The Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, longtime journalists Melissa and Todd speak with fascinating fronterizos, community leaders, migrants, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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How Fear Changed America. First released in 2020, Homeland Insecurity is an 8-part documentary podcast from RAICES that chronicles the untold story of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We go back to the beginning, when our government built a powerful new agency in the wake of 9/11 to protect America from terrorists—only to use that agency to terrorize immigrants. From family separation to federal agents deployed amidst protests against systemic injustices, the scope and cruelty of D ...
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Charta is a dramatic audio podcast created, written, directed and produced by Dereck Fahie. The show is set at the fictional “Breakwall Marina,” charter yacht company office in the Virgin Islands. The series follows two struggling boat captains Deni Mesa, a former Coast Guardsman, and his former shipmate Steve Roberts. Migrant smuggling is the engine that drives the show. There are five main cast members Deni Mesa, Steve Roberts, Sandra Nelson, Joe Gilbert and Kris Imani. Additionally, the m ...
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Immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship is possible, but it'll take all of us to make it happen! Join co-hosts Carlos Yanez Navarro, Karina Dominguez, and Danny Orona on the Fuerte Network to talk about this moment in the immigration fight and what we can do to bring relief to 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Join us as we share our immigration journeys, news, and calls to action!
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A limited podcast series about the politics of immigration, faith as radical hospitality, and the borders between church and state. In the spring of 1982, six faith communities in Arizona and California declared themselves places of safe harbor for hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans and Guatemalans that had been denied legal proceedings for political asylum in the U.S. Alleging that immigration officials had intentionally miscategorized Central Americans as ‘economic migrants’ in order to ...
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What is Taiwan for the world and the world for Taiwan? In this podcast series, a group of Taiwan specialists based at the University of Central Lancashire, chat with book writers, artists, directors, professionals from, or with, an interest in Taiwan and explore how the ‘little’ island of Taiwan can be a starting point to (re)think the way we look at the world. Whether you already know Taiwan, you want to know more about it, or you just want to be inspired by it, this is the podcast for you! ...
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Intersectionality in the American South is a podcast for anyone whose ready to take a long, hard, look at the ways oppressive systems land in people’s lives. We bring together academics and everyday people in conversations about the intersectional forms of oppression that marginalized people experience. You will hear thought provoking conversations about hard topics that center the often-silenced voices of Women of color, queer, trans and non binary folks and immigrants.
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Humanitarian Aid Is Never a Crime: A Podcast with Scott Warren
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1:09:48How did the first Trump administration crack down on providing water and aid for migrants? And what insights we can gain from that now? In 2019 geographer and humanitarian aid volunteer Scott Warren faced 20 years in prison for doing humanitarian work on the border. After two long trials, a jury acquitted him in November of two felony charges of ha…
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Filmmaker Alex Rivera on his Cult Classic "Sleep Dealer", and Creating a New Cinema for the Border
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44:05Filmmaker Alex Rivera debuted Sleep Dealer, his groundbreaking border science fiction movie, at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. The film won several awards but did not receive the wide commercial release it deserved. Over the years, Sleep Dealer has been rereleased on digital platforms and become a cult classic. The Border Chronicle is proud to…
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Immigration Detention Inc.: A Conversation with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
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50:50The authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative. Who profits from immigrant detention, and how is the money made? Geographers Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon have investigated these questions for 10 years, producing one of the most thorough examin…
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Jesse Franzblau is a senior policy analyst at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrants and advocates for their rights. Franzblau spent years documenting rights abuses in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands for the organization’s Transparency and Human Rights Project. He now advocates for be…
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Professional Chat: Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains, with Bonny Ling
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46:29This episode’s host, Adina Zemanek, invited Dr. Bonny Ling, executive director of Work Better Innovations, to talk about Taiwan as a home for migrant workers, and decent work in supply chains. After a brief overview of key risks in this area, we touched upon Taiwan’s major legislation to date in a global context, and addressed the importance of eco…
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What Does Security Really Mean? Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller Analyze the First Seven Months of Trump
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38:03A discussion about security as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this? Why is it that when the word “security” is uttered, all thought and analysis go out the window? This is especially the case when people talk about “border security.” In this podcast, howe…
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Climate, Tech, Borders, and Gaza: A Podcast with Amali Tower
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1:05:00A lively conversation about how surveillance tech, created and tested in Israel & the US, targets climate refugees across the world. And how refugees have much better solutions than more of the same. In this episode the executive director of Climate Refugees, Amali Tower, crosses the globe from Israel/Palestine to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to loo…
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From Seeking Asylum to a Life of Service: Dora Rodriguez on Her New Memoir "A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain."
