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880: What Is Your Emergency?
Episode 880

880: What Is Your Emergency?

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

This American Life

February 1, 202659m 16s

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<p>911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America. </p><p>Visit <a href="https://thisamericanlife.supercast.com?utm_id=lifepartners&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=shownotes">thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners</a> to sign up for our premium subscription.</p><ul><li>Prologue: A collection of 911 calls where you can hear immigration enforcement moving through different cities and leaving chaos in their wake. (9 minutes)</li><li>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)</li><li>Act Two: Home Depots keep getting raided over and over again in Los Angeles. And day laborers are still showing up in store parking lots to find work every day.  So what’s that like? Months and months of that cat and mouse? Anayansi Diaz-Cortes went to find out. (11 minutes)</li><li>Act Three: Memo Torres tries to build an archive of every person taken by federal agents in Southern California. (11 minutes)</li></ul><p>Transcripts are available at <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/880/transcript">thisamericanlife.org</a></p><p><a href='https://www.thisamericanlife.org/page/privacy-policy'>This American Life privacy policy.</a><br /><a href='https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'>Learn more about sponsor message choices.</a></p>