#49: From A to Xenophobia
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Immigration raids across the country, a new movement coming from the White House against legal immigration, and a repeated accusation of voter fraud — again, blaming undocumented immigrants.
Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a discussion on this and more with Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, and Thanu Yakupitiyage, Senior Communications Manager at the New York Immigration Coalition.
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| 0:00.0 | I have been on worker visas. It took a really, really long time to get where I'm at and you know just last week I was told by a lawyer. You probably shouldn't leave the country. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, this is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Marilla Inu Hosa. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Julio Riccaldo Varela. |
| 0:22.0 | And in our Harlem studio, okay this is amazing there are three women of color in our |
| 0:26.6 | Harlem studio whoo whoo joining us is Christina Greer she's associate professor of |
| 0:31.4 | political science at Fordham University. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome, Christina, first-timer. |
| 0:35.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:36.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:37.3 | Also here in Harlem is Tanu Yakupedia Gay. |
| 0:40.1 | She's a Senior Communications Manager at the New York Immigration Coalition. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome, Tanoo. |
| 0:45.3 | Thank you so much for having the honor to be here. |
| 0:47.3 | It's great to have you. |
| 0:48.4 | So today we're mostly going to focus on immigration, but to start off, let's talk |
| 0:52.4 | about Michael Flynn who resigned as |
| 0:54.5 | National Security Advisor Monday night. Yeah and then he resigned after it became |
| 0:59.1 | clear he was speaking with the Russians, insert dramatic music. |
| 1:03.7 | The Washington Post said that Flynn had been talking to the Russians |
| 1:06.8 | about lifting sanctions, Obama had placed on them. |
| 1:10.5 | Those were sanctions due to Russian interference in the election. |
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