#1244 A Nation of (Criminalized) Immigrants
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Air Date: 1/25/2019
Today we take a look at the past and present of our immigration system to understand the paradigms within which the entire debate takes place
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SHOW NOTES
“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump
Ch. 2: Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana Part 1 - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-8-19
To understand the origins of the immigration politics in general and the criminalization of Mexican immigrants in particular, we must explode these categories, identify their origins, and analyze the history that preceded them.
Historian Greg Grandin lays out the nativist roots of the U.S. Border Patrol, its connection to CIA dirty wars in Latin America, and nearly 100-years of brutality and impunity.
Jacqueline Bhabha joins Peter B. Collins for this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast. Bhabha is a professor of health and human rights at the School of Public Health, research director at the FXB Center, and lectures at Harvard Law and the Kennedy School. She is an
Ch. 5: Jeh Johnson speaks out on separating immigrant families - Cape Up - Air Date 6-25-18
As the Trump Administration grapples with a crisis of its own making Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security tells us about what happened when he faced separating children from their parents.
As President Trump claims that he can end birthright citizenship in the United States, we speak with professor Martha Jones about the history of the 14th Amendment
Ch. 7: Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana Part 2 - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-8-19
To understand the origins of the immigration politics in general and the criminalization of Mexican immigrants in particular, we must explode these categories, identify their origins, and analyze the history that preceded them.
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Ch. 8: PostScript on America's policy on socialism and communism - Erin from Philadelphia
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Ch. 9: Final comments proposing a compromise between progressives and conservatives
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| 0:55.5 | learn about the past and present of our immigration system to understand the paradigms within which |
| 1:01.0 | the entire debate takes place. Clipsydei come from citations needed, the dig, intercepted, |
| 1:07.8 | who what why, cape up, and democracy now. |
| 1:16.1 | The idea that we're a nation of immigrants is a trope we hear time and time again. |
| 1:20.2 | As a nation of immigrants celebrates July 4th, a battle on the border explodes along cultural |
| 1:26.2 | lines. We are a nation of immigrants. The reminder that America is a nation of immigrants. |
| 1:31.3 | We are a nation of immigrants, as you know. We're also a nation of immigrants, and we must |
| 1:37.4 | uphold that tradition, which has strengthened our country in so many ways. As a nation of immigrants. |
| 1:43.2 | My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. |
| 1:47.0 | And America is a nation of immigrants. It has always been a nation of immigrants. |
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