Duarte Geraldino: What we're missing in the debate about immigration
Duarte Geraldino is working on a multi-year project that chronicles the lives of citizens who lose people to deportation. Full bio
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something to me
and I was petrified.
I'd watched that movie "Godzilla,"
storming a major city,
coming for me was stuck in my mind.
at the tip of Lower Manhattan with my mom,
whether she was a monster or a hero.
the Google of the day --
is actually the Statue of Liberty
that really messed with my young head
colors over the years,
is intriguing about this
of the people who support me,
shaped by newcomers,
immigrants in the USA.
have at least one foreign-born parent.
because I study global migration patterns.
and for the last few years,
the lives of US citizens
were "ordered removed" --
for being deported.
a psychological and an emotional cost
exploding in the distance,
who are gravely injured,
when you know you could be next,
of these strong relationships;
in the debate about immigration policy.
on the circles around them,
who are left behind:
of the deported
who are separated by borders.
law enforcement officers,
to make sense of new realities
behind all these statistics
about immigration policy.
that I've collected.
were being ordered out of the country.
in the US military,
connected to the country he is.
that's banished his father.
that illustrates those critical bonds.
were concerned about their jobs,
of the restaurant where they worked
had picked him up.
to the local community
restaurant reviews --
what's called "judicial discretion"
the social circle.
noncitizens in the USA,
are at best complex estimates.
by deportation.
through the population.
of citizens in LA County
could be removed,
of their social circle were at risk.
should ever be deported;
to look at the bigger picture.
if the circle were broken?
of first-person accounts
where these circles break,
just an American issue.
around the world;
in countries where they were not born.
I've been one of them:
one of these foreigners --
guys in a new land --
that I keep on thinking about
that are so obviously brown,
that showcase her in the beginning
seeks to answer
that confounded me all those years ago:
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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