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Boston Calling: Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis

22/08/2015 GMT

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, Identity Crisis

A Mexican immigrant who works in a Trump hotel calls out ‘The Donald’.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has laid out a controversial immigration plan that includes a call to end the principle that babies born in the US automatically qualify as citizens. We examine the origins and the effects of this principle, and we speak with Ricardo Aca— a Mexican immigrant who works at a Trump hotel. 

Then, two Pakistani-American brothers from Minnesota explain why they created ‘Noor Kids’, a series of children's books intended for Muslim youth. The reporter Akiko Fujita retraces her grandfather’s uniquely Japanese-American past. And we mark the 100th anniversary of the US occupation of Haiti. Plus: Lipa Schmeltzer, the ‘Hasidic Lady Gaga’.


(Photo: Mexican football fans hold signs alluding to a June comment made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He said: ‘When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best... They’re sending people that have lots of problems…They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people’. Credit: Ricardo Aca)

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