Inhospitable Inhospitable

I remember sitting in the conference room when Gilles called for the first time from York Detention Center in SC and the sadness and anger and fear that was in his voice and the distress in his voice when he said “Pastor! Pastor! they trapped me!”

There are no clear and simple pathways to citizenship in the United States, but avenues to temporary statuses at least used to be more available. How, then, did Gilles first arrive in the United States? The story begins across the world in the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville.

The massive immigration detention system in the United States is one-of-a-kind, and it's repeatedly come under scrutiny for it's treatment of immigrants and its financial practices.

Eventually, the seemingly inevitable outcome came and Gilles was taken from Atlanta and deported. This episode chronicles his deportation and what deportation means for the country and the world.

In this episode, we talk with immigration activists and experts about misconceptions about immigration and conduct a roundtable of the pastors at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church about the role of communities (faith-based and otherwise) in the current immigration climate.

Inhospitable tells the revealing and heartbreaking story of a North Carolina man’s detention by ICE, and his community’s fight to keep him from being deported.