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- *This American Life - 600: Will I Know Anyone at This Party?
OCT 28, 2016 This week: Republicans struggling with the split in their own party. There’s a seismic, historic change going on in the Republican party this year. Producer Zoe Chace tells Ira about a place you can eavesdrop on a group of Republican friends as they fret and argue about that change week after week: a podcast called Ricochet. Ira talks to Rob Long, one of the hosts of the podcast, and to Avik Roy, who’s appeared on the show. Act One - Zoe connects the anti-immigrant sentiment in St. Cloud with a national network of organizations promoting anti-Muslim views and spreading fear about Sharia law. We hear how the Somali immigrants in town deal with their neighbors’ fears. And then a violent attack at a local mall inflames both sides. (44 minutes)
- 633: Our Town - Part Two Dec 15, 2017
WBEZ, This American Life, Dec 15, 2017 So many people in Albertville, AL wondered what it cost them in taxes when thousands of undocumented immigrants moved to their town. One woman drove our host Ira Glass to the grocery store to watch a random Latina mom buy some milk with government assistance, to try to prove her point. So what’d all the newcomers really cost? And what was their effect on crime, schools, and politics? Act One - Christmas Lights and Fender Benders In the early years, when immigrants first arrived in Albertville, the things that bothered the locals weren’t the things you usually hear about when people talk about immigration. Not jobs or wages or crime. It was small stuff. Neighbor-to-neighbor stuff. (19 minutes) Act Two - The March Latino residents decided to organize a peaceful march in support of a path to legal status, and their white neighbors were shocked when 5,000 people poured into the streets. (3 minutes) Act Three - Backlash Suddenly realizing just how many Latinos had moved to town, longtime residents jumped into action, fueled by a wave of national and statewide anti-immigration fever. Then in 2011, Alabama adopted the most extreme anti-immigrant law in the country. (19 minutes) Act Four - Let’s Do the Numbers One of the things we were excited to investigate when we went to Alabama was to answer the question at the heart of the immigration debate: what does it cost taxpayers when we let in millions of immigrants, documented and undocumented? In Albertville, how much was it? We asked economist Kim Rueben and her colleague Erin Huffer to run the numbers. (6 minutes) Act Five - Today In 2012, the fever broke, and the Albertville city council stopped targeting Latino residents. The mayor says he and the council are taking a cue from the public schools. During the years the city council was picking fights with the city’s Latino population, right across the street, at the offices of the Albertville City Schools, they were taking the exact opposite approach: trying to integrate them into the community. And they did an exceptionally competent job of it. (10 minutes)
- AP INVESTIGATION: Feds' failures imperil migrant children
AP INVESTIGATION: Feds' failures imperil migrant children Garance Burke, Associated Press, Jan. 25, 2016 3:59 PM EST "As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies, placing some young migrants in homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay, an Associated Press investigation has found."
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- The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/23550. The long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impacts are most likely to be found for prior immigrants or native-born high school dropouts. First-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born, but the second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S. This report concludes that immigration has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth in the U.S.
- The Nation - Meet the Heroic Greeks Rescuing the Refugees the EU Has Abandoned
Meet the Heroic Greeks Rescuing the Refugees the EU Has Abandoned Kia Mistilis, The Nation, February 24, 2016 "They’ve stepped into the gap, offering practical support to the thousands arriving daily on their shores."
- The State of Things - Undocumented Students Fear Deportation In North Carolina (32 min)
Undocumented Students Fear Deportation In North Carolina NPR The State of Things,Will Michaels & Frank Stasio, March 3, 2016
- UK Independent - Denmark 'criminalising decency' with crackdown on helping refugees, says woman prosecuted for giving lift
Denmark 'criminalising decency' with crackdown on helping refugees, says woman prosecuted for giving lift Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden, UK Independent, Saturday 12 March 2016
- Why Are Migrants From Central America Coming To The U.S.?
WAMU 1A, with Joshua Johnson, Jan. 10, 2019
An wide-ranging discussion of migration over the southern border that looks at U.S. policies and actions in Central America as far back as the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala.
Brian Winter Editor-in-chief, Americas Quarterly; vice president, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas; @BrazilBrian
Greg Grandin Professor of history, New York University; author, "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall"; @GregGrandin
Elizabeth Oglesby Professor, Latin American studies, Arizona State University
Franco Ordoñez White House correspondent, McClatchy Washington bureau; @FrancoOrdonez