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Tempest Tossed Episode 9

Tempest Tossed Pre-Election Edition: All Trump all the time— a conversation with Roberto Suro, professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California

November 16, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

President Trump has dominated the pre-election news by returning to a theme that probably brought him the Presidency -- immigration. Roberto Suro discusses the politics of the Trump strategy, the failure of an effective response from the Democrats, and how older narratives of immigration may not work for the current ...

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Tempest Tossed Episode 8

Inciting Fear: Trump and the ‘Caravan’–a conversation with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute

November 15, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

According to Donald Trump, a group of several thousand Hondurans fleeing violence and poverty who are on foot and 1000 miles from the US border are a threat to US national security and sovereignty. Who is part of the "caravan"? Why have they left Honduras? What are their prospects for ...

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Is the US a ‘safe country’ for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada

October 24, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Under an agreement signed in 2002, Canada can return asylum-seekers to the US if they have traveled through the US or lived there prior to arriving in Canada. Recent policies north and south of the US-Canadian border pose new challenges to the agreement, as Sean Rehaag, professor at Osgoode Hall ...

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‘Zombie ideas’ on US Immigration: A conversation with Professor Rubén Rumbaut on false ideas that will not die

October 21, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Immigrants commit more crimes? Don't learn English? Hurt the U.S. economy? These are "zombie ideas"—false claims that refuse to die. Professor Rubén Rumbaut sets the record straight.

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Resignation with honor: A conversation with David Martin, former member of the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council

October 19, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Alex Aleinikoff speaks with David Martin on why he resigned from the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council, what he objects to in Trump Administration immigration policies, and what balanced and responsible immigration policy could look like.

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‘César’s Choice’: The conditions and decisions facing reunited immigrant families–a conversation with Prof. Lauren Gilbert

August 24, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Alex Aleinikoff speaks with St.Thomas University of Law, Professor Lauren Gilbert, on the detention of re-united immigrant families and the difficult choices they face: should they return to their home countries together, should the parent return and child stay in the U.S., or should the family remain in ICE detention to pursue ...

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A Call for International Solidarity

On the fight for immigrant and refugee justice

August 16, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

About a month and a half ago I applied for an American tourist visa at the U.S. embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, because I plan on visiting my boyfriend there during fall break. Admittedly, I felt a little resentful of the process. Security guards with guns they weren’t going to use ...

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Tempest Tossed

August 10, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Georgetown Law Professor Marty Lederman on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the travel ban.

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Separated Children, Zero tolerance and the Border, with Denise Gilman

July 27, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Alex Aleinikoff, speaks with Professor Denise Gilman, Director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, about separated children, zero tolerance, and the border.

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A Civics Lesson for Trump and Sessions

Sanctuary Cities and the Trump Administration

April 25, 2018 • by John Lawrence

As if we needed any further reminders of the reckless disregard for law and the Constitution rampant in the Trump Era, a panel of Republican federal judges has forcefully rejected efforts to punish so-called Sanctuary Cities by curtailing federal grant funds. It is a fair barometer to assume that when ...

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Sanctuary Campus

Resistance and Protection Within and Beyond the University

February 2, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

In the days and weeks after the election of Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands of students, faculty, and staff at over 190 schools, colleges, and universities around the country have mobilized to create and sign petitions calling for their respective administrations to declare their campuses sanctuaries. These campaigns aim to ...

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Tempest Tossed Episode 9

Tempest Tossed Pre-Election Edition: All Trump all the time— a conversation with Roberto Suro, professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California

Tempest Tossed Episode 8

Inciting Fear: Trump and the ‘Caravan’–a conversation with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute

Tempest Tossed

Is the US a ‘safe country’ for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada

Tempest Tossed

‘Zombie ideas’ on US Immigration: A conversation with Professor Rubén Rumbaut on false ideas that will not die

Tempest Tossed

Resignation with honor: A conversation with David Martin, former member of the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council

Tempest Tossed

‘César’s Choice’: The conditions and decisions facing reunited immigrant families–a conversation with Prof. Lauren Gilbert

A Call for International Solidarity

On the fight for immigrant and refugee justice

Tempest Tossed

Tempest Tossed

Separated Children, Zero tolerance and the Border, with Denise Gilman

A Civics Lesson for Trump and Sessions

Sanctuary Cities and the Trump Administration

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