --> 00:43:43,250
I had to get cysts put in my heart.
581
00:43:45,330 --> 00:43:49,650
These are the mounds of coal ash right
here to my left.
582
00:43:50,220 --> 00:43:51,220
Covered with grass.
583
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:54,060
That's all coal ash underneath that?
584
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:55,400
Yeah.
585
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,940
Do you know most people on both sides of
the road?
586
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,200
Yes, I do.
587
00:44:00,460 --> 00:44:06,240
The Harrison's residence right here,
their father had lung cancer. And
588
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:07,240
the house right here.
589
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,820
Him and his wife both passed away from
cancer.
590
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,120
Now we're getting ready to approach
Goolsby's trailer park.
591
00:44:14,340 --> 00:44:16,020
They received do not drink letters.
592
00:44:16,930 --> 00:44:19,770
This whole trailer park is contaminated
water.
593
00:44:21,270 --> 00:44:24,730
And what's the explanation behind it?
They want to say it's naturally
594
00:44:25,690 --> 00:44:26,770
That's what they want to say.
595
00:44:30,950 --> 00:44:32,750
If they do know, then why?
596
00:44:33,990 --> 00:44:35,090
Then what is that?
597
00:44:35,530 --> 00:44:37,050
If they know and they don't care.
598
00:44:37,650 --> 00:44:39,930
Money? Greed? The almighty dollar.
599
00:44:41,270 --> 00:44:43,870
It's the root of all evil. It's what it
says in the Bible.
600
00:44:44,550 --> 00:44:45,770
And I do believe it.
601
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,720
Because they'll do anything for it.
602
00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:04,520
This is where my mother, Annie, is laid
to rest.
603
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:12,880
And as far as your mom's legacy and as
far as your mom, what do you think she
604
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:13,880
needs you to do?
605
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,110
Continue. I mean, I just can't give up.
606
00:45:17,490 --> 00:45:18,490
It's that simple.
607
00:45:18,710 --> 00:45:19,710
It's that simple.
608
00:45:26,110 --> 00:45:32,530
Even though the birth certificate case
has been settled
609
00:45:32,530 --> 00:45:37,170
for now, I hear that there are many
Americans who are struggling to prove
610
00:45:37,170 --> 00:45:38,170
full citizenship.
611
00:45:40,310 --> 00:45:44,010
And I'm going to meet a woman in New
York who says this happened to her.
612
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,120
Claudia Palacios is an activist for
immigrant rights and considers herself a
613
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:56,120
radical, which you might find surprising
because for years, Claudia was a United
614
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:57,120
States Marine.
615
00:45:58,540 --> 00:46:01,300
What did you do when you were a Marine?
616
00:46:01,540 --> 00:46:02,900
I was a combat photographer.
617
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:08,280
Oh, wow. So I would embed in different
teams and just capture what was
618
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,380
happening. Where are you from
originally?
619
00:46:10,860 --> 00:46:12,960
My parents migrated to the state of
Texas.
620
00:46:13,220 --> 00:46:17,520
So you're first generation born in the U
.S.? I am, yes. I'm first born and
621
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:23,260
first generation indigenous Mexican
migrants, yes. And were you born in a
622
00:46:23,260 --> 00:46:25,260
of traditional Texas hospital?
623
00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:30,520
No, I was not. Due to fear of
deportation, my mother chose not to.
624
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,340
give birth in a hospital.
625
00:46:32,620 --> 00:46:37,140
I was born through a midwife, and
midwifery in Texas is very common.
626
00:46:37,540 --> 00:46:41,420
They're allowed to file certificates,
and then those are presented to the
627
00:46:41,420 --> 00:46:46,440
of Texas, and then you're supposed to,
like, get a vital record. It says that
628
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,420
you were born in U .S. territory.
629
00:46:48,780 --> 00:46:53,100
You're granted, like, social security
and all these other things, but what
630
00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:54,680
you're not granted is a birth
certificate.
631
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,860
So when you signed up for the Marines,
what documents did they ask you for?
632
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,340
This is actually the paper that I gave
to my recruiter.
633
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,120
And it's what was signed by the midwife.
634
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,120
I mean, this is enough.
635
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:14,260
And I joined as a citizen, not as a
migrant, not as like anything else. I am
636
00:47:14,260 --> 00:47:15,260
a citizen.
637
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:21,520
When I joined the military, my mother
and little sister decided that like they
638
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,220
were going to migrate back to Mexico.
And at that point, I was in Okinawa,
639
00:47:25,220 --> 00:47:27,480
Japan. I applied for a passport.
640
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,020
And that was the first time I was
denied.
641
00:47:31,540 --> 00:47:32,600
It was unreal.
642
00:47:32,860 --> 00:47:34,100
It was very unreal.
