I recently spoke with immigration activist, Sergio Cortes. He runs a media project called uSpark, focusing on California's Central Valley. Sergio talks about how the aggressive immigration policies of the last four years affected immigrants in California's Central Valley.
Feb 5, 2021
41 min
In this episode, Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Insitute, joins us to discuss his recently released book "Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions." We cover a range of topics including immigrants' trust in host country institutions, their impact on welfare programs and unions, and the growing partisan divide around the politics of immigration.
Feb 2, 2021
55 min
Jonathan Haggerty joins us to talk about the most effective ways for the U.S. to enforce its immigration laws. He explains how harsh immigration enforcement is less effective at catching dangerous criminals and contrasts the Trump Administration's approach with its predecessors. We then discuss the politics of immigration and the trajectory toward broader reforms in a Biden Administration.
Jan 27, 2021
1 hr 13 min
We recently spoke with history professor Johann Neem about his recent article Unbecoming American, which was featured in the Hedgehog Review. Professor Neem describes his family's experience immigrating from India and argues that recent tropes attempting to reduce American identity to nothing more than whiteness make it harder for immigrants make themselves at home in America.
Jan 11, 2021
33 min
In this episode, we chat with Daniel Di Martino, a politically conservative international student from Venezuela and Ph.D. candidate in economics at Columbia University. Daniel recounts his experience growing up in Venezuela and shares his perspective on the nation's ongoing economic and political turmoil. Daniel also assesses the U.S. immigration system from his perspective as an economist, conservative, and Venezuelan.
Nov 29, 2020
50 min
I recently spoke with immigration analyst Sam Peak about what changes to immigration may be coming under President Biden and changing attitudes among some on the Right toward immigration.
Nov 16, 2020
25 min
I recently spoke with Los Angeles Times reporter Andrea Castillo about an immigrant suicide at an ICE detention center, protesters getting pepper sprayed by guards at a detention center, and litigation by ICE against California over its attempt to ban private prisons.
Oct 19, 2020
40 min
I recently spoke with Shikha Dalmia, a senior policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, about the increasingly tyrannical anti-immigration practices of the Trump Administration, the harassment of students and doctors, ICE being used against US citizens, and nationalism abroad.
Sep 8, 2020
51 min
I spoke with historian Tyler Anbinder about his book, City of Dreams: The 400 Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about Irish, German, Italian, and Jewish immigrants; riots, Abraham Lincoln, gangs, anarchists, the abolition of slavery, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, Martin Scorsese, and the American Dream.
Aug 19, 2020
46 min
I recently spoke with author Daniel Okrent about his book, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America.
Jun 29, 2020
24 min
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