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42:28Dora Rodriguez fled the death squads in El Salvador during the civil war. Seeking asylum in the United States in 1980, she nearly died crossing the Sonoran Desert but miraculously survived. She remained in Tucson, Arizona, becoming a social worker and a formidable organizer and advocate for immigrants and for human rights. Her story embodies multit…
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The Cost of Being Undocumented: A Podcast with Alix Dick and Antero Garcia
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42:00Alix Dick arrived in the U.S. more than a decade ago, fleeing violence in Sinaloa, Mexico, that tore her family apart. But the impact of living without legal status in the United States has been almost as brutal as the violence she fled. In her new memoir, The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman’s Reckoning with America’s Inhumane Math, cowritten…
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The Endangered Rio Grande Can Still Be Saved: A Podcast with Maria-Elena Giner
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24:56In an in-depth interview for The Border Chronicle, Maria-Elena Giner reflects on her tenure since being ousted last week by the Trump administration as commissioner for one of the most critical federal agencies on the U.S.-Mexico border. The full conversation has been edited for length and clarity. The International Boundary and Water Commission is…
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New Border Wall is an 'Ecological Catastrophe': A Podcast with The Sierra Club's Erick Meza
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36:23The Trump administration has begun issuing contracts for border wall construction. During the first Trump administration, contractors dynamited mountains and depleted groundwater, including the Quitobaquito, a sacred spring for the Tohono O’odham tribal nation, to produce concrete for the wall. Under the Real ID Act, dozens of laws protecting the e…
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State of the Border 100 Days after Trump: A Podcast with Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller
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49:39In a lively conversation, The Border Chronicle founders grapple with the last three months of militarization and surveillance, and ponder what’s to come. What is happening on the border three months into the Trump administration? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Here, Border Chroniclefounders Melissa and Todd spend the hour discussing just tha…
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Hope is a Practice: Bearing Witness to Palestinian Humanity
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1:02:43In this episode, We speak with Sig Giordano who offers a first hand account of their time in the West Bank picking olives alongside Palestinians during the annual olive harvest. Giordano candidly takes the listener through their learning journey as the granddaughter of Nazi holocaust survivors and advocate for Palestinian liberation. This episode o…
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A Live Podcast from Patagonia, Arizona, with Award-Winning Authors Luis Alberto Urrea and Gary Nabhan
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1:39:14On March 12, Todd and Melissa were thrilled to moderate a panel with the distinguished authors: Luis Alberto Urrea and Gary Nabhan. Urrea has written several novels, including The Hummingbird’s Daughter and Queen of America (about his great-aunt Teresita Urrea, known as the Saint of Cabora), as well as the Pulitzer Prize–nominated nonfiction book T…
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Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
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23:50In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited one of her co-editors, Dr Ian Rowen, to talk about their forthcoming book publication, A Taiwanese Eco-literature Reader, soon to be published by Columbia University Press. This anthology brings together translations of nine compelling stories from Taiwan, examining Taiwan’s most vibrant literary genre and…
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Mass Deportations Will Tear Our Society Apart: A Q&A with David Bier, Immigration Expert with the Libertarian Cato Institute
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1:04:47David Bier, director of immigration studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, goes in depth on what really happened to the U.S. immigration system during President Trump’s first administration and President Biden’s administration. In his January testimony before Congress, Bier noted that more than 30 times the courts found that Trum…
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Art Chat: Home and Cetacean Photography, with Ray Chin
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33:37In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Ray Chin金磊, a Taiwanese wildlife photographer who pioneered in the field of underwater and cetacean photography. In the last two decades, Ray has travelled from Taiwan to the Pacific islands, then to the Galapagos islands and the Nordic seas to capture breathtaking photos of whales and dolphins. Today, not…
