The Story

Sandro Linden is a street merchant in Port-au-Prince. He competes with dozens of other vendors to sell goods and earn money for his family of five. He carries his goods in a backpack - teeshirts, deodorant, you name it. He talks with Dick about how he and his family has been faring since the quake. Also in the show: A check-in with Abdi, in Somalia. And an 11-year old discovers a boneyard.

Larry Vance lives one mile from the Arizona/Mexico border and has witnessed hundreds, maybe thousands, of migrants crossing his property over the last thirty years. He says the effects are frightening - cut fences, trash everywhere, poisoned dogs, shoot outs, burglaries.

Reports of sexual assault in the Army have increased since anonymous reporting was implemented. According to the Department of Defense, 21% of women soldiers say they have been sexually assaulted.Army Specialist Kymberlea L. Durant says that statistic is too low. Also in this epside, we received dozens of emails about Dick's conversation with Rmega Tafari, a woman squatting in an abandoned foreclosed home with her family. When Dick last spoke to Rmega, the bank that owned the home had asked her to leave. Dick checks in with Rmega to find out what's happened since.

One of the biggest immigration raids in U.S. history occurred on May 12, 2008. Teams of immigration agents swarmed into a meat packing plant in the small Iowa town of Postville, and arrested close to 400 people. We hear from 3 voices today:

Rosa Zamora was working at the Agriprocessors plant and was detained, while her husband was deported. David Vasquez is a pastor who has been integral in trying to help the community of Postville recover after raid. Lawyer Sonia Parras helped a series of workers after the Postville raid.  Since that time she has set an unprecedented record for the number of U-Visa’s she has been able to obtain.