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ITT EXTRA: The Trumpocalypse

ITT EXTRA: The Trumpocalypse

FromIn The Thick


ITT EXTRA: The Trumpocalypse

FromIn The Thick

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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Aug 3, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported that a migrant toddler died shortly after being released from an ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas. There are 11,000 kids are living in these detention facilities across the country. Maria and Julio talk with immigration attorney, Amy Maldonado about the immigration detention centers and what she calls our immigration "kangaroo courts."    Want more?



The Intercept's story on the two Brazilian boys represented by Amy Maldonado.
The next battlefield at the border is in asylum interview rooms, according to Vox.

Data shows that parents were targeted by Trump's policy (from Buzzfeed news).
Read about the genealogist that Amy mentions who is tracking Republicans' immigrant genealogy, what she calls resistance genealogy. 
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Released:
Aug 3, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Journalists tell you what you’re missing from the mainstream news. Co-hosted by award-winning journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela, IN THE THICK has the conversations about race, identity and politics few people are discussing or want to discuss.