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The Migrant Criminality Narrative: A Podcast with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
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51:08One of the nation’s top immigration scholars cuts through the crap and lays bare this moment of border and immigration control, how we got here, and where we’re headed. With Donald Trump, one thing has been constant since he announced his first campaign in 2016: the narrative that migrants are criminals. He says it with confidence and bluster, and …
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Living History: Students Uncover An Ancestral Past
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1:10:44In this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, host Dr. Katie Acosta highlights reflections on the Gullah Geechee Immersive Field School taken by students from Georgia State University and the College of Charleston. Students share their thoughts and feelings about visiting historic sites like McLeod Plantation and Sullivan's Island, me…
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What Is Texas’s Operation Lone Star, and What Happens If Trump Makes It a National Model? A Podcast with Texas Civil Rights Advocate Bob Libal
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51:05In 2021 Texas governor Greg Abbott created Operation Lone Star, a state-funded system for immigration enforcement and detention. At a cost of more than $11 billion, the system has deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers and state police to the Texas-Mexico border. These deployments have become the backdrop for the MAGA movement’s “invasion” m…
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Book Chat: The Life Story of Father Nguyễn, a Vietnamese Refugee Who Migrated to Taiwan, with Lin Shu-fen
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34:45In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, introduces a book she co-edited with Dr Polina Ivanova (University of Bremen) titled Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia: Perspective from Japan and Taiwan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), and she interviews one of the authors of the book, Dr Shu-fen Lin, at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. In this …
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Professional Chat – Working with the most marginalised people in Taiwan, AIDS/HIV and undocumented migrants, with Yi-Fan Feng
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38:08In this episode, our host Lara Momesso interviews Yi-Fan Feng (馮一凡), the Deputy Chief Executive at Harmony Home Taiwan, to discuss the work that Harmony Home has done with some of the most marginalised people in Taiwan: people living with HIV/AIDS and undocumented residents and their children. In this chat, Lara and Yi-Fan explore how more than 40 …
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What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro
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52:18If you want to know about what’s to come on the border—what to expect, how it got to this point, and ways to fight back—put everything down right now and give this a listen. Well, here we are at the beginning of 2025, and it’s time to continue preparing ourselves for what’s to come (I hope you all saw Melissa’s Tuesday report on the Border Chronicl…
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Book Chat: Home and Island Writing in "Bubble War" with Kao Yi-feng
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42:14In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited a renown Taiwanese sci-fi writer, Kao Yi-feng, to talk about his fictional writings. Yi-feng is known for his way of combining elements of fantasy and magical realism with specific “linguistic features” of Hakka. In our conversation, Yi-feng recounts how his background of living in a Hakka-speaking communi…
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Academic Chat – From Academic Work to Social Impact: A Scholar’s Commitment to Raise Awareness on Migrant Experiences in Taiwan
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51:45In this episode, our host Lara Momesso interviews Dr Isabelle Cockel, an academic based in the UK, to discuss the wider impact of her academic work. Isabelle’s extensive research on marriage and labour migrants in Taiwan has evolved into efforts to raise awareness of migrant issues beyond the academic sphere both in Asia and Europe. She has written…
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Reporter's Notebook: Melissa Talks About a New Binational Investigation on Border Militarization and Drownings in the Rio Grande
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29:13On Sunday, The Washington Post, El Universal in Mexico, and Lighthouse Reports published “Death and Deterrence in the Rio Grande,” a yearlong investigation on drowning deaths of asylum seekers. As the U.S.-Mexico investigations editor for Lighthouse Reports, I helped collect the data, did reporting, and coordinated the binational investigation. We …
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Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