643
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,540
Claudia's story seems unreal to me, too.
644
00:47:38,020 --> 00:47:42,920
But the more people I talk to, the more
I see that there's a whole class of
645
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,240
disenfranchised people living among us.
646
00:47:45,540 --> 00:47:50,300
I thought it was a mistake. And I
provided additional information that
647
00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:52,800
wanted, and there was just rejection
after rejection.
648
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,760
It's been a struggle of...
649
00:47:55,980 --> 00:47:57,460
almost 10 years now.
650
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:06,900
There's paths for citizenship through
naturalization, through the military,
651
00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:11,400
I don't belong to any other state. So
how could I start that process?
652
00:48:11,740 --> 00:48:13,260
So I'm basically stateless.
653
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,580
What does that mean for your life
personally?
654
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,360
I haven't seen my mother and sister in
years.
655
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,580
Last time I saw them, I was still in the
military in 2010.
656
00:48:25,340 --> 00:48:26,400
So it's going to be six years now.
657
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:33,720
If I'm viewed by the country as a
citizen, where does that leave me?
658
00:48:35,620 --> 00:48:36,660
It's very scary.
659
00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:47,080
Claudia's story is so strange and so
sad.
660
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,140
This is one version of a life without
papers.
661
00:48:51,740 --> 00:48:56,360
You may find yourself stranded in your
own country with no way to see your
662
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,360
family.
663
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:04,340
And Claudia also reminds me that there
are so many people we hardly ever think
664
00:49:04,340 --> 00:49:05,340
about.
665
00:49:05,620 --> 00:49:11,140
They may be professionals, or pick our
food, or be a U .S. Marine.
666
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:17,780
They may not have papers, but they're
here, and they are part of our country
667
00:49:17,780 --> 00:49:18,780
too.
668
00:49:27,180 --> 00:49:31,040
I'm told I will see some fresh
approaches in one of the most unlikely
669
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,040
the city.
670
00:49:32,340 --> 00:49:36,560
Called Twin Towers by the locals for the
two towers reaching up from St. Mary's
671
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,900
Church, the neighborhood was
traditionally a tight -knit working
672
00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:40,900
neighborhood.
673
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,400
It's now the epicenter of Dayton's drug
epidemic.
674
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:50,360
Here I find two exceptional women
working to ensure the community's
675
00:49:51,370 --> 00:49:56,010
As part of her work at the East End
Community Center, Emily Sirico takes a
676
00:49:56,010 --> 00:49:59,710
message of hope out into the community,
telling anyone who will listen how to
677
00:49:59,710 --> 00:50:00,710
find treatment.
678
00:50:01,430 --> 00:50:04,930
Specifically in East Dayton, we have had
a lot of overdoses happen in the last
679
00:50:04,930 --> 00:50:05,788
few months.
680
00:50:05,790 --> 00:50:11,130
And so a team of us have been going out
to respond, to try to capitalize on an
681
00:50:11,130 --> 00:50:14,070
opportunity with that individual to get
them into treatment.
682
00:50:14,650 --> 00:50:17,890
I'm Emily. I work with East End
Community Services. Nice to meet you.
683
00:50:24,270 --> 00:50:28,130
Ellen Mays walks the halls of Ruskin
Elementary, where she runs an after
684
00:50:28,130 --> 00:50:30,150
program for Dayton's neediest children.
685
00:50:30,810 --> 00:50:34,810
Her goal is to help a new generation
escape the clutches of addiction.
686
00:50:35,310 --> 00:50:40,270
I want to welcome everybody to the third
annual Miracle Maker musical.
687
00:50:44,030 --> 00:50:48,330
How long have you guys known each other?
688
00:50:49,310 --> 00:50:50,950
Seventh grade. Seventh grade, yeah.
689
00:50:51,310 --> 00:50:52,310
That's really fantastic.
690
00:50:53,390 --> 00:50:59,190
I've been in this exact area with a
dealer, an addict, the police.
691
00:50:59,670 --> 00:51:02,950
How do you guys see this community?
692
00:51:03,330 --> 00:51:07,610
I see a group of people that want to
take their community back.
693
00:51:08,090 --> 00:51:13,110
I spoke to Joe Hale, who's a lawyer
who's been fighting this crisis for a
694
00:51:13,110 --> 00:51:18,570
time. And when I asked him what he felt
like could be done, he said he didn't
695
00:51:18,570 --> 00:51:20,190
feel like there was a solution. What do
you think?
696
00:51:20,590 --> 00:51:23,010
There is a solution to it, and the
solution is tackling poverty.
697
00:51:23,310 --> 00:51:24,990
Living in poverty is trauma.
698
00:51:25,350 --> 00:51:28,010
It's 100 % trauma, especially with
children.
