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 24th, 2024: Worker’s Rights in Mississippi
Almost five years after the largest ICE raid in US history devastated Mississippi’s immigrant community, the LMC speaks with Lorena Quiroz, the founder and director of the Immigrant Alliance for Justice & Equity, about the challenges immigrant whistleblowers still face in Mississippi’s meat-packing industry.
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