817: The Cavalry Is Not Coming

<p>When you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next? </p><ul><li>Prologue: Saddam Sayyaleh’s job right now is trying to get trucks filled with aid into Gaza and he knows it’s nowhere close to what’s actually needed. (10 minutes)</li><li>Act One: Tim Reeves runs a hospital in rural Pennsylvania, and he’s trying to do something that is so hard to do and that he knows is completely up to him. (11 minutes)</li><li>Act Two: One of our producers, Nadia Reiman, talked to officials who work in the asylum and refugee branches at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. They gave her a window into the immigration system under President Biden that you don’t usually get. (32 minutes)</li></ul><p>Transcripts are available at <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/817/transcript">thisamericanlife.org</a></p>