Tag Archives: Immigration
“187: Rise of the Latino Vote.” Also, “Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground.”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 PROGRAM #9025 12:00 PM PT “187: Rise of the Latino Vote.” This is a conversation with the creators of a documentary about Proposition 187, the ill-famed law from 1994 that after seeking to deny public services to immigrants ended up spurring millions of Latinos to register to vote. Proposition 187 sparked a […]
“Once I Was You.”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 PROGRAM #9024 11:00 AM PT “Once I Was You.” This is a conversation with Emmy Award-winning journalist María Hinojosa about her new memoir, “Once I Was You, a Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America.” In her book, the anchor of NPR’s Latino USA shares stories about the current immigration […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 PROGRAM #9021 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta gives her perspective on the Trump administration’s refusal to obey a court order and continue the Census count until the end of October. She also gives her views on the passing of Supreme Court judge Ruth Ginsburg and the nomination […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 PROGRAM #9014 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Members of Congress intervened to halt the deportation of a detained immigrant woman who complained that doctors at a Georgia detention center performed forced hysterectomy, a traumatic experience that according to a whistleblower nurse, was also performed on more detained immigrant women. This case raises […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 PROGRAM # 9000 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Nearly 300,000 eligible applicants will not become US citizens in time to vote in the November election. On other news, the Trump administration is considering a proposal to “dramatically expand” the number of immigrants to provide biometrics, like eye scans, voice prints, DNA, and […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 PROGRAM # 8993 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. As wildfires rage across Northern California, undocumented workers from evacuated areas stay away from emergency shelters for fear of ICE and set up improvised camps, where they are at high risk of coronavirus infection and disease. On other news, the spouse of an immigrant […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 PROGRAM # 8972 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. One year ago, ICE agents targeted workers at several poultry plants in Mississippi, brutally arresting almost 700 immigrants and leaving behind broken families and traumatized communities. The raid coincided with the first week of school, and many children returned from classes to find empty […]
New Covid Epicenter. Stimulus Checks for Mixed-Status Families. Protections for Food Industry Workers.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10 PROGRAM # 8970 12:00 PM PT New Covid Epicenter. Coronavirus is hitting hard California’s Central Valley, which now leads the state with infection outbreaks. Gov. Newsom is sending the most ravaged counties a “strike team” similar to the one deployed in Imperial County, once the Covid epicenter in the state. A public […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 PROGRAM # 8965 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services is announcing major fee hikes for people applying for citizenship, asylum, permanent residency and other immigration benefits, imposing more burdens on low-income immigrants and increasing the wait to become a citizen. An advocate talks about this and about […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, JULY 28 PROGRAM # 8958 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. President Trump signed an order that would prevent the undocumented from being counted when US congressional districts are redrawn during redistricting. Under this new policy, the Census Bureau would have to revise the enumeration from the 2020 Census to remove immigrants from each state’s […]
