President Joe Biden’s new executive orders on asylum was met with disapproval from both Democrats and Republicans. So the LMC spends the hour with Ernesto Castaneda, the director for the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies & the Immigration Lab at American University in Washington DC, to break down the political miscalculations of Biden’s migrant policy.
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June 14th, 2024: Zavala Zavala
Migrant children are still missing. Families are still separated. On this episode, the LMC speaks with librettist Anna Deeny Morales and attorney Sergio Garcia to discuss the opera “Zavala Zavala” and why we need to continue talking about migrant family separation.
Anna Deeny Morales is also a Center for Latin American Studies fellow and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Sergio Garcia is an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Texas.
May 3rd, 2024: Greg Abbott vs Peaceful Protestors
As protests on college campuses by students in solidarity with Gaza continue nationwide, the LMC spends the hour with freelance writer Arturo Dominguez about the hypocrisy of Texas governor Greg Abbott’s authoritarian response to demonstrators in the Lone Star state.