The Impact: Deportation without representation

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For Thanksgiving listening, I have an episode of The Impact, from my Weeds co-host Sarah Kliff. The Impact is a show about how policy shapes our lives. This season, Sarah and her team are focusing on the most exciting, innovative ideas at the state and local level. They crisscrossed the country and found that state and local officials are trying to fix some of our country’s biggest problems: campaign finance, affordable housing, educational inequality, and more. This episode focuses on immigration. While the federal government is trying to deport as many immigrants as possible, Oakland, California, is running a policy experiment to help immigrants stay in their communities. Immigrants have no constitutional right to attorneys in immigration court, but Oakland is giving as many immigrants as possible attorneys in court, free of charge. In this episode, find out how Oakland pulls this off when the federal government is against it — and how immigrants’ lives change when they get representation. Find The Impact on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Overcast | ART19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Zircon Show on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:16.2	So much of this show is about what's wrong with American politics and American life,
0:20.3	but it's Thanksgiving.
0:21.3	Let's talk about something going right.
0:23.3	Season 2 of Sarah Cless Amazing Podcasts The Impact Honestly, the impact is one of the things
0:27.5	that I like the most that the Vox does.
0:29.4	It is such a tonic in this moment.
0:32.4	Right now this season, it's all about the most interesting, inspiring, encouraging, or
0:36.4	revealing policies being tried in states and cities.
0:39.8	Every single episode of this show, every single one has made me feel a little bit better
0:43.6	about American politics in every episode as a journalist and somebody who watches this
0:48.0	stuff and thinks about it all the time.
0:50.2	It's reminded me what all this is actually supposed to be about, supposed to be about
0:53.9	making people's lives better through policy.
0:56.7	So I wanted to present one of the episodes here for you.
0:59.6	This is a dispatch from Oakland, California, where people are trying to work through a hard
1:03.3	problem and make the outcomes a little bit better, a little bit fair.
1:06.8	You can subscribe to the impact wherever you get your podcasts.
1:26.7	Like all the other office towers, you've got a Starbucks on the first floor in a bank.
1:32.4	This is Lisa Knox.
1:34.0	She's with my producer, Jillian, outside of what looks like an ordinary office building
1:39.0	in downtown San Francisco.
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