Immigration Nerds

Author and Refugee Resettlement Coordinator Kate Rice joins the podcast.

Link to Kate's Book: How The Refugee Crisis Unites Americans

We discuss refugee resettlement and the surprising way it unifies the left with the right, the secular with the religious, particularly in the Bible Belt and other red states.

Get Involved Below:

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services https://www.lirs.org/

World Relief https://worldrelief.org/ 

Church World Service https://cwsglobal.org/

HIAS https://www.hias.org/

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants https://refugees.org/

International Rescue Committee https://help.rescue.org/.

Episcopal Migration Ministries https://episcopalmigrationministries.org/

UNHCR UN High Commissioner for Refugees https://give.unrefugees.org/

American Business Immigrant Coalition ABIC.US

Maine Business Immigrant Coalition https://mainebic.org/

Texas Business Immigration Coalition https://www.texasbic.biz/

RAICES: The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services

Being able to get a lawyer is makes a huge difference for immigrants (who include refugees) trying to regularize their legal status here:

Here are three groups: 

Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition https://www.caircoalition.org/

Immigrant Justice Corps: https://justicecorps.org/

Refugee Justice League: https://www.refugeejustice.org

And it's available wherever books are sold as well!

In this episode, we identify the unlikely driving force that helps pull the levers of migration, public health outbreaks. Pandemics, like the novel coronavirus, can initiate and influence the movement of citizens around the world.

To help us navigate the uncertainty, we talk to Dr. Erin Sorrell, a member of the Center for Global Health Science and Security as well as an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University.

In January, the government began collecting DNA from detainees at the border to ensure that families are who they say they are, but how may this act of security, result in encroaching upon our private lives.

Helping us this week is Natalie Ram, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. Natalie is a top scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law, publishing groundbreaking research in Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law, Columbia and many more.

Erickson Immigration Group Managing Director Hiba Anver helps map out the latest iteration of the Travel Ban, executive order.

We discuss the latest in immigration news that happened this week including:

• Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to lift preliminary injunction on Public Charge ruling
• The economy of Birth Tourism, and what the administration plans to do to combat its growth
• Travel Ban predictions and the reasoning used to justify its impending expansion

In honor of Lunar New Year, we are releasing a past episode that dives into the traditions, myths and lore surrounding the holiday.

EIG attorneys Stephanie Tan and Dora Wang join to share their family experiences.

EIG’s Senior Attorney and Liberian Native Jowanda Jones joins the podcast to explain the latest in the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act. She shares how to qualify for the act that now allows a direct pathway to citizenship. In addition, we unravel Liberia's inseparable ties to the United States, revealing just how American Liberians truly are.

Executive producer and Host of "Immigrantly" podcast Saadia Khan joins.

Immigrantly is a weekly podcast that captures the honest and unfiltered accounts of first and second generation immigrants in America. Saadia holds an MBA, and masters in Human Rights. She seeks to mend the current state of polarization and divisiveness among cultural, racial and ethnic lines. Together we discuss the experience of reconciling having a duel identity, the pressures to assimilate, and recognizing how the current political climate has effectively shifted the way people perceive and treat immigrants.

As the holiday season nears, EIG wants to ensure that you have the documentation and information you need for international travel. We go over some frequently asked questions with answers to make sure you are well on your way during this busy time.

In today’s brief update, USCIS recently announced the new Electronic Registration requirement for the upcoming H-1b Lottery. EIG’s Managing Director Hiba Anver joins the podcast to share what to expect for this upcoming CAP season.