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33:20In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese Queer author, Kevin Chen, to talk about his LGBTQ novel, Ghost Town (Europa Editions, 2022) 鬼地方 and its fever worldwide. In our conversation, Kevin shared with us how he first “come out” as a gay writer in Taiwan in the 90s, and how his writings was influenced by key Taiwanese LGBTQ authors and c…
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In an episode that you’ve surely been waiting for, Melissa and Todd discuss what Trump’s election might mean for the border. This includes addressing the question, What is a “border czar”? The Donald Trump campaign seemed to know, spending the last several months claiming (falsely) that Kamala Harris had held this somewhat imaginary position under …
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No Borders as a Practical Political Project: A Podcast with Nandita Sharma
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46:23As the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano put it in his book Upside Down: A Primer for a Looking Glass World, the terminology used in mainstream political discourse often describes precisely the opposite of reality. Cut-throat capitalism is free trade. Violence is law and order. Extraction of natural wealth from communities is increasing revenue…
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Book Chat: Home, Folk Religion and Indigeneity in “Zebra Finch Rain" 斑雀雨”and "New Gods" 新神 單車失竊記,
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40:57In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese author, Chiou Charng-ting, to talk about her novel writing, which blends in elements of religious folklore and indigenous mythologies. In our conversation, Charng-ting told us how her hometown, Taitung, inspired her with its amazing sceneries and cultural landscapes. She further shared with us ho…
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"We Be Gullah": A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Berry
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37:04On this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, guest Dr. Jessica Berry shares a bit on the significance of the Gullah Geechee language for her personally and professionally. She shares experiences about her upbringing, the unspoken rule of code-switching inside and outside the Gullah community, and the challenges she faced in a predomi…
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What does the future hold for sanctuary in this country? With a renewed anti-immigrant movement taking center stage in American politics, can sanctuary activists articulate a different vision for the country, one that demands that people of all faith and political persuasions ‘welcome the stranger’? In this episode, Barba and González investigate h…
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What does the future hold for sanctuary in this country? With a renewed anti-immigrant movement taking center stage in American politics, can sanctuary activists articulate a different vision for the country, one that demands that people of all faith and political persuasions ‘welcome the stranger’? In this episode, Barba and González investigate h…
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Ep. 6 Part II: Sanctuary in the Pews and in the Streets
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41:39“Build the wall! Build the wall!” How about building sanctuaries instead? The 2016 election of Donald Trump shook the nation. But in the days following his unprecedented victory, sanctuary organizers got to work, not waiting until Trump stepped foot in the White House to develop the networks necessary to protect immigrant communities. In this episo…
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Ep. 6 Part I: Sanctuary in the Pews and in the Streets
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35:14“Build the wall! Build the wall!” How about building sanctuaries instead? The 2016 election of Donald Trump shook the nation. But in the days following his unprecedented victory, sanctuary organizers got to work, not waiting until Trump stepped foot in the White House to develop the networks necessary to protect immigrant communities. In this episo…
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A Special Border Chronicle Election Podcast
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47:30It’s democracy vs. fascism in the most consequential election of our lifetime. We talk about its implications for border communities. Also, Todd talks about his latest reporting from Mexico, where migrants are continually being sent back to the country’s southern border, creating a cycle of futility and suffering. Melissa recalls reporting on Trump…
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Ep. 5 Part II: The New Sanctuary Movement
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39:22An immigrant…or a terrorist? In a post September 11th world, undocumented residents in the United States faced the specter of deportation after being labeled a threat to national security. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising and legislation threatening to criminalize immigrants pending at the national and state level, faith activists again turned …
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Ep. 5 Part I: An Immigrant or a Terrorist?
