EPISODE #4:
Closing the Gate

This episode features the lives of Carmelita Torres and Aurora Mardiganian, who came to the United States in the early twentieth century. Carmelita Torres, a Mexican woman, was jailed as a result of her protest against dehumanizing and humiliating practices of inspection at the US-Mexico border. Aurora Mardiganian arrived in the United States as an Armenian refugee. Their stories show what it was like for immigrant women to come to the United States at a time when the federal government developed increasingly restrictive immigration policies. 

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