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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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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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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H-1B Visas
Season 2: Episode 2
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
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 ...
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What of the “Homeless, Tempest Tost”?
Episode 6
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
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
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
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, ...
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