Podcast Corner: Land Of The Free meets undocumented Irish in the US

The three-part series meets some of the increasingly nervous Irish people whose situation has become even more precarious during the Trump era 

Sean Murray presents the Land of the Free podcast series. 

Episode two of Land of the Free, a three-part series from the Irish Examiner exploring the fears and struggles of undocumented Irish immigrants in the US, begins with a snippet of former US president Barack Obama’s address on College Green in Dublin 14 years ago, in 2011. “So you could say there’s always been a little green behind the red, white, and blue.” 

First of all, what a brilliant line, a reminder of what a great orator Obama was. Cut to the incumbent president Donald Trump, who we hear state: “All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”