Duarte Geraldino: What we're missing in the debate about immigration
דוארטה ג'רלדינו: מה שחסר לנו בדיונים בנושא ההגירה
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something to me
על סבתא ואיך הן גדלו,
and I was petrified.
את הסרט "גודזילה",
I'd watched that movie "Godzilla,"
שמחריבה עיר גדולה,
storming a major city,
שמתנפלת עלי נשארה לי בראש.
coming for me was stuck in my mind.
עם אימי,
at the tip of Lower Manhattan with my mom,
או גיבורה.
whether she was a monster or a hero.
the Google of the day --
is actually the Statue of Liberty
היא פסל החירות
למהגרים שמגיעים.
that really messed with my young head
במוח הצעיר שלי,
colors over the years,
is intriguing about this
כי כאמריקני דור-ראשון,
של האנשים שתומכים בי,
of the people who support me,
בידי עולים חדשים,
shaped by newcomers,
immigrants in the USA.
יש לפחות הורה אחד שנולד בחו"ל.
have at least one foreign-born parent.
because I study global migration patterns.
כי אני חוקר דפוסי הגירה גלובליים.
תיעדתי את חיי האזרחים האמריקניים
and for the last few years,
the lives of US citizens
קיבלו "צו סילוק" --
were "ordered removed" --
for being deported.
לגירושים האלה --
a psychological and an emotional cost
"כי אני גאה להגן על ארצי."
"באמת, כשאת בבסיס,
exploding in the distance,
פצועים קשה,
who are gravely injured,
שאת אולי הבאה בתור,
when you know you could be next,
היא בעצם אמרה לי,
של מערכות-יחסים הדוקות;
of these strong relationships;
in the debate about immigration policy.
בדיון סביב מדיניות ההגירה.
on the circles around them,
who are left behind:
על ילדיהם של המגורשים;
of the deported
who are separated by borders.
אנשי אכיפת חוק,
law enforcement officers,
בנסיבות החדשות
to make sense of new realities
behind all these statistics
מאחורי כל הנתונים האלה
בדיונים סביב מדיניות ההגירה.
about immigration policy.
that I've collected.
צו סילוק מהארץ.
were being ordered out of the country.
in the US military,
connected to the country he is.
שגירשה את אביו.
that's banished his father.
שממחישה את הקשרים הקריטיים האלה.
that illustrates those critical bonds.
נעשתה מודאגת בקשר למקומות העבודה,
were concerned about their jobs,
של המסעדה בה עבדו
of the restaurant where they worked
had picked him up.
שהוא חשוב מדי לקהילה המקומית
to the local community
ביקורות על המסעדה --
restaurant reviews --
"שיקול דעת שיפוטי"
what's called "judicial discretion"
נלקח בחשבון.
the social circle.
noncitizens in the USA,
הם לכל היותר הערכות מורכבות.
are at best complex estimates.
by deportation.
לכל שכבות האוכלוסיה.
through the population.
במחוז לוס-אנג'לס ב-2017 מצא
of citizens in LA County
עלולים להיות מגורשים,
could be removed,
נמצאים בסיכון כזה.
of their social circle were at risk.
should ever be deported;
את התמונה השלמה.
to look at the bigger picture.
אם החוג הזה יתפורר?
if the circle were broken?
של סיפורי גוף ראשון
of first-person accounts
איפה בדיוק החוגים האלה נפגעים,
where these circles break,
just an American issue.
around the world;
בכל העולם;
בארצות שלא בהן נולדו.
in countries where they were not born.
הייתי אחד מהם:
I've been one of them:
לאחד הזרים האלה --
one of these foreigners --
בארץ חדשה --
guys in a new land --
that I keep on thinking about
כשאני רואה אותה
שהם כה בבירור חומים,
that are so obviously brown,
that showcase her in the beginning
כפי שהיתה בהתחלה:
seeks to answer
לפני כל אותן שנים:
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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