Tag Archives: Immigration
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 PROGRAM # 8367 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. As the Trump administration replaces its policy of family separation with an order to incarcerate children with parents and protests continue around the country, House Republicans move to vote on a Republican-only immigration bill that gives Trump 25 billion for the border wall and […]
Immigration Bills and Raids.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 PROGRAM # 8363 12:00 PM PT Immigration Bills and Raids. Republicans are holding two immigration votes this week, including on a bill that claims to provide relief for DACA recipients and end family separations. On another story, immigrant kids separated from their parents and interned in government centers are suffering from toxic […]
Vanishing Frontiers.
TUESDAY, JUNE 19 PROGRAM # 8362 12:00 PM PT Vanishing Frontiers. At a time when a rhetoric pushing for border walls and policies and war on immigrants permeate the US airwaves, a social analyst releases a timely book examining the bridges that connect Mexico and the US. The book “Vanishing Frontiers” focuses on the great […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, JUNE 12 PROGRAM # 8357 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Republicans in the US House are now talking about offering a “special visa as a bridge to citizenship” for Dreamers, and warn about resorting to the discharge petition if conservative hardliners derail the talks about a solution to DACA. Also, in one of the […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 22 PROGRAM # 8342 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Although banks give them fewer loans and they receive less federal aid, Latino businesses are growing at a much faster rate than others. Contrary to the negative discourse propelled in Washington, Latinos, in particular young immigrants, have become the engine of the U.S. economy, […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 15 PROGRAM # 8329 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. A group of House Republicans is gathering signatures to force a debate on the House floor about a series of immigration bills by using the discharge petition. They still need a few Republican signatories. In Iowa, ICE arrested dozens of Central American workers in […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 8 PROGRAM # 8324 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Texas and six other states sue the Trump administration to end DACA. Also, a group of young Latino voter activists are putting the primary candidates feet to the fire on their positions on immigration and deportations. And in recent days, DHS announced the end […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 1 PROGRAM # 8319 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. On May Day, immigrant workers take to the streets in cities around the US and civil-rights advocates call for a day without Latinos and immigrants in Wisconsin to stop 287g, a program that allows local police to act as federal immigration agents. Also, an […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24 PROGRAM # 8314 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The Honduran refugee caravan known as Viacrucis Migrante, which was angrily censored by Trump, is about to reach Tijuana in search for political asylum in Mexico and the US. At the same time, tens of pilgrims march from Los Angeles to the Mexican border […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, APRIL 17 PROGRAM # 8309 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. As California became the last border state to agree to President Trump’s request to send troops from the National Guard to the border with Mexico, civil rights groups are urging all the governors to reject those plans, stating that “border communities are not war […]
