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Immigration Detention

Season 2, Episode 5

March 27, 2026 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Hiroshi Motomura

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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Rights in the Era of ICE Raids

Season 2, Episode 4

February 26, 2026 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Hiroshi Motomura

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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H-1B Visas

Season 2: Episode 2

January 20, 2026 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

David J. Bier, Director of Immigration Studies and the Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at the Cato Institute, joins Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M. Rodriguez to discuss the implications of 2025 Executive Order on H-1B visas, what might be motivating that Executive Order, and the ins and outs of ...

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The Trump Administration’s War on Venezuelan Migrants

Season 2: Episode 1

October 24, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses his recent article “Enemies of the State: How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the US.” In telling the story of a Venezuelan couple living in Chicago, one of whom was sent to CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador, and one ...

The Trump Administration’s War on Venezuelan Migrants

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What of the “Homeless, Tempest Tost”?

Episode 6

May 30, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

This week, our hosts explore the closing of the US refugee resettlement program, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and the asylum process. Our guest speaker is Mark Hetfield, President of HIAS.

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Birthright Citizenship

Episode 4

April 29, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

In Episode 4, Amanda Frost discusses the Trump Administration’s desire to end birthright citizenship.

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The Khalil Case and the Constitution

Episode 2

April 15, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

Join hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez for a conversation with guest Stephen I. Vladeck about the Mahmoud Khalil Case, deportation power, and the Constitution.

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Introducing Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times

Episode 1

April 10, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

In the first episode of Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times, hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez discuss Trump administration policies and actions affecting immigration and migrants and their communities. The show adopts a broad perspective, seeing immigration policies in the context of constitutional law and principles, ...