During the current election season, prominent campaigns target immigrants warning that they are a drain on the economy: they have no skills to offer, they take jobs from US workers and drive wages down.

TUESDAY, MAY 28
PROGRAM #10387 12:00 PM PT

Immigration Edition.

During the current election season, prominent campaigns target immigrants warning that they are a drain on the economy: they have no skills to offer, they take jobs from US workers and drive wages down. Do immigrants help or depress the economy? How does immigration impact the economy? A distinguished economist answers the questions. In other news, investigative reporters looked into the deadly fire inside a Mexican immigrant detention center where 40 migrants died and found that the tragedy was connected to the changing policies imposed by the US at the border in recent years. Finally, the DOJ is suing Oklahoma seeking to stop a controversial new immigration law in the state.

Guests: Dr. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, Associate Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California Los Angeles-UCLA; Executive Director, North American Integration and Development Center-NAID Center; and Executive Director-CEO, SF Global, Los Angeles, CA; others TBA.

Photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy via Flickr

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