Immigration Today!
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJoin Clark Hill’s Angeline Chen, a leading immigration attorney, in discussing the impacts of US immigration law and policy. On Immigration Today, Angeline interviews leaders, experts, advocates and volunteers in immigration and immigrant rights on the issues, their experiences and their advice on how YOU can make a difference.
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37. Efrén C. Olivares, Immigration Attorney and Author of My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines
March 26, 2024 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBOn the 37th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Efrén C. Olivares, Director of Strategic Litigation at The Southern Poverty Law Center. Olivares is a civil rights lawyer who has represented clients before federal courts and international human rights bodies for over a decade. His work focuses on ending immigrant detention and providing pro bono legal representation to detained immigrants at immigration detention centers in the deep South. Efrén and his team also defend wor...
36. Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy and how RAICES Showed Up – Faisal Al-Juburi, Chief External Affairs Officer for RAICES
February 14, 2024 20:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBOn the 36th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Faisal Al-Juburi. Faisal is a strategic partnerships specialist with more than a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. He currently serves as the Chief External Affairs Officer for RAICES, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency founded in 1986, and the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas. Faisal is the son of Iraqi immigrant parents. He was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Little Rock and D.C. His parents taug...
Giving for Good: A Conversation with Eliza Brennan, Senior Program Officer, Education & Migration at International Community Foundation (ICF)
January 22, 2024 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBOn the 35th episode of Immigration Today!, Angeline Chen welcomes Eliza Brennan, Senior Program Officer for Education and Migration at International Community Foundation (ICF). ICF is the nonprofit foundation of choice for U.S. donors who are passionate about protecting the environment and improving the quality of life in Baja California, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Eliza has been passionate about international work from a young age as her parents always fostered a life of community...
35. Giving for Good: A Conversation with Eliza Brennan, Senior Program Officer, Education & Migration at International Community Foundation (ICF)
January 22, 2024 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBOn the 35th episode of Immigration Today!, Angeline Chen welcomes Eliza Brennan, Senior Program Officer for Education and Migration at International Community Foundation (ICF). ICF is the nonprofit foundation of choice for U.S. donors who are passionate about protecting the environment and improving the quality of life in Baja California, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Eliza has been passionate about international work from a young age as her parents always fostered a life of community...
34. Why are Migrants Being Dropped off in Buses? An Interview with ED of CHIRLA Angelica Salas
November 27, 2023 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBBuses transporting asylum seekers have been arriving to Los Angeles for months. Non-profit organizations such as CHIRLA, ImmDef, CARECEN, Haitian Bridge Alliance among many others have quickly reacted and are attending to this emergency. On episode 34 of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Angelica Salas, the ED of The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) who gives us more details on this subject. Angelica Salas joined us on Immigration Today! in early 2021 where she spo...
33. Discussing Professor Hing’s Book, Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System
October 23, 2023 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBOn the 33rd episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Professor Bill Ong Hing. Bill Ong Hing is Professor of Law and Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco, and Professor of Law and Asian American Studies Emeritus, at UC Davis. Previously on the law faculties at Stanford University and Golden Gate University, he founded the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco and directs their Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic. Professor Hing teaches Immigration...
32. Immigration is a Black Issue! – Patrice Lawrence from UndocuBlack Network
July 19, 2023 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBOn the 32nd episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Patrice Lawrence from the UndocuBlack Network. Black immigrants are often prone to higher rates of detention and deportation, have less access to legal representation, and are likely to be forgotten in the narrative of immigration in general. When entire communities are invisible in these narratives, they are also left out of conversations surrounding the protection and advocacy of their human rights. Listen as Patrice share...
31. Serving and Empowering Domestic Violence Survivors in LA – A Conversation with Carmen McDonald, ED from Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ)
July 05, 2023 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBOn the 31st episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Carmen McDonald. Carmen McDonald is the new Executive Director for Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (LACLJ) as of March 2023. LACLJ was founded in 1973 and has provided legal advocacy to low-income and primarily immigrant and Latino populations in Los Angeles for over 40 years. Their goal is to secure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empower them to create their own futures. Carmen was p...
