Temporary Protection, Permanent Precarity
The human consequences of terminating TPS
In August, The Wall Street Journal reported that in South Florida several home health care agencies were closing, “nursing homes are scrambling to fill vacant positions and restaurants are scaling back operating hours. Hotels, retailers, airport contractors and small businesses are also grappling with new staffing shortages.” Meanwhile, in neighborhoods such as New ...
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The Queer Tendency of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
An interview with author Lana Lin on reimagining Gertrude Stein’s modernist landmark
Upon its publication in 1933, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas launched author Gertrude Stein into commercial success and placed her as a crucial figure of modernism. Under the guise of an "autobiography," Stein wrote about herself and the Paris salon scene through the voice of her lifelong partner, Alice ...
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Coming to America, Then and Now
Season 2, Episode 7
With guests Erika Lee and Muzaffar A. Chishti and cohost Amanda Frost.
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Three Years After Roxham, Canada Still Scapegoats US Immigration Law
The irregular border crossing is a metonym for the complications of Canada’s changing immigration policies
On September 25, 2023, about 30 miles southeast of Montreal, a lime-green excavator advanced like a centipede over concrete and gravel. Its claw-like appendage tore at the gable roof of a long white rectangular building. The structure’s walls folded inward under the pressure, and the ghost of a dark blue ...
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Supreme Court
Season 2, Episode 6
This episode looks at two cases that the Supreme Court heard in March and April of this year: Noem v. Al Otro Lado and Trump v. Barbara. They’re significant cases that address very different aspects of immigration and citizenship.
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Immigration Detention
Season 2, Episode 5
Guests Mekela A. Goehring (Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network) and Laura P. Lunn (Director of Advocacy & Litigation, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network) join the Unsettled hosts in a conversation about immigration detention in the second Trump administration. The administration has been greatly expanding detention facilities by buying ...
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Against Innocence
Unravelling the myth of the depoliticized child
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In my early twenties, I was captivated by the idea that creative processes can return us to the boundless dreamscapes of our childhood. Only back then, I thought, could we afford to experience the world somatically. Not yet captured by social conventions, our bodies had the potential to become everything. ...
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Rights in the Era of ICE Raids
Season 2, Episode 4
In this episode, guest Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, joins the Unsettled hosts in discussing immigration enforcement in the United States from the perspective of civil liberties, assessing the broader implications of contemporary enforcement practices for constitutional rights and the rule of law.
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“I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.”
Season 2: Episode 3
Please note: This episode begins with a discussion of the events in Minneapolis, but was recorded prior to the January 24, 2026, shooting of Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis, MN.
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The Moral Right to Defend Yourself Against ICE
If constitutional constraints are real limits on government power, their violation must sometimes justify the same defensive responses that other rights violations justify
If you saw an armed stranger in body armor forcing his way into your neighbor's home at dawn, dragging a screaming mother away from her children while pointing a rifle at the family, would you have the right to stop him? By any means necessary?
Now the forbidden version: What if ...
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One Battle After Another
With ICE in Minneapolis: An eyewitness account
On Tuesday morning, January 13, I was driving home after dropping my 9-year-old son off at school. There were ICE vehicles everywhere, I was surrounded by them on Park Ave.
After a block or two of this, I parked and got out of my car. I saw that there were many ...
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