RANGE

EPISODE 008 | Are you there God? It's me, Yakima


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Immigration lawyer Stephen Robbins dials in for a WIDE ranging chat about life in Yakima -- currently the unexpected epicenter (or in Governor Inslee's words, "Eh-pee-center") of Coronavirus in Washington State. 

We cover the demographic and political environment in the county and how pre-existing sanitation and other abysmal conditions in the agricultural industry might be contributing to a public health crisis in a placewhere half the population sees not wearing masks as a patriotic statement and the other half works in an industry that is 50%-70% undocumented and lives very close to the edge in the best of times.

So yeah, it gets a little dark in this ep, but there's a labor fight that's actually going kinda well, so it ends on a hopeful note! 

SUPPLEMENTS

  • "DACA Survives" latest episode of Stephen's great immigration law podcast
  • Robbins on Twitter 
  • Spokesman story about Luis Cortes Romero, the U of Idaho Law grad who just saved DACA
  • Episode image of backbreaking Yakima farm labor courtesy of the Library of Congress 

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