699
00:51:28,430 --> 00:51:31,510
Easton first started and they went
around to the community asking, what can
700
00:51:31,510 --> 00:51:35,550
do for you? The family said, our
children have no dreams.
701
00:51:36,050 --> 00:51:39,790
Give our children some dreams or show
them how to actually dream.
702
00:51:40,010 --> 00:51:44,170
The goal is to give them the opportunity
to explore their talents, their
703
00:51:44,170 --> 00:51:48,650
passions, what's going to prevent those
particular children from ending up in a
704
00:51:48,650 --> 00:51:50,150
cycle of drug abuse.
705
00:51:50,390 --> 00:51:54,210
I think that that in and of itself can
just be huge.
706
00:51:54,570 --> 00:51:57,430
We have to take an integrated approach
to the problem.
707
00:51:58,100 --> 00:52:01,320
Nonprofits are coming to the table. The
city's coming to the table. We have
708
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:06,920
neighbors coming to the table. We have
the hospitals, the sheriff's coalition,
709
00:52:07,220 --> 00:52:08,920
all these different groups coming
together.
710
00:52:09,380 --> 00:52:10,660
We can tackle this.
711
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,820
Giving up is just not an option
whatsoever.
712
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,120
And we owe it to somehow figure out what
we can do to make a difference in the
713
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,120
lives of others.
714
00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:19,940
You don't walk away from a situation.
715
00:52:20,380 --> 00:52:22,720
You do the most you can. And you
bring...
716
00:52:23,240 --> 00:52:26,520
your whole power pack with you to do
that, you know?
717
00:52:26,780 --> 00:52:28,860
Because collectively we can do much
more.
718
00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:33,380
It sounds like the gentleman you spoke
to is feeling disheartened because he's
719
00:52:33,380 --> 00:52:38,320
lost a battle, a pretty big battle. But
we might have fallen once or failed
720
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,360
once, but you get back up and you try
again until we find the solution. What's
721
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:43,360
the alternative?
722
00:52:45,460 --> 00:52:50,280
For now, the determination of people
like Emily may be the only thing holding
723
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:51,480
the line against the epidemic.
724
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:56,660
On a cloudy spring afternoon, many of
them gather for the opening of a new
725
00:52:56,660 --> 00:53:01,160
treatment center in the Twin Towers,
looking for shared strength and their
726
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:02,160
shared purpose.
727
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:03,920
They'll need it.
728
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,540
The cost of failure, of doing anything
less.
729
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:09,360
is only too clear.
730
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:11,360
Just
731
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:22,760
like
732
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:27,580
we ask addicts to do the hard work of
recovery, we too must do the hard work
733
00:53:27,580 --> 00:53:28,580
fight this plague.
734
00:53:29,460 --> 00:53:33,240
When I look at what we've accomplished
through this sort of collaboration, I
735
00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:36,060
really do think everything is going to
be okay.
736
00:53:47,710 --> 00:53:51,770
It's been a better part of the year
getting to this grand opening. I thank
737
00:53:51,770 --> 00:53:56,350
all for being here today, and I hope
that this program and our efforts live
738
00:53:56,350 --> 00:53:57,410
to all of our expectations.
739
00:54:05,140 --> 00:54:07,520
I gave him four milligrams.
740
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:11,660
We've had 40 overdoses in the last two
weeks right in this community.
741
00:54:13,100 --> 00:54:15,600
We've lost a thousand bodies in the past
four years.
742
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,280
And we're still sitting around the table
trying to figure out how to solve this
743
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:20,280
problem.
744
00:54:21,660 --> 00:54:25,560
We got to quit kicking the can down the
road and blaming the feds and blaming
745
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:26,560
the state.
746
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:27,900
This isn't brain surgery.
747
00:54:28,260 --> 00:54:31,680
How much heroin does he use? How long
was he in that room?
748
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:45,600
We are better than this.
749
00:54:47,180 --> 00:54:49,660
I'd like to say help's on the way. Maybe
it will be.
750
00:54:49,900 --> 00:54:51,080
But don't lose faith.
751
00:54:51,860 --> 00:54:52,860
Stay strong.
752
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:18,000
Time on America Divided. People are
getting elected through unconstitutional
753
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:18,919
voting laws.
754
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,600
Why can we not out the people that are
in power? They drew the redistricting
755
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,080
so that Republicans couldn't lose any
kind of competitive election.
756
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,320
Aren't domestic workers protected?
757
00:56:29,540 --> 00:56:32,760
What do you say to a family that says, I
can't afford overtime?
758
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:37,380
It is true that there is a limit to what
families can afford and handle on their
759
00:56:37,380 --> 00:56:41,180
own. You're saying if they can't afford
me, they're not going to use me. It's
760
00:56:41,180 --> 00:56:42,180
about money.
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