In The Thick

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.
• Read the New York Times Magazine profile on Michael Avenatti. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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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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Maria and Julio talk about the news with two all-stars: Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar on WGBH Radio, and Gabby Rivera, writer, artist, activist and our resident nerdberger. They discuss midterm elections, the latest on immigration policy and the spike of racist hate crimes in the United States. Want more?

• According to the ACLU, migrant parents were forced to sign papers that they couldn't read (from The Hill).
• From WBRU, Could Democrats Be Thwarted again in these Midterms?
• Bad conditions on shelters for immigrant kids are not new. Listen this Latino USA episode from 2014.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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It all started with deadly, violent protests against the Nicaraguan government, but did it really? In this special ITT EXTRA, Julio catches up with Latino USA producer Sayre Quevedo to hear the behind the scenes of his reporting for his latest explainer.    Want to read more?

• The crisis in images, from the BBC.

• Nicaragua is near a catastrophe, according to The Washington Post.

• The New York Times explains the increasingly important role of the church in the protests.
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Four weeks ago, no one knew her name, but now she gives hope for progressives across the country (and around the world). Julio and Maria talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about why she decided to run for Congress and what the future will bring for her and the Democratic Party.

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• Are Alexandria's endorsements of Democratic insurgents paying off?
• How some Democrats are rethinking their own party.
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She was the first Latina to run for vice president with the Green Party in 2008, but Rosa Clemente has long been organizing for political and social change. Maria and Julio talk to Rosa about her organizing work, the rap industrial complex and her independent reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.   Want to read/watch more?

• Rosa talks to Rolling Stone about why she didn't participate in the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
• Watch the mini-doc Puerto Rising, made by Rosa's collective PR On The Map.
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