Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is your weekly Friday Tiny Dig or Diglet where I talked to someone smart about the past

week's news. Unsurprisingly that news has been horrendous. The Trump administration

just as Houston started looking ahead at a long, expensive, and painful recovery,

and as yet another hurricane Irma loomed off the coast, announced that it will end DACA, a program that provides

protection from deportation to young undocumented immigrants who came to this country

as children.

Outrageous but hardly surprising, the move, if Congress doesn't act, will mean that some

800,000 people, who, by and large, know no other country but this one, and who thanks to DACA

have been able to work and go to college, will be eligible for deportation. It is, even by the brutal standards of

this country's history of immigration enforcement, spectacularly cruel.

My guest today is Cesar Guatemoucarsier Hernandez, a professor of law at the University of

Denver, and the author of the Always enlightening often depressing blog crimmigration.com.

Before we get started as you've no doubt noticed we are now doing two episodes a week, the longer dig and the

stiglet.

We've gotten a really great response, including dozens of new supporters on Patreon. To keep it going, however, we need yet more support still.

So thanks to everyone who has donated and if you're a regular listener or a new listener who's quickly fallen in love with the show,

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I really can't thank you enough. I get an email notification every time someone new donates and it gives me a really pleasant shot of dopamine which is the sort of drug relief at the bare minimum, the bare minimum,

that I'm going to need to make it through the Trump administration.

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