“We speak with Elora Mukherjee, a professor of law and director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. She has spent the past 12 years representing immigrant children and adults along the U.S.-Mexico border. “The raids will leave children without their parents. The raids will leave children without their caregivers,” Mukherjee says. “The…
“A.C. Thompson, a reporter with ProPublica, uncovered a secret Facebook group that included thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents. Members of the group shared racist, homophobic and sexist messages and memes. Thompson, who also reported on the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, says he sees “definite parallels between the…
“Thousands of Venezuelan immigrants have entered the U.S. in recent years, fleeing political and economic crises. Many have settled in and around the city of Houston, Texas, which is already home to a large Venezuelan-American community. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano met some of the new arrivals to learn what they went through to get here…
“Migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border are a money-making enterprise for smugglers and powerful cartels. It’s the subject of “Border Hustle”, an investigation and short documentary from The Texas Tribune and Time magazine. Reporter Jay Root joins Hari Sreenivasan for a look inside the dangerous and expensive journeys.” Watch more at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
“In this talk, recorded at TEDxEustis in January 2019, freedom seeker Lea Tran shares the harrowing journey her family took to reach the United States and the further hurdles she faced to find her voice. Lea is a graduate of Villanova University and began her career as an organic chemist at Wyeth and Merck &…
“When Iraqi immigrant & combat veteran Maytham Alshadood arrived in Denver, Colorado, his top priority was to get a college degree. But state law made that nearly impossible. In this inspiring talk, Maytham explains what happens when refugees & immigrants advocate for themselves.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference…
“The inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services paints the most detailed picture to date of the Trump administration’s actions to separate immigrant families at the southern border. The report found that the government was separating children long before it announced its policy; thousands more may have been separated than previously reported….
“Days after a federal judge in California temporarily halted Trump’s asylum ban, we revisit our conversation with the world-renowned professor, linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky about U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He joins us in Tucson, Arizona, where he teaches at the University of Arizona. Chomsky is also institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts…
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“As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite the pledge of allegiance. Jeffrey Brown also talks with Solis about his work consulting for…