#20: The Clash of Immigration and Affirmative Action
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
With a nod to punk rockers The Clash, the question of 'who should stay and who should go' was at the heart of two decisions at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court session. Who should stay in the America and who should go to college were behind rulings on immigration and affirmative action. Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion with Debo Adegbile, lawyer and former Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, professor at the University of Texas Center for Mexican American and Latino Studies, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor for the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Think about the way in which our politics work. |
| 0:04.0 | Bravery only comes when politicians are forced to do the brave thing. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, |
| 0:12.0 | Visit the Podcast about Politics and the Race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:16.0 | We're the show that examines this week's political coverage |
| 0:19.0 | through a diverse lens and with a lot of different perspectives. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm your host, Maria I'm your host, Marianoino Rosa, and it's great to be with you this week. |
| 0:25.2 | Joining us in our Harlem studio is Deboo Adagbulae. |
| 0:28.0 | He's a lawyer and former director council of the N-W-A-C-P Legal Defense and Educational Fund. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the show, Davo. |
| 0:35.0 | It's great to be with you. |
| 0:35.8 | And joining us from Austin, Texas is Victoria de Francesco Soto. |
| 0:40.0 | She's a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and works as part of the Center for |
| 0:45.0 | Mexican American Studies, where another show that we do, Latino USA, was born. |
| 0:49.2 | Hey Victoria, welcome. |
| 0:50.5 | Howdy Maria. |
| 0:51.6 | And joining us from Boston is our very own Julio Ricardo Barella. |
| 0:54.8 | He's the political editor for the Futuro media group. Hey Julio. |
| 0:57.5 | Hey Maria. |
| 0:58.5 | All right it's great to have all of you on this week's episode of In The Thick. |
| 1:01.6 | So the Supreme Court has ended its session about a week |
| 1:05.1 | ago. They made two among many important decisions, but two important decisions that |
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