Um Patti Rodriguez our new podcast, Out of the Shadows, Children of eighty six. It's about people like our parents who left their homes to follow the promise of America and a dream historically kept just out of reach for black and brown immigrants. Oh. We cross the river at night, uh, and the water covers meat up to my shoulders. Were scared. Oh yeah, because I was so young. Do you remember what year that was? Oh, the year was nineteen eighty six.
That's my mom talking about the year that changed everything. When millions of immigrants living in the US illegally and their children stepped out of the shadows. They were afraid of Lama, they were afraid of grades. People would run away and they would hide. But in one stroke of a pen changed the nation, allowing millions of immigrants and their children and their children's children to plan roots in this country. That's when President Ronald Reagan signed Erica, an
immigration reform bill that would be considered radical today. Like if that never happened, like I would not be doing what I do. I'm grateful for the amnesty, and also I'm aware that that didn't fix everything. I have the same rights as the president of the same right, we'll dive deep into the complicated legacy of a president who became an unexpected savior to some three million undocumented immigrants. My mom loved Ronald Reagan. She prays for him all
the time. I mean, I think Ronald Reagan was the devil. We weren't supposed to come out of the shadows, but we did and changed America for good. Listen to Out of the Shadows Children of eighty six on my Heart Radio, app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.