The Immigration Hour

Today's show starts with a deep dive on Trump's ICE Enforcement Tweets and how that led to this last weekend's lack of actual enforcement action against the vulnerable

immigrant communities. We look at actual ICE Capability to carry out enforcement actions and the economic and societal impact of these actions. We spend some time talking about the least qualified head of immigration in our history. Finally, we do a deep dive on the new proposed Asylum Regulation changes, barring asylum seekers from the US who present at the border, and why that regulation is illegal.

With my co-host Laura Rosmarin, we take a deep dive today on the Pew Religious Survey showing that White Evangelicals are the LEAST likely to support refugees (shocking?). We also analyze in detail the positive effects of HR 1044, up for a vote today as the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019. Finally, we also discuss the "H-1B disease" and RFEs, along with the horrific nomination of Ronald Mortensen to be assistant secretary of state for refugees, population, and migration.

Today's podcast is dedicated to America on her birthday! We talk about the obligations we have to immigrants who have created her, how we are failing in those obligations right now, and how we can do better. We also touch on the Secret CBP Facebook Group, AOC's tweets about her detention visits, and how the Democratic Primary candidates chatted about immigration in their last debate!

This week's podcast features a deep dive on the postponed Immigration Raids and how ICE and DOJ/EOIR set up these families to be picked up. We also spend some time talking about the re-discovery of horrific conditions in baby jails run by CBP. Finally, we talk about the Humanitarian Crisis Aid bill pending in the House and its Senate counterpart, as well as Rep. Doug Collins awful bill, HR 3360, which ignores our international treaty obligations and attempts to eliminate asylum in the US.

On today's podcast, we delve deep into the meaning of Trump's Deportation Threat, turning ICE into the Boogeyman for immigrant children, and talking about ICE's recent mistreatment of a Vietnamese National. We also spend some time examining the Compromise on the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrant Act in the Senate, and we take a look at the Pew Research Center's newest Immigration #Facts!

Today's podcast featured a guest appearance by Phil Kuck, our newest attorney, and we talk about The Trump Tariff Threat and the "Mexican Miracle," How Trump/Miller/Kushner are actually implementing their xenophobic laws through policy changes like the recent diversity lottery chance, and we also discuss in detail the Vacancies Act and the Cuccinelli Appointment (illegal?) as "Acting USCIS Director."

Today we talk about USCIS and ICE's Regulatory Agenda for 2019 and 2020, ICE's continued detention of children, and the new social media requirements for visas from DOS. Sorry about the weird sound. New equipment. Will be fixed in the next episode!

Today's podcast takes a look at Immigration, Detention, and the Broken Immigration Court System, and a deep dive into the Eugenics basis of the Kushner Immigration Plan and the craziness of modern day "literacy tests."

In Today's Podcast, I am joined by my partner, Hiba Ghalib, as we discuss Immigrants and Crime, The Kushner Immigration Proposal, and the Kerfuffle of the Former DHS Secretary Nielsen's refusal to carry out poorly thought out Nationwide Raids late last year.

Today we take a deep dive into the "Kushner Immigration Proposal," we raise a voice about the ongoing separation of children from their families at the border, and we also analyze the "Trump Immigration Memo" calling for ways to make asylum harder to obtain in the U.S.