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Stateside: Friday, Aug. 22, 2025

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First, a cherry farmer near Traverse City checks in about this year's crop, and about the impacts that shifting immigration and trade policies are having on local agriculture.

Then, why a Lansing resident chose to abandon the U.S. immigration process and return to Kenya. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, immigration correspondent at NPR, covered Samuel Kangethe's story.

Plus, writer Amanda Uhle’s new memoir, Destroy This House, recounts life in a household with wildly inventive, and often unbalanced, parents. 

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GUESTS ON TODAY'S SHOW:

  • Isaiah Wunsch,  CEO of Wunsch Farms, agribusiness consultant for Third Coast Fruit Co.
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, immigration correspondent, NPR
  • Amanda Uhle, journalist and nonfiction writer, author of Destroy This House
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