Season 1
Season 1, Episode 001
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THE SUPREME COURT DID NOT HOLD THAT THE TRAVEL BAN IS LAWFUL.
"Contrary to popular belief, the Supreme Court did not hold that the Travel Ban is lawful." Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Professor Marty Lederman on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the travel ban.
Season 1, Episode 002
SEPARATED CHILDREN, ZERO TOLERANCE, + THE BORDER
Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Professor Denise Gilman, Director of the Immigration Clinic at the UT Austin School of Law.
Season 1, Episode 003
CÉSAR’S CHOICE: THE CONDITIONS AND DECISIONS FACING REUNITED IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Professor Lauren Gilbert on the detention of re-united immigrant families and the difficult choices they face: should they return to their home countries together, should the parent return and child stay in the U.S., or should the family remain in ICE detention to pursue claims to political asylum?
Season 1, Episode 004
RESIGNATION WITH HONOR
Alex Aleinikoff speaks with David Martin on why he resigned from the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council, what he objects to in Trump Administration immigration policies and what balanced and responsible immigration looks like.
Season 1, Episode 005
ZOMBIE IDEAS ON US IMMIGRATION POLICY
Immigrants commit more crimes? Don't learn English? Hurt the U.S. economy? These are "zombie ideas"-- false claims that refuse to die. Professor Rubén Rumbaut of UC Irvine sets the record straight
Season 1, Episode 006
INCITING FEAR: TRUMP & THE CARAVAN
Join us for a conversation with Doris Meissner, former US Commissioner of Immigration and currently a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Insitute on the Migrant Caravan and current policy options available.
Season 1, Episode 007
TT PRE ELECTION EDITION!
Professor Roberto Suro of USC joins Alex in a discussion of what you need to know before the midterms next week. Listen up for more about immigration & this critical historic moment.
Season 1, Episode 08
TRUMP ADMIN.’S ASSAULT ON GENDER ASYLUM
Two actions of the Trump Administration have sought to make it practically impossible for women who are victims of intimate partner violence to be granted asylum. Learn the latest with Kate Jastram of UC Hastings Law.
Season 1, Episode 00
BORDER TRAGEDIES: AN AUDIO ESSAY
In this sweeping audio essay, Alex Aleinikoff takes a critical look at Trump's border actions and argues for policies true to fact and values.
Season 1, Episode 010
“FIRST THING WE DO, WE KILL ALL THE LAWYERS”
Lawyers- outraged by the Administration's harsh policies- have brought scores of cases challenging the President's actions. Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University talks how the ACLU & others have stopped Trump in the courts.
Season 1, Episode 011
(MIS)STATE(MENT) OF THE UNION
Trump's State of the Union address repeated his false claims that link crime with immigration. Tanvi Misra helps set the record straight, and Alex Aleinikoff discusses Trump's nativist assault on the moral fabric of the US.
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Season 1, Episode 012
Is the US a 'safe country' for asylum-seekers?
Under an agreement signed in 2002, Canada can return asylum-seekers to the US if they have traveled through the US or lived there prior to arriving in Canada. Recent policies north and south of the US-Canadian border pose new challenges to the agreement, as Sean Rehaag, Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, explains.
Season 1, Episode 13
"Public charge" Explained
The Trump Administration has proposed a new rule that will affect every person seeking to enter the United States or receive a green card--it will greatly expand the number of people who can be excluded from the U.S. because they are "likely to become a public charge." What does "public charge" mean and how would the new rule work? And why is the Trump Administration proposing it? Mark Greenberg, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, joins Alex Aleinikoff for an in-depth discussion of the proposed rule and its potential consequences.
Season 1, Episode 014
‘DISMANTLE A WALL WITH WORDS’
Alex is joined by Maya Wiley for a live conversation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on walls — real and virtual — that divide us. How do walls mark out who belongs, whose views count, and whose history gets told?
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Season 1, Episode 15
Accommodation at the Border
Carlos Bravo Regidor, a professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City, and Alexandra Delano, Chair of Global Studies at The New School, provide the answers on who is Mexican President AMLO, and his relationship with Donald Trump.
Season 1, Episode 16
If I Can Make It There
How can refugees be helped to enter the US job market? And what's food got to do with it? We talk with Kerry Brodie about Emma's Torch, a Brooklyn restaurant that offers culinary training to refugees, asylum-seekers and victims of trafficking, and a graduate Thu Pham.
Season 1, Episode 17
Immigration Politics and the 2020 Election
The Democratic and Republican parties used to work together on passing immigration legislation. No more. Muzaffar Chishti, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and expert extraordinaire, helps us understand the politics of immigration and what it means for both parties in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Season 1, Episode 18
Lady Liberty: Her History & Climber
How did the Statue of Liberty become a symbol for immigration in the United States? What does it stand for today? In this episode we talk with Professor Mae Ngai about the Statue’s history, and how its meaning in the American public mind has changed over time. We also speak with activist Patricia Okoumou, who climbed the pedestal of the Statue one year ago this week, in protest of the Trump Administration's child separation policy. She explains the reasons for her act of civil disobedience.
Season 1, Episode 19
The Last 20 Miles
Are we made to migrate? What makes us move and how do we do it? We answer these questions and more with an anatomist, an endurance athlete, and a forensic anthropologist, as we take a closer look at the US/Mexico border from a new perspective--one of basic human need and physical adaptation.