30. How a Daughter of an Immigrant Family became a Lawyer at the Largest Video Streaming Service in the World - A Conversation with Keya Koul, Business & Legal Affairs Counsel at Netflix
May 31, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBOn the 30th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Keya Koul. Keya Koul is Business & Legal Affairs Counsel at Netflix. She serves as one of the co-leads of the Pro Bono Committee in the LA office and has been with Netflix for nearly four years. Keya currently holds an American Bar Association (ABA) Presidential Appointment to the Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI). Prior to working at Netflix, Keya served as the Director of Career Services at Univers...
29. An Interview with Creators of Documentary Film “Seeking Asylum” – Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott from Honeypot Productions
May 16, 2023 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBOn the 29th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott. They are the co-founders of Honeypot Productions and creators of the film Seeking Asylum. Rae Ceretto is a director and cinematographer, and Kelly Scott is a producer. Honeypot Productions was founded in 2020 and is a female owned and operated production company specializing in documentary and nonfiction storytelling. They foster conversations of understanding, compassion, and growth in our world ...
28. Anyone can be a Victim of Human Trafficking – An Interview with Erika Gonzalez from The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
April 27, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBOn the 28th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Erika Gonzalez. Erika Gonzalez is a Training and Technical Assistance Managing Attorney at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), in Los Angeles CA. Erika is a national expert in legal remedies access for survivors of all forms of human trafficking. She is proud to be the daughter of Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants whose work focuses on approaching the legal representation of trafficking survivors from a trau...
27. Deporting Veterans – Fact or Fiction? – An Interview with Amanda Schuft from Immigrant Defenders Law Center
March 28, 2023 17:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBOn the 27th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Amanda Schuft. Amanda Schuft is the Legal Services Director of Community Defense Programs at Immigrant Defenders Law Center. Immigrant Defenders Law Center is Southern California's largest deportation defense non-profit. They provide full‐scale deportation defense, legal representation, legal education, and connections to social services. Amanda has been a part of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center team for almost 8 years while...
26. How One Person Started a Movement to Heal Skid Row - An Interview with Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission
March 08, 2023 20:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBOn the 26th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Rev. Andrew (Andy) J. Bales, the CEO of Union Rescue Mission. Union Rescue Mission (URM) is one of the largest missions of its kind — bringing help and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness in Downtown Los Angeles. URM is an organization that was founded in 1891 which dedicates itself to helping men, women, and children escape the streets of Skid Row through food, shelter, education, counseling, and long-...
25. The Intersection between Reproductive Justice and Immigrant Rights – A Conversation with Juliana Serrano, Vice President of Advocacy & Equity at Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley
January 12, 2023 21:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBOn the 25th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Juliana Serrano from Planned Parenthood. Juliana Serrano is the Vice President of Advocacy & Equity at Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley (PPPSGV). In this role, Juliana works to advance their mission through the strategic implementation of electoral and advocacy activities that promote policies favorable to Planned Parenthood at all levels of government. She creates and leads the vision and strategy for communi...
24. Majoring in Grit – The Real Challenge for an Undocumented Student isn’t the Classwork – An interview with Attorney Jessica Viramontes from CARECEN
December 06, 2022 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBOn the 24th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Jessica Viramontes. Jessica is a proud daughter of Mexican immigrant parents. She taught Ethnic Studies & Global Leadership for 12 years before becoming an Immigration attorney. She's traveled to several countries all over the world meeting with different community groups around the issues of food justice, land rights, migration/refugees, climate justice, mass incarceration, and resistance. She has organized with immigrant comm...
