This week Matthew and I reflect on 9/11, Paul Krugman's comments that we reacted like it was NBD, the agency that was born out of the tragedy (DHS) and the mistakes we made in the aftermath.
This week we're joined by Austin Kocher (@ackocher), researcher at TRAC, to discuss the details and implications of their ongoing research on how COVID-19 is affecting the immigration court system. You can follow the fine work of TRAC over at the Twitt...
This week we're joined by Professor Laura Briggs to talk about her book, Taking Children. Professor Briggs is an expert on U.S. and international child welfare policy and on transnational and transracial adoption, and an excellent podcast guest. Taking...
This week we're joined by Jessica Goudeau, author of After the Last Border, to talk about her book and the slow destruction of the refugee resettlement program. Go buy her book at your local bookstore! Jessica Goudeau has written for The New York Times...
This week we're joined by Michael Kagan, Professor of Law at the University of Las Vegas Nevada. We talk to him about his book, The Battle to Stay in America. Michael Kagan directs the Immigration Clinic and teaches administrative law, professional re...
This week it's a crossover with Jeff from Georgia and the Dissident Peasant podcast. Check out his patreon here. Follow Jeff on Twitter, @jeffhisdudeness. Jeff Sessions embodies many of the pressing issues of our time: crumbling confederate relics, vo...
This week we discuss the career and downfall of Jeff Sessions with Jeff from Georgia of the Dissident Peasant podcast. Listen to and support his podcast here. Ol' Sessions lost his recent senate primary. His major flaw according to the President and M...
This week we're joined by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) from the American Immigration Council to talk about how we're ignoring the law when it comes to appointing heads of DHS, Customs and Border Protection (or is it patrol?), what's going ...
This week we're joined by Robin Thurston from Democracy Forward to talk about sneaky changes made by the administration at the Department of Labor designed to make it harder for immigrants to get U-Visas. Robin Thurston is a Democracy Forward senior c...
This week we're joined by Matt Cameron (@matt_cam) and Andrew Free (@immcivilrights) to talk about furloughs at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and the critical role of FOIA. The #DetentionKills network published #FOIA records f...