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It was discussed as providing a history of mail order marriages and a relatively fair, yet robust, defense of its history through time, including the agency it provided for some women.
And Dave Ruse helped us put this together. And this was a tough assignment for him, but he used a lot of information from a book by a legal professor originally from the University of South Carolina n...
— Episode: How Mail Order Marriages Work
Episode: How Mail Order Marriages Work
It was discussed as providing a history of mail order marriages and a relatively fair, yet robust, defense of its history through time, including the agency it provided for some women.
And Dave Ruse helped us put this together. And this was a tough assignment for him, but he used a lot of information from a book by a legal professor originally from the University of South Carolina named Marcia Zugg called Buying a Bride.
And engaging history of mail order matches where it seems like she gives a, you know, a fair but fairly full throated defense of its history through the ages as far as and we'll get into this.
But what's really bad is what undocumented immigrants have to suffer through in this country because they have no legal rights. They can't go to the police. They can't leave their spouse or their partner for fear of deportation.
No, she definitely almost I get the impression that she is defensive on behalf of the industry just because of how mistreated it's been in her opinion unfairly in large part.
But she does make some compelling arguments that throughout history it wasn't that way at all.
Episode: How Mail Order Marriages Work
It was discussed as an engaging history of mail order marriages, giving a defense of the history of the practice and how it has provided women with more agency and rights.
And Dave Ruse helped us put this together. And this was a tough assignment for him, but he used a lot of information from a book by a legal professor originally from the University of South Carolina named Marcia Zugg called Buying a Bride.
And engaging history of mail order matches where it seems like she gives a, you know, a fair but fairly full throated defense of its history through the ages as far as and we'll get into this.
But what's really bad is what undocumented immigrants have to suffer through in this country because they have no legal rights. They can't go to the police. They can't leave their spouse or their partner for fear of deportation.
No, she definitely almost I get the impression that she is defensive on behalf of the industry just because of how mistreated it's been in her opinion unfairly in large part.
But she does make some compelling arguments that throughout history it wasn't that way at all.
Episode: How Mail Order Marriages Work
It was discussed as providing a relatively fair and well-rounded history of mail-order marriages, defending the practice to a degree and exploring the women's agency and rights throughout history.
And Dave Ruse helped us put this together. And this was a tough assignment for him, but he used a lot of information from a book by a legal professor originally from the University of South Carolina named Marcia Zugg called Buying a Bride.
And engaging history of mail order matches where it seems like she gives a, you know, a fair but fairly full throated defense of its history through the ages as far as and we'll get into this.
But what's really bad is what undocumented immigrants have to suffer through in this country because they have no legal rights. They can't go to the police.
They can't leave their spouse or their partner for fear of deportation.
And you run into that criticism today. I mean just as much as you would have back in 1924 when they passed the Immigration Act against Japanese people.