It's Not About the Avocados
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A new DHS report revealed dangerous overcrowding at a detention center in El Paso, Texas. But for immigration reporters who have been following the issue closely, this wasn’t really a surprise. Julio and guest co-host Tina Vasquez, senior immigration reporter for Rewire.News, are joined by Tanvi Misra, immigration reporter for CQ-Roll Call, and Fernanda Echavarri, immigration reporter for Mother Jones, to discuss the latest with immigration and the border. Plus, they talk about how their own reporting highlights how Trump's policies are really impacting communities on the ground.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Read Tina Vasquez’s latest series on the treatment of pregnant asylum seekers under Trump's zero-tolerance policy, via Rewire.News.
- Check out Tanvi Misra’s reporting on how a new HUD rule could impact thousands of children, from CityLab.
- Don’t miss Fernanda Echavarri’s latest coverage of the migrant community in San Antonio, via Mother Jones.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:26.0 | Would these sanctions just end up creating conditions that actually fuel migration even more. |
| 0:34.6 | Just like a lot of other policies that the Trump administration has put in place. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to In the Thicker podcast About Politics, Race and Culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Julio Rico Lovarela. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm Tina Vasquez stepping in as a guest co-host today for Maria Hinojosa. |
| 0:52.6 | That's right. |
| 0:53.7 | So excited to have you guest hosting with me, |
| 0:56.0 | Tina. |
| 0:57.0 | You're guest hosting with me from Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm in Harlem, you're in Greensboro. Yes. I'm so excited to have you Tina. I'm very |
| 1:06.2 | excited to be here. Thank you for having me. So today we're discussing all the ways the |
| 1:11.8 | Trump administration is impacting immigrants in this |
| 1:14.8 | country and I have to say the cast of people on this recording on this |
| 1:20.9 | podcast are just all stars. |
| 1:23.0 | Joining us from Washington, D.C. is Tan V. Mizra, immigration reporter for CQ roll call. |
| 1:28.6 | What's up, Tan Vee? |
| 1:29.6 | Hey, what's going on? |
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