23. The Truth About The U.S. Border Patrol: Jenn Budd, Former Border Patrol Agent Turned Activist and Author of “Against The Wall”
November 11, 2022 20:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBOn the 23rd episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Jenn Budd. Jenn Budd is a former U.S. Border Patrol agent turned immigrant-rights activist. Jenn was a former Senior Patrol agent and Intelligence agent with the U.S. Border Patrol but after many years of witnessing the cruelty and abuse of the agency towards migrants, she decided to denounce her position and speak out against the agency. Jenn is also the author of her memoir Against the Wall – My Journey from Border Patrol Age...
22. How An Undocumented Immigrant Became A U.S. Permanent Resident And Is Using His Story To Make Change–A Conversation With Digital Strategist Juan Escalante
October 27, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBOn the 22nd episode of Immigration Today! Angeline interviews Juan Escalante. Juan Escalante is a formerly undocumented nationally renowned digital strategist and widely recognized immigration advocate. Juan’s immigration story began when his parents fled Venezuela in the year 2000, with Juan and his two brothers, following the election of Hugo Chavez. In 2006, an immigration attorney mishandled the Escalante’s case, which led them to lose their immigration status despite “waiting in line” w...
21. Breaking Anti-immigration Narratives on YouTube – An Interview with Shauna Siggelkow from Define American
September 30, 2022 15:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBOn the 21st episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Shauna Siggelkow. Shauna Siggelkow is an experienced digital content producer and strategist, whose work focuses on the intersection of digital media and social justice. She is the Director of Digital Storytelling at Define American where she develops original research-based content strategies to combat xenophobia online. She is a film producer working in media production, research and advocacy, a former producer for MTV’s Emmy...
20. The Real Economics of Immigration - An Interview with Professor and Author Tara Watson
June 06, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBOn the 20th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Dr. Tara Watson. Tara Watson is an economist who focuses on U.S. social policy, with interests in the safety net, health, and immigration. She is a Professor of Economics at Williams College since 2004, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Resources. In 2015-2016, Watson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the U.S. Treasur...
19. The Different Treatment of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Mexican border – A talk with Ginger Cline from Al Otro Lado
May 05, 2022 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBOn the 19th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Ginger Cline. Ginger is a Staff Attorney Justice Fellow for Al Otro Lado's Tijuana office. Al Otro Lado is a bi-national advocacy and legal aid organization serving migrants, refugees and deportees in the United States and Mexico. Ginger’s focus is on supporting African and Haitian asylum seekers by advocating for their release from detention and assisting with their asylum applications. In addition, she advises individuals fig...
19. The Different Treatment of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Mexican Border – A Talk with Ginger Cline from Al Otro Lado
May 05, 2022 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBOn the 19th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen welcomes Ginger Cline. Ginger is a Staff Attorney Justice Fellow for Al Otro Lado's Tijuana office. Al Otro Lado is a bi-national advocacy and legal aid organization serving migrants, refugees and deportees in the United States and Mexico. Ginger’s focus is on supporting African and Haitian asylum seekers by advocating for their release from detention and assisting with their asylum applications. In addition, she advises individuals fig...
18. Healing at the Border: Discussing the Medical Need at the U.S.-Mexican Border with Laura M. Vargas and Dr. Hannah Janeway from Refugee Health Alliance
April 18, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBOn the 18th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen introduces us to Laura M. Vargas and Dr. Hannah Janeway from Refugee Health Alliance. Refugee Health Alliance is an organization that was established in 2018 in response to the increasing medical need at the US-Mexican border. They aim to provide ethical, holistic, and culturally-sensitive healthcare to vulnerable populations. Laura M. Vargas is one of the founders and co-directors of Refugee Health Alliance. She also works in Neurosur...
17. A Conversation on Anti-Asian Hate and AAPI Activism – Connie Chung Joe, CEO of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles
March 29, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBOn the 17th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Connie Chung Joe, the Chief Executive Officer of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles. They are the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Connie received her BA in Spanish and International Relations from USC and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center. She has worked alongside immigrant communities for many years and is the daughter ...
