What Now For Dreamers?; Reaching Women Who Voted For Trump; New Jersey Bail...
After the Senate failed to pass any kind of immigration reform last week Anu Joshi, Immigration Policy director at the New York Immigration Coalition, talks about the political steps needed to revive...
View ArticleWhat Now For Dreamers?
Anu Joshi, immigration policy director at The New York Immigration Coalition, and Angie Kim, community engagement and advocacy coordinator at The National Korean American Service and Education...
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Uncertain Times for DACA College Students on U.S.-Mexico Border
In September, President Trump set March 5th as the day he was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA, unless Congress can come up with a fix. The program protects...
View ArticleTrump, Guns and Steel
NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith talks about the latest news coming out of Washington, including ongoing calls for gun control and President Trump's call to impose heavy tariffs on imported...
View ArticleMarch 5th Is Just Another Monday for Young Immigrants Awaiting Legislation
President Trump announced last September that he would phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the program that protects young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally or...
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Uncertain About Their Own Futures, DACA Teachers Find Special Connection with...
When Astou asked her seventh grade students to write personal essays, she modeled the assignment with a personal story of her own.As debate raged in Washington over the future of DACA, Astou, a writing...
View ArticleWhen the President & Laura Ingraham Troll Kids
Jamil Smith, senior writer for Rolling Stone, joins to discuss the latest in political headlines from over the weekend -- including how President Trump trolled DACA recipients on Twitter on Easter...
View ArticleDespite Myth, Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes but Receive Few Benefits
There are roughly 12.5 million people living in the United States without legal status. Those people, in addition to the nearly one million DACA recipients, are vilified in some circles due to the...
View ArticleTrumping Hate
There’s been a lot of conversation about whether Donald Trump has inspired a new wave of hate in America.Reveal reporter Will Carless set out to understand the president’s role in hundreds of hate...
View ArticleInstitutions of Higher Earning (rebroadcast)
Across the country, universities are being criticized over issues of money: from how they spend their endowments, to how they raise tuition, to how they award financial aid. Many students are feeling...
View ArticleInter-Korean Peace Through The Eyes of a North Korean Defector
Here's what you'll find on today's show:— At the age of 13, Yeonmi Park staged a daring escape from North Korea. But the treacherous journey carried an uncertain promise of freedom; she faced a...
View ArticleSeven States Sue to End DACA
On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against the federal government. At issue is the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, otherwise known as DACA....
View ArticleDream On
In "Dream On," Amy Davidson Sorkin write's about how the Administration's incompetence and the courts' rectitudes have seen the Dreamers through. But those factors may be temporary safeguards.
View Article'The American People Just Need To Know What Happened'
Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Representative (NY-8), discusses the national political news of the day, including the latest on the Mueller investigation, presidential pardons and criminal justice reform, and...
View ArticleThe DACA Dreamers' Struggles, Fears, & Triumphs
Reporter Timothy Pratt tells the stories of Dreamers in the midst of a Trump presidency and the struggles, fears, and obstacles these students have to face in the path to getting their degree in his...
View ArticleA City of Fear for Undocumented Immigrants
With a drastic increase in ICE arrests and DACA’s uncertain future, many of New York’s estimated 500,000 undocumented residents fear for their safety. New York Magazine editor Genevieve Smith and Ivy...
View Article448 Days, 12 Hearings and $58,000: One Dreamer's Journey Through the...
UPDATE: On Dec. 19 at 9 p.m. Jorge Chacon was released from the Essex County Detention Center after ICE declined to appeal a judge's November ruling that he be freed and given legal permanent status....
View ArticleThe 2019 Rhodes Scholar Class Includes Its First-Ever DACA Recipient
Thirty-two students from across the country were named the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2019, including two from New York and two from New Jersey. The Rhodes Scholarship fully funds up to three...
View ArticleI Married A Dreamer During The Trump Presidency
Vanessa and Freddy had been dating for just a few months when she first brought up the idea of marriage, while they were eating at their favorite taco place. "He just was silent, like he just looked at...
View ArticleA New Jersey Rapper Shares his Immigration Status
Alexis Torres Machado was only five when his family left Uruguay and moved to Newark. His parents told him he was undocumented when he was 11.Machado, 23, is now a senior at Rutgers University-Newark...
View ArticleA Cautionary Tale For DACA Recipients From A Detained Student
In March of 2018, Omar Helalat was a college student at SUNY Albany preparing to earn his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He said he was bound for an internship in New York City."I was...
View ArticleDACA Goes to the Supreme Court
An immigrant lawyer who has been living under DACA protection from deportation will argue in favor of the policy at the Supreme Court; if he loses his cases, he will be eligible for deportation. Dana...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
Jeff Sessions, then the Attorney General, announced in 2017 the cancellation of the Obama-era policy known as DACA—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. A number of plaintiffs sued, and their case...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
Jeff Sessions, then the Attorney General, announced in 2017 the cancellation of the Obama-era policy known as DACA—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. A number of plaintiffs sued, and their case...
View ArticleSCOTUS Hears DACA
Jami Floyd, WNYC's legal editor and host of All Things Considered, and Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, team up to discuss the Supreme Court arguments challenging...
