Jessica Cheung
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Podcast Appearances
Yes, I can. I gave her a call on a recent Sunday. How was your Easter Sunday?
Yes, I can. I gave her a call on a recent Sunday. How was your Easter Sunday?
Isla says her dad's new detention center in Pine Prairie, Louisiana, is nothing like the one in Plymouth.
Isla says her dad's new detention center in Pine Prairie, Louisiana, is nothing like the one in Plymouth.
When Isla talks to her dad now, things feel different. She senses that the brave face her dad had put on is starting to crack.
When Isla talks to her dad now, things feel different. She senses that the brave face her dad had put on is starting to crack.
And this change in mood is starting to have an impact on Isla too.
And this change in mood is starting to have an impact on Isla too.
Oh, man. Would you ever consider moving to Brazil to be with your dad if it came to that?
Oh, man. Would you ever consider moving to Brazil to be with your dad if it came to that?
I wanted to ask, you know, what do you make of the fact that for a lot of Americans, your father's story, while sympathetic, might at the end of the day feel like, yeah, he ultimately was here, not legally. What would you say to those people who might agree with the administration's policies to remove people like your dad who don't have documentation here?
I wanted to ask, you know, what do you make of the fact that for a lot of Americans, your father's story, while sympathetic, might at the end of the day feel like, yeah, he ultimately was here, not legally. What would you say to those people who might agree with the administration's policies to remove people like your dad who don't have documentation here?
I'm really thinking about how your dad coached you through the interview that you did to obtain that internship and how... if your dad is deported back to Brazil, that that's going to be the permanent state of your relationship, that he's always going to have to coach you from afar, father you from afar. I wonder if you've thought about that. Has that sunk in with you?
I'm really thinking about how your dad coached you through the interview that you did to obtain that internship and how... if your dad is deported back to Brazil, that that's going to be the permanent state of your relationship, that he's always going to have to coach you from afar, father you from afar. I wonder if you've thought about that. Has that sunk in with you?
And can you bear that new version of that relationship?
And can you bear that new version of that relationship?