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“Welcoming the Stranger” – A Thanksgiving Special

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In our 2018 Thanksgiving Special, Ali travels from Indiana, to Idaho, to the southern border, with three guests with different experiences of “welcoming the stranger”.

Rafed Alsaad helped the U.S. forces in Iraq, and had to flee his homeland to be welcomed in South Bend, Indiana.

Priscilla Salant, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho,  tells Ali how immigrants have become vital to the state’s farming communities.

And Father Dan Groody, a University of Notre Dame Professor, finds the spirituality among the migrants at the southern border.

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