Julio and Maria talk with Arjun Singh Sethi, a civil rights lawyer, writer and law professor who interviewed 13 survivors of hate crimes and edited their testimonies for his new book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out.   ITT Staff Picks

• Why does the U.S. fail at gathering hate crime stats? ProPublica explains.

• HuffPost's story on the tragedy of the Jabara family and the rise of Islamophobia. 

• America Ferrera writes about Jeanette Vizguerra in the latest 100 Most Influential People list from TIME.

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In this rebroadcast episode from earlier this year, Maria and Julio are joined by Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist with Transgender Law Center, and Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer and co-host of Radio Menea. They discuss the LGBT rights movement and how the media can do a better job of covering the LGBT community.   

 ITT Staff Picks:

• Check out Latino USA's Interview with the stars of FX's 'Pose.'
• Read about The New York Times' coverage of LGBT candidates running in midterms. 
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Back in February, Maria and Julio sat down with immigration activist Ravi Ragbir, who had endured what a federal judge called an "unnecessarily cruel" detainment and was threatened with a scheduled deportation. Since then, Ravi has been granted a stay from a New Jersey judge. But earlier this month, he was back in court in New York, fighting to be granted a second stay in hopes of preventing his new scheduled deportation date, September 7, 2018. With the recent updates to Ravi's case, In The Thick brings a special rebroadcast of Maria and Julio's conversation with Ravi and Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the NYCLU. 

ITT Staff Picks:

• The Intercept's latest reporting on the First Amendment lawsuit that Ravi is a part of.
• Amy Gottlieb, the associate regional director of the Northeast Region of American Friends Service Committee and Ravi's wife, wrote this OpEd in the Washington Post. 
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In 2008, ICE agents descended on a small rural town in Iowa for their largest operation in the history of the United States. As a result, the population of Postville was slashed almost in half and its economy collapsed. Maria and Julio talk to Almudena Toral and Ronny Rojas, two of the journalists behind a new documentary from Univision detailing the aftermath of the raid.   ITT Staff Picks

• Watch the full documentary on Postville, at the Univision site for free (available in English and Spanish).

• Do immigrants actually "steal" jobs in small rural towns? This American Life asked an economist to answer this question.

• Read this report from the Center for American Progress on the financial costs of mass deportation.
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A year after the tragedy of Charlottesville and just days after the Unite The Right 2 Rally, Julio talks with returning ITT guest Mike German, a former FBI agent who once infiltrated white supremacy groups undercover.   ITT Staff Picks

• The Atlantic on how white nationalists are winning.

• Unite The Right 2 could be called a failure, but it's not time to claim victory, according to a former NYPD officer.

• Pop Culture Collab puts the focus on white nationalism, rather than white supremacists, in this essay.

• Wired's 2011 report on the FBI's racial profiling mapping tool.

• Check out last year's rebroadcast of Mike's original interview with ITT following the Unite The Right 2017 rally. 
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Maria and Julio talk about the work of Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels' attorney...and future 2020 presidential candidate, maybe?) to reunite immigrant families. His clients are parents who have been deported, and whose kids are still in the U.S., so his approach is to send the kids back to their home countries to be reunited. This is a controversial strategy that has been criticized by many long-time immigration lawyers. They also call up immigration attorney, Amy Maldonado, for her expertise on the topic.   ITT staff picks

• Listen to the latest Latino USA profile on Juan Sánchez, the CEO of one of the largest companies sheltering immigrant kids. 
• In June, this story of Morning Edition showed how difficult it would be to reunite the families.
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Maria and Julio catch up with all-star Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root, and Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter at Vox. They talk the latest with conspiracy theories, Paul Manafort's white male hubris, Unite the Right 2 and how Omarosa's drama could threaten cybersecurity.    ITT Staff Picks: 

• Jane's latest for Vox about what the Unite the Right 2 rally tells us about white supremacy in the United States.
• Terrell's coverage of the Paul Manafort trial for The Root.
• A look at Paul Manafort's ties to Ukraine and kleptocracy in the United States, by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic.
• Vox's reporting on the study Julio mentions from the University of Alabama’s George Hawley, published by UVA’s Institute for Family Studies, that 11 million white Americans share the same beliefs as the "alt-right" or white supremacists. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Maria and Julio talk about the role of POC journalism in the Trump era including the latest revelations on the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, the National Association of Black Journalists' latest resolution and the silent departure of one of the few Latinx in The White House.

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- If you don't know her, you should absolutely read this New York Times obituary of Ida B. Wells (published recently to compensate for a racist oversight for not publishing this when she died in 1931) as an homage to some of the greatest women in the USA.

• Read the statement of the National Association of Black Journalists rejecting Trump's attacks on journalists.

• From the archives, read this interview with Helen Aguirre Ferré, the former Hispanic spokesperson of the Trump administration.
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Maria and Julio catch up with immigration organizers Cristina Jiménez, executive director of United We Dream, and Grecia Lima, national political director of The Center for Community Change. They talk about the latest court decision on DACA, the recent white supremacist rally in Portland and The Washington Post's problematic coverage of white minorities in rural Pennsylvania.  Want more?

• The Nation explains the movement to divest from companies that are making money out of immigration enforcement.
• Our friends at Latino Rebels on why The Washington Post’s ‘White, and in the minority’ article is dangerous.
• The protests after the death of Joey Santos, chronicled by the local publication, Leigh Valley Live. 
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This week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported that a migrant toddler died shortly after being released from an ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas. There are 11,000 kids are living in these detention facilities across the country. Maria and Julio talk with immigration attorney, Amy Maldonado about the immigration detention centers and what she calls our immigration "kangaroo courts."    Want more?

• The Intercept's story on the two Brazilian boys represented by Amy Maldonado.
• The next battlefield at the border is in asylum interview rooms, according to Vox.
• Data shows that parents were targeted by Trump's policy (from Buzzfeed news).
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