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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: This is a Manufactured Crisis: Immigrant Arrival Doesn't Have to be a Bad Thing
Description: Indy editor Amba Guerguerian spent the entirety of the hour with Desiree Joy Frias of South Bronx Mutual Aid about how the financial aspects of the migrant "crisis" in New York City have been manufactured and how it is a crisis not for the inhabitants of the city, but for the migrants themselves. We speak about updates in conditions and rules for the recently arrived migrants, the vast majority of whom are asylum seekers. South Bronx Mutual Aid is part of a large network of mutual aid groups that have been working to support large groups of migrants arriving since...