Duarte Geraldino: What we're missing in the debate about immigration
دوارتي جيرالدينو: ما نفتقده في نقاشنا حول قضية الهجرة
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something to me
وكنت مذعورًا.
and I was petrified.
I'd watched that movie "Godzilla,"
شاهدت فيلم "غودزيلا"،
وهي تقتحمُ مدينة كبيرة،
storming a major city,
عالقة في ذهني.
coming for me was stuck in my mind.
at the tip of Lower Manhattan with my mom,
عند طرف أقصى جنوب مانهاتن،
whether she was a monster or a hero.
the Google of the day --
is actually the Statue of Liberty
هي في الحقيقة تمثال الحرية
that really messed with my young head
لخبط في الواقع عقلي الصغير
في الواقع.
colors over the years,
is intriguing about this
of the people who support me,
من الناس الذين يدعمونني،
shaped by newcomers,
بالقادمين الجدد بطرق شتى،
immigrants in the USA.
have at least one foreign-born parent.
أحد الوالدين ممن ولد في الخارج.
because I study global migration patterns.
لأنني أدرس أنماط الهجرة العالمية.
and for the last few years,
the lives of US citizens
were "ordered removed" --
بترحيل أكثر من ثلاثة ملايين شخص
for being deported.
a psychological and an emotional cost
وعاطفي
exploding in the distance,
who are gravely injured,
when you know you could be next,
تعلمُ أنه ربما تكون التالي،
of these strong relationships;
هو مجموع هذه العلاقات القوية:
in the debate about immigration policy.
في نقاشنا حول سياسة الهجرة.
on the circles around them,
who are left behind:
of the deported
who are separated by borders.
law enforcement officers,
وموظفي تطبيق القانون،
to make sense of new realities
من أجل إدراك واقعهم الجديد
behind all these statistics
وراء كل تلك الإحصائيات
about immigration policy.
حول سياسة الهجرة.
that I've collected.
التي جمعتها.
were being ordered out of the country.
يجري الأمرُ بمغادرتهما البلاد.
in the US military,
في الجيش الاميركي،
connected to the country he is.
that's banished his father.
that illustrates those critical bonds.
were concerned about their jobs,
قلقين بشأن وظائفهم،
of the restaurant where they worked
had picked him up.
to the local community
restaurant reviews --
حتى أنهم قدّموا تقييمات المطعم،
what's called "judicial discretion"
مارس القاضي ما يسمى "القضاء التقديري"
الرابط الاجتماعي.
the social circle.
noncitizens in the USA,
في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية،
are at best complex estimates.
by deportation.
through the population.
شيئًا فشيئًا بين السكان.
قامت به جامعة كاليفورنيا عام 2017
of citizens in LA County
could be removed,
of their social circle were at risk.
مهددون بالخطر.
should ever be deported;
to look at the bigger picture.
في الصورة الأكبر
if the circle were broken?
of first-person accounts
لإفادات بصيغة المتكلم الأول
where these circles break,
اقتحام هذه الدوائر بالتحديد،
just an American issue.
around the world;
in countries where they were not born.
في بلاد لم يولدوا فيها.
I've been one of them:
one of these foreigners --
guys in a new land --
في أرض جديدة،
that I keep on thinking about
that are so obviously brown,
التي هي سمراء اللون بشكل واضح،
that showcase her in the beginning
seeks to answer
that confounded me all those years ago:
الذي حيرني طول السنوات الماضية:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Duarte Geraldino - JournalistDuarte Geraldino is working on a multi-year project that chronicles the lives of citizens who lose people to deportation.
Why you should listen
Duarte Geraldino is an American journalist who travels the country documenting how culture is being changed and challenged by shifting demographics, business and technology. He leads a team of skilled journalists who produce multimedia reports and short films that have been distributed around the world through national and global news networks. He is currently working on a multi-year project that chronicles the lives of citizens who lose people to deportation called Hear Our Stories Now.
He is currently a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour. At the NewsHour, he reports and writes long-form television stories about business trends like the housing crisis that is gripping many American cities and developments in labor laws that some see as choking middle and low-income workers.
In 2017, one of Geraldino's short documentaries, Ordered Out, was screened in New York's Times Square as part of the Dominican Film Festival New York. It explores the impact of American identity and immigration and tells the story of a family being torn apart by US laws. In the same year, he was selected as a TED Resident. During his residency at TED's global headquarters, he started developing a digital journalism project to document the lives of US citizens who have lost people to deportation.
Previously, Geraldino worked as a National Correspondent for Al Jazeera America and as a local news reporter in New York, Ohio, Texas and Maryland.
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