This week on Redirect, Matthew tries to "both sides" the ongoing coup, we discuss what we can expect from a Biden administration, and more. 

This week we're joined by Austin Kocher (@ackocher) and we engage in some wild speculation about the next three months, what a Biden administration might do, and how best to advocate for those changes. We also recorded a live CLE with Alina Das (@Das_Alina), immigration activist, lawyer, and professor of law at NYU. Her book, No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants, is a must read. Get a copy for yourself and for everyone you know. 

This week we're joined by immigration attorney Matt Cameron to discuss the last presidential debate and the 545 children (that we know of) whose parents cannot be located. 

This week we're joined by Holly Cooper (@abogadatejana), co-director UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, to talk about the Inspector General's report on family separation at the border. Spoiler alert! Turns out cruelty was the point all along! 

Also, the administration is slated to expand the use of "expedited removal." This is a process that could have devastating and lasting consequences for thousands of people. 

This week we're joined by Austin Kocher (@ackocher) to discuss what we could reasonably expect from a second Trump term or a Biden administration. We also note, completely without celebration and always mindful of our tone, that the President has contracted COVID-19. 

Not everything is terrible these days, just practically everything. This week Matthew and i discuss wrestling with few changes, forced hysterectomies, and the passing of Justice Ginsberg.

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This week Matthew and I reflect on 9/11, Paul Krugman's comments that we reacted like it was NBD, the agency that was born out of the tragedy (DHS) and the mistakes we made in the aftermath. 

This week we're joined by Austin Kocher (@ackocher), researcher at TRAC, to discuss the details and implications of their ongoing research on how COVID-19 is affecting the immigration court system.

You can follow the fine work of TRAC over at the Twitter, @TRACreports. 

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This week we're joined by Professor Laura Briggs to talk about her book, Taking Children. Professor Briggs is an expert on U.S. and international child welfare policy and on transnational and transracial adoption, and an excellent podcast guest. Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers.

We're also joined by Rick Perlstein, the author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980. Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”—and prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later. We talk about how we got from Reagan's "Open Borders" policy papers to "Build that Wall" chants, the differences between Reagan and Trump, and more. 

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This week we're joined by Jessica Goudeau, author of After the Last Border, to talk about her book and the slow destruction of the refugee resettlement program. Go buy her book at your local bookstore!

Jessica Goudeau has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, among many other places, and is a former columnist for Catapult. She produced projects for Teen Vogue (“Ask a Syrian Girl”) and “A Line Birds Cannot See,” a documentary about a young girl who crossed the border into the US on her own. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and served as a Mellon Writing Fellow and Interim Writing Center Director at Southwestern University. Goudeau has spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, TX and is the co-founder of Hill Tribers, a nonprofit that provided supplemental income for Burmese refugee artisans for seven years.