In The Thick

Maria and Julio are back in the studio to talk about a recent OIG report that establishes the detrimental mental health impacts of family separation and conditions in detention facilities on migrant children. They also discuss CNN’s climate crisis town hall with 2020 candidates, the devastation in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, and an ongoing story from this week about ICE agents opening fire while attempting to apprehend a man near Nashville.

ITT Staff Picks

• Trump’s family separation policy amplified children’s trauma, via Roll Call
• 6 winners and 3 losers from CNN’s climate crisis town hall, via Vox
• Death and destruction stalk Bahamas in wake of Hurricane Dorian, via Al JazeeraFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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  Maria and Julio are joined by Abigail Leslie Andrews, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego to discuss her latest book, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants. They talk about political engagement within undocumented communities and the dehumanizing impact of forced displacement and deportation of immigrants that she's witnessed through her work as co-director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program at UCSD.    ITT Staff Picks: 

• Immigrants Will Be Vital to the Future of American Democracy, via The Nation
• Why Non-Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote, from Jacobin Magazine
• What's Missing From The Immigration Conversation Right Now, from ITT All-Star Tina Vasquez in Bustle

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Maria and Julio are joined by the journalist and feminist author, Mona Eltahawy to discuss her new book, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. They also talk about #MeToo, the power of fighting back, feminist activism through hashtags on social media and the importance of women’s voice in defying the patriarchy. 

ITT Staff Picks:

• Mona Eltahawy’s viral social media campaigns about sexual assault, via Time
• Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi gets more time in jail for a poem about vaginas, via CNN
• Check out Deena Mohamed's web comic, Qahera about a feminist muslim Egyptian superhero

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Since Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress, she’s faced consistent attacks from the GOP and Donald Trump, even as far as the president telling her and three other Congresswomen to “go back to their country.” These attacks illustrate the greater struggle of being a black Muslim woman in this country today. Maria and Julio are joined by Shamira Ibrahim, culture writer on race, identity, and politics, and Margari Hill, co-founder and executive director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, to discuss how these intersecting identities lead to anti-blackness both within the Muslim community and in the U.S. at large.

ITT Staff Picks:

• A Neverending Quest for Sovereignty, Shamira Ibrahim’s essay on identity for The Root.
• How Ilhan Omar’s intersecting identities makes her a target, via The Intercept.
• The first-ever hijabi to land a major modeling contract is a black refugee woman, from Paper Magazine.  

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Originally from Benghazi, Libya, Mohanad Elshieky has found in comedy a space to discuss and laugh about immigration, politics and white privilege in the United States. Maria and Julio talk with him about Hollywood, bidets and his encounter with immigration officers in a Greyhound. 

ITT Staff Picks:

• Mohanad's TEDx talk on being an immigrant and using humor to connect with people.
• “They Kept Repeating the Word ‘Illegals.'” -- The Willamette Week's article on Mohanad's encounter with the CBP.
• Mohanad is going on tour with the amazing Pop-Up Magazine. You can get your tickets here.

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Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones led a team of black journalists, writers and poets to create The 1619 Project, a deep and thoughtful look into the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in this country. But a lot of the response has been predictably critical. Maria and Julio are joined by ITT All-Stars, Wajahat Ali, New York Times contributing op-ed writer and contributor with CNN, and Dr. Eddie Glaude, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, to discuss the significance of this project and its response. They also talk about the Antifa movement and Israel’s decision to ban Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting.   Help In The Thick grow by telling our advertisers a bit about you as a member of the ITT community! Take this QUICK survey. 

ITT Staff Picks:

• Don’t miss The 1619 Project from The New York Times Magazine.
• Everything that went down at the 30-minute Proud Boys rally in Portland, from HuffPost.
• How the barring of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from Israel is highlighting BDS, via The Daily Beast.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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From the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Christchurch, New Zealand, to the Charlottesville car attack in 2017, it’s clear that white nationalists and the “alt-right” are not just living on the dark corners of the internet, but actually carry out deadly violence in the world. Maria and Julio talk with Alexandra Minna Stern, professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, about her latest book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination. They discuss white nationalist groups and how misogyny and white supremacy are the underlying ideals that motivate them.

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ITT Staff Picks:

• Alexandra Minna Stern’s essay for The Progressive, about how the alt-right plans to take over.
• How white supremacist terror is becoming strategic, via The Atlantic.
• Read about the weird, dark history of 8chan, from Wired. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Maria and Julio are joined by ITT All-Stars, Terrell Jermaine Starr and Jamilah King, to discuss the surge in white supremacist and anti-immigrant violence instilled by the current administration, following the recent shootings in Texas, Ohio and California. They also talk about the latest state-sponsored attacks on the immigrant community: last week's largest single-state immigration raid in US history in Mississippi and USCIS’ announcements on cutting down immigrant benefits from all federal agencies.

ITT Staff Picks:

• ITT All-Star, Lulu Garcia-Navarro's article on the erasure of Latinos by the media after the El Paso shooting, via the Atlantic
• Why white supremacist violence is rising today — and how it echoes some of the darkest moments of our past, via Vox
• Gene Demby's latest for NPR's Code Switch that we mentioned, and an article from The New Republic that discusses the history of immigration in the U.S., including the 1875 Page Act and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that Maria discussesFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Entirely situated within the 100-mile border zone, Michigan has the second-highest rate of ICE arrests in the country. This has had a huge and detrimental impact on Detroit residents, a city of immigrants. Maria and Julio are joined by Serena Maria Daniels, immigration reporter and co-founder of Tostada Magazine, and Sarah Rahal, breaking news and immigration reporter with the Detroit News, to discuss the impact ICE and CBP have had on Michigan’s POC and immigrant communities.

ITT Staff Picks:

• The U.S. was the only country he knew, but he was forced to die in Iraq, via Detroit Free Press.
• Sarah Rahal’s piece on Iraqi immigrants fearing deportation, from the Detroit News.
• Serena Maria Daniels writes about how she stays connected to her Mexican culture through food, via Hour Detroit. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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There have been over 250 mass shootings in the U.S., averaging to at least one shooting a day, according to the Gun Violence Archive. After this weekend's two mass shootings, Maria and Julio are joined by award-winning journalist Bob Moore, and Cynthia Pompa, Advocacy Manager of the Border Rights Center at ACLU of Texas, to discuss the devastating impact of white supremacy and domestic terrorism in the Borderland. They also talk to Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas’ 16th Congressional District in El Paso to see how the community is coping.

ITT Staff Picks:

• Julio's latest with NBC News discussing Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric
• The El Paso shooter may not be charged as a terrorist via Buzzfeed News
• The victims of the weekend's mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, via Buzzfeed NewsFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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