(22 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
1. Streets of “Czech Village”
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“We’re built up as Cedar Rapids by Czech and Slovak immigrants. It is such a huge part of the makeup of this community.”
3. Mass letting out at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
4. Bob Kazimour singing a Christmas holiday song in Czech
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“So we have a very long history of immigration to Cedar Rapids.”
6. St. Jude Catholic Church’s Sweet Corn Festival
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
7. Congregants singing at Spanish Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
8. Mugisha Gloire teaching a driver’s ed class through his nonprofit at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“My name is Anne Dugger and I am the executive director at the Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.”
10. Dugger leaving The Catherine McAuley Center
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“For the most part, 99% of our students are immigrants and refugees, so we teach English as another language and I always say another because it’s four or five languages most people know. We teach citizenship, digital literacy, conversation classes.”
12. Various of students in a U.S. citizenship class held at The Catherine McAuley Center
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“Seven years ago, we started resettling people from, directly from refugee camps in other countries. Specifically, we resettled a lot of people from Democratic Republic of Congo. And then when the Afghans came, we resettled 250 Afghans within about three months, which was unprecedented.”
14. Various of Mugisha Gloire teaching a driver’s ed class through his nonprofit at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“It is a matter of meshing or integrating. How do we, how do we get around in the community, how do we find our friends, how to we find, find bridges across cultural divides.”
16. Various of students learning English through Mugisha Gloire’s nonprofit
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“There’s definitely been the concern from our students and from the people that we’ve resettled, ‘what does my future look like? How does this, how do I live in such uncertainty?’”
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
18. The Rev. Daniel Niyonzima, a refugee from Burundi, leading Sunday service at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
19. Various of congregants singing during service
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Dugger, Executive Director, The Catherine McAuley Center:
“Citywide, though, I don’t, I don’t meet a lot of people who are opposed to immigrants coming to the United States and coming to our city. That isn’t, I don’t think it’s part of our makeup here in Cedar Rapids.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 10 August 2025
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 9 August 2025
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