Hey, welcome to In The Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria Inu Hosa.

And I'm Julio Ricalo Barela and welcome back to Harlem, Maria.

It's so good to be home. I hate all the airlines. I hate all the airports. I hate airport food. I hate all of it.

You've been really, really busy traveling like crazy. And we actually checked in with you on Friday to see where you were.

Where's Maria?

Where's Maria?

Hey have you guys seen Maria?

Maria?

Yes, Julio.

You go to Nebraska like ten times a year it feels like. You just gave away my location, my undisclosed location. I am in Omaha, Nebraska. But why do you go there? I've always had a soft spot for places that get a bum rap and I feel like, you know, whether it was the South Bronx that was, you know, kind of trashed and forgotten, which it is so vibrant, or whether it's a place like Omaha which is like kind of in a flyover state of Nebraska

The amount of diversity that I experience in Omaha they're building here in Omaha the only place in the world where they're going to have on the same space a Christian church

mosque and a Jewish temple. It's actually very progressive. It's a refugee relocation spot. It's very, you know, hip in that sense a little flat, big sky.

All right, well, thanks for checking it, Maria. Safe travels.

I'll see those by.

Monday, March 5th, Mark, Trump's arbitrary deadline for Congress to decide on DACA.

And you, Marianne Hosa, made a prediction about how you thought it would go down.

I don't think anything is going to happen.

You were right.

I hate that.

Right and then this whole DACA thing, when it was it was the news of the day and now it's literally falling out of mainstream headlines.

Congress has failed to take action. But you know Monday activist Marchist March protested. They staged sit-ins outside of

Speaker Paul Ryan's office. Some were even arrested. There were reports to at least

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