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34:05An immigrant…or a terrorist? In a post September 11th world, undocumented residents in the United States faced the specter of deportation after being labeled a threat to national security. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising and legislation threatening to criminalize immigrants pending at the national and state level, faith activists again turned …
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In July 2024, the Intersectionality in the American South Collective had the privilege of visiting the McLeod Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. In this episode, Dr. Katie Acosta speaks with one of the site's preservationists, Reverend Toby Smith, about McLeod's history, the opening of this historic site to the general public, and the intent…
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Spies in the pews? Criminal informants at Bible study? By the mid 1980s, sanctuary organizers were in the federal government’s crosshairs. The movement was growing, and its publicity-friendly protests were embarrassing the Reagan administration as it ramped up its military intervention in Central America. Facing pressure from a coalition of religio…
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Sanctuary-mania? Perhaps that’s a stretch, but by the mid-1980s, thousands of Americans had pledged their support for a faith-based movement to offer safe harbor to Central American asylum seekers, even if it meant they might have to go to jail. In episode three, Barba and González delve into the dramatically rapid growth of the sanctuary movement …
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A Live Podcast from Nogales with Educators Celia Concannon and Gustavo Lozano
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1:37:55On September 7, we had the honor of leading a discussion with Celia Concannon and Gustavo Lozano, two longtime residents and educators from ambos Nogales, who have spent years teaching music and theater in local schools. We then had a Q&A with audience members, which you’ll hear at the end. The event was held downtown in Nogales, Arizona, on Morley…
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The Expanding Immigrant Detention Nexus: A Podcast with Jesse Franzblau
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49:20Immigrant detention has doubled during Biden, which now wants to expand it more. But not if rights groups can help it, explains the senior policy analyst for the National Immigrant Justice Center. Since Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, there have been alarming trends in detentions and deportations undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enfo…
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Episode 2: Gunfire, Death Squads, and the Origins of Sanctuary
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54:15The memories of gunfire and death squads were never far from their minds. The unforgiving desert heat, however, was their primary concern. Who could Central American asylum seekers turn to when they arrived at the US-Mexico border, seeking refuge but finding none from the American government? In episode 2, Barba and González uncover the roots of th…
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When Migrants who are Undocumented are Detained
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45:32Did you know that there are 6 Detention facilities in the state of Georgia used to house undocumented migrants and asylees? On this episode of Intersectionality in the American South, we hear from Mr. Amilcar Valencia Executive Director of El Refugio a non profit organization that advocates on the behalf of the detained and their families. Interest…
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What if we told you that one of the biggest movements to protect migrants in the history of the United States was led by people of faith? What if there was a movement that has been cultivated within religious spaces, dedicated to a radical hospitality - to live out the Gospel by welcoming the stranger? In this first episode, Dr. Lloyd Barba and Dr.…
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The Highest Law in the Land: Journalist Jessica Pishko on Right-wing Sheriffs and Democracy
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44:16For several years, author and journalist Jessica Pishko has investigated the power of right-wing sheriffs and their impact on democracy, elections, and border and immigration policy. Her new book, out this month, The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy, is a must-read, especially during our most conseque…
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From Green Beret to Border Human Rights Activist: A Podcast with Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero
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57:35Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson’s story gives us a compelling, personal, and geopolitical glimpse into the borderlands across a history of militarization, resistance, and transformation. How does one go from a U.S. Special Forces Green Beret in El Salvador to doing humanitarian aid work on the border? This is where Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson begins this…
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Beyond 'El Mayo' and Drug Cartels: A Podcast with Journalist Luis Chaparro
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57:03Luis Chaparro is a longtime border journalist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He specializes in reporting on criminal organizations, corruption, and binational affairs. He’s written for many publications in Mexico and the United States. And he’s one of the only journalists in the borderlands who consistently reports on and analyzes organized crime in M…
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