[image: image.png] *opening: Missing The America That Never Was * *July 2, 2017 <johnpavlovitz.com/2017/07/02/>John Pavlovitz <johnpavlovitz.com/author/johndpav/>* *I’ve shed many misplaced tears recently.*
*For a while I thought I was grieving over the loss of America; that I was missing something we used to be, a place we once were, a new national erosion of hope I thought I’d been witnessing. I imagined this great attrition was the source of my despair, mistakenly believing I was lamenting something that had at one time been here, but was now gone. It wasn’t until fairly recently that I fully realized that I’d been mourning the death of a ghost.I haven’t been missing America—I’ve been missing an America I wanted to be, an America I imagined to be—an America that never was….* Part one: HOW MASS DEPORTATIONS WOULD ‘DEVASTATE’ TEXASThe Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway. Francesca D’Annunzio <www.texasobserver.org/author/francesca-dannunzio/> is a Roy W. Howard investigative reporting fellow at the *Texas Observer*. D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian nationalism, US-Mexico border Part two: *Illegalized Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States* takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the twenty-first century United States. Rafael A. Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University. His work focuses on immigration, migration, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the American Southwest. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, John Pavlovitz, America, Texas Observer, mass deportation, Francesca D’Annunzio, Undocumented, Illegalized, Youth Movements, Professor Rafael Martinez, U of Arizona
*For a while I thought I was grieving over the loss of America; that I was missing something we used to be, a place we once were, a new national erosion of hope I thought I’d been witnessing. I imagined this great attrition was the source of my despair, mistakenly believing I was lamenting something that had at one time been here, but was now gone. It wasn’t until fairly recently that I fully realized that I’d been mourning the death of a ghost.I haven’t been missing America—I’ve been missing an America I wanted to be, an America I imagined to be—an America that never was….* Part one: HOW MASS DEPORTATIONS WOULD ‘DEVASTATE’ TEXASThe Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway. Francesca D’Annunzio <www.texasobserver.org/author/francesca-dannunzio/> is a Roy W. Howard investigative reporting fellow at the *Texas Observer*. D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian nationalism, US-Mexico border Part two: *Illegalized Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States* takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the twenty-first century United States. Rafael A. Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University. His work focuses on immigration, migration, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the American Southwest. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, John Pavlovitz, America, Texas Observer, mass deportation, Francesca D’Annunzio, Undocumented, Illegalized, Youth Movements, Professor Rafael Martinez, U of Arizona
