INTERVIEW: Alejandra Oliva and Simon Hankinson talk with Isaac about immigration and border policies.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Our podcast editor, Jon, is traveling today. So, we wanted to use this time to release an interview we’ve had for a little bit. This is a discussion between two people on different sides of the immigration issue.
Alejandra Oliva is an essayist, translator, and immigrant justice advocate. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, nominated for a Pushcart prize, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her book, Rivermouth, is forthcoming from Astra House in 2023, and received a Whiting Nonfiction Grant. She was the Yale Whitney Humanities Center Franke Visiting Fellow in Spring 2022.
Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation. From 1999–2023, he was a Foreign Service Officer serving in India, Fiji, Ghana, Slovakia, Togo, Washington, D.C., Marseille, and Nairobi. Prior to entering the State Department, Hankinson worked as a lawyer in London, and then taught history, English, and drama at a private school in Miami.
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| 0:32.1 | Hey everybody, Isaac here. |
| 0:34.3 | As you can probably tell, this is a bit of a different podcast episode for our normal |
| 0:41.0 | weekly podcast. Our editor, John, is traveling today, and so we're giving him the day off. |
| 0:47.6 | And we're actually going to use this space to release an episode that we've been sitting on for a |
| 0:51.8 | little bit. This was a really interesting conversation. |
| 0:55.1 | I got to moderate between two people on different sides of the immigration issue discussing |
| 1:01.6 | what was happening on our border. I think we explain pretty well the topic and the background |
| 1:09.2 | these people have and the intro to the podcast. So I'm just |
| 1:12.1 | going to let you guys listen to it, but I hope you enjoy. And we'll be back on Wednesday with |
| 1:16.7 | our regular programming. So you'll hear from us then. I hope you enjoy it. |
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