View ArticleTwo Monumental Cases are Being Argued at the Supreme Court
This week, while all eyes have been focused on the impeachment hearings in the House, two monumental cases are being argued at the Supreme Court. In one, the justices heard arguments on whether or not...
View ArticleDACA Dilemma: When an International Scholarship Might Mean Deportation
The Supreme Court is expected to rule in June on President Trump's elimination of DACA, the program that protected so-called Dreamers from deportation. But that might be too late for Rutgers University...
View ArticleDACA Recipients Hurry to Renew Immigration Protections Before Supreme Court...
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether President Trump acted legally by ending the program known as DACA, and many local recipients are applying for renewals way ahead of time, in...
View ArticleGetting White People to Talk About Racism
George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which racist systems are intrinsic to America. The anti-racism trainer Suzanne Plihcik argues that racism...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions. In 2017, Jeff Sessions, then the Attorney General, announced the cancellation of DACA—Deferred Action for...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA, a policy that protects young immigrants commonly known as...
View ArticleCOVID News; Art and Black Lives Matter; A NY-17 Primary Preview; and SCOTUS'...
Coming up on today's show -- hosted by WNYC host Sean Carlson: As New York City prepares to enter phase two of re-opening -- which could be as soon as Monday -- Dr. Angela Rasmussen, virologist at...
View ArticleDACA Stands, Supreme Court Rules
Trump tried to rescind an Obama policy granting legal status for those who illegally immigrated as children. The Supreme Court said the reversal was "arbitrary and capricious."On Today's Show:Jami...
View ArticleWhat the Supreme Court's Decision Means for DACA Recipients
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA. DACA was established by the Obama administration in...
View ArticleAt the Supreme Court: A Big Day for DACA, and a Bad Day for Trump
This week, in a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled unlawful the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel the DACA program. DACA protects from deportation some seven hundred thousand undocumented...
View ArticleLife In Legal Limbo: A Dreamer Reflects
Imagine this: two siblings, only two years apart, doing practically everything together. But only one has legal status. That’s how 21-year-old Juan Mireles-Palomar and his big sister Eva, grew up. He...
View ArticleNJ Could Be First In East Coast To Let Undocumented Immigrants Get...
Estrella Rivas, 20, dreams of being a doctor. She wants to be a surgeon, or maybe a pediatrician.But for years, one barrier blocker her way: her undocumented status."I just kept pushing and continuing...
View Article30 Issues: DACA, Immigrants Without Documents and the Candidates
New York Times immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson talks about how the Trump administration has tried to cancel DACA, where it stands now, all the Trump administration has done with the wall, family...
View ArticleThe President and COVID-19; The Supreme Court is Back in Action; 30 Issues:...
Coming up on today's show: Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter for the Associated Press and political analyst for MSNBC/NBC News, offers analysis of the latest political news, and updates on the...
View ArticleNew DACA Ruling Has Undocumented Immigrants Hopeful Biden Will Expand Program
Undocumented immigrants in New York believe a Brooklyn federal judge’s ruling on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (known as DACA) will expand the Obama-era program that President Donald Trump has...
View ArticleTrump Administration Allows Young Immigrants to Apply for DACA Protections...
For the first time since 2017, immigrants can apply for the DACA program that provides work authorization and protection from deportation.Read more at Gothamist.
View ArticlePolitics with Amy Walter: What Happens to Immigration and DACA Under the...
During the 2016 election, President Trump spent a considerable amount of time talking about immigration. On the campaign trail, he made racist comments about Mexicans and one of his first acts in...
View ArticleWith DACA Restored, Thousands Of Immigrants Wait For Applications To Be...
In the six weeks after a federal judge in New York ordered the Trump administration to restore Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and accept first-time applicants along with renewals, more...
View ArticleTrump's Last Day in Office; Meet the Candidate: Zach Iscol; The Latest COVID...
Coming up on today's show:On his last full day in office, Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker, CNN global affairs analyst and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Man Who Ran Washington: The...
View ArticleWhat a Biden Presidency Means to Immigrants
Immigrant listeners call in to talk about their hopes for the Biden administration.Immigrants: What are your hopes for immigration reform under a Biden administration? Which immigration policies do you...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; Extremists in the Military; The Pandemc's Toll on...
On today's show:Tarini Parti, White House reporter at The Wall Street Journal, talks about the latest national political news.Analysis from NPR finds that nearly 1 in 5 people charged over their...
View ArticleImmigration Issues at the Court; Fixing Penn Station; Music for the Longest...
Coming up on today's show:The Supreme Court plans to issue a decision on the so-called "remain in Mexico" case soon, and the 10th anniversary of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was...
View ArticleImmigration Issues at the Court
The Supreme Court plans to issue a decision on the so-called "remain in Mexico" case soon, and the 10th anniversary of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was earlier this month. Elora...
View ArticleThe Asylum Seekers' 'Maze'
Julia Preston, contributing writer for The Marshall Project, talks about why a possible work-permit solution isn't accessible to more asylum seekers, New York City officials' calls for a...
View ArticleA Blind Undocumented Social Worker's Journey in "Unseen"
As a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces uncertainty to obtain his college degree, become a social worker, and support his family. We're joined by director Set Hernandez to discuss the...
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