Over the next several years, the Financial Times is diving in deep on some of the US’s biggest economic and political issues, all through the lens of one city: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bethlehem is a politically divided area in one of the most critical swing states in the country, and it encapsulates lots of different stories that American politicians are telling about the US and who it's for.

We’ll be featuring some of those stories on the Swamp Notes podcast in a special series called The Bethlehem Project. In this first episode, we explore how an immigration raid at a construction site sent a chill through the community and exposed fault lines in the debate around who belongs in the US.

Mentioned in this podcast:

‘Everyone’s at risk’: Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown reaches Bethlehem

Why the Democrats are losing post-industrial America

Inside Trump’s America

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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