16. How to Create Real Change by Getting Involved with Local and State Immigration Policies – Shiu-Ming Cheer from the California Immigrant Policy Center
March 02, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBOn the 16th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Shiu-Ming Cheer. Shiu-Ming is the Deputy Director of Programs and Campaigns at the California Immigrant Policy Center. They are a constituent-based, statewide immigrant rights organization that promotes and protects safety, health and public benefits and integration programs for immigrants. They are one of the few organizations that effectively combines legislative and policy advocacy, strategic communications, organizing and...
15. The Battle to End Immigrant Detention with Immigrant Rights Activist Maru-Mora Villalpando
February 11, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBWelcome to the 15th episode of Immigration Today!. In this episode, Angeline Chen interviews Maru Mora-Villalpando. Maru is a long time immigrant activist and the founder of Latino Advocacy, LLC and co-founder of La Resistencia. La Resistencia is a grassroots organization working to end the detention of immigrants and stop deportations. Specifically, their goal is to shut down the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), and to end all detention and deportation in Washington State. Latino Advocacy...
14. How a Dreamer Channels Social Media to Tell Her Story and Create Change - A Conversation with Sara Mora
January 28, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBOn the 14th episode of Immigration Today! we welcome Sara Mora. Sara is a storyteller, digital strategist and activist. She is the founder of Population MIC which is a think tank initiative focused on making storytelling tools accessible. Population MIC is a project that builds bridges between folks doing activist work and creative tools. Sara is dedicated to education equality, language accessibility, storyteller rights and migrant rights. A DACA recipient herself, she has dedicated her you...
13. Empowering Immigrants Through International Cuisine – with Meymuna Hussein-Cattan from Flavors From Afar
December 13, 2021 20:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBOn the 13th episode of Immigration Today! we welcome Meymuna Hussein-Cattan, an executive, entrepreneur, and owner of Flavors From Afar. Flavors From Afar is a black-owned social-enterprise restaurant that brings traditional recipes and global flavors to Los Angeles. Located in Little Ethiopia, Flavors From Afar uniquely highlights chefs who are refugees, indigenous people, and immigrants who make cuisines from around the world. She also focuses on job creation and entrepreneurship. Aside fr...
12. The Dreamer Who Sued the U.S. Government and Won – A Conversation with Dulce Garcia from Border Angels
November 29, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBOn the 12th episode of Immigration Today! we welcome Dulce Garcia, the Executive Director of Border Angels. Border Angels is a nonprofit organization that advocates for human rights at the U.S. Mexican Border. Their work focuses on attempting to reduce the number of fatalities at the border through direct action such as water drops at the desert to help immigrants battling dehydration along their journey into the U.S and direct humanitarian aid. Dulce Garcia was raised in San Diego and is ...
11. U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants – with Guerline Jozef from Haitian Bridge Alliance
November 11, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBOn the 11th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Guerline Jozef, President of Haitian Bridge Alliance. Guerline is a woman on the move with a passion to serve others and promote her beloved Haiti. Haitian Bridge Alliance is a nonprofit community organization that assists thousands of refugees in their journey to America. Their mission is to guide, elevate, and empower Haitian immigrants through advocacy, organizing, outreach, and direct services such as Immigration detentio...
10. Helping Afghan Refugees One List at a Time – with Miry Whitehill from Miry’s List
October 27, 2021 17:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBOn the 10th episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Miry Whitehill, the founder and Executive Director of Miry’s List. Miry’s list is a nonprofit organization in CA dedicated to helping refugee families with resources to resettle in to their new homes in the United States. Miry started Miry's List in July 2016 when a friend introduced her to a family of newly arrived Syrian refugees resettling in Los Angeles with kids the same age as her own. There she realized that refugees ...
9. A discussion on Government Surveillance of U.S. Citizens - with Mohammad Tajsar from ACLU Southern California
October 15, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBOn this episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Mohammad Tajsar, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. Mohammad’s work focuses on national security and counterterrorism policy, with a particular focus on the impacts of U.S. national security law on Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities. Mohammad also works on police misconduct, government surveillance, and protecting individuals’ and organizations’ rights in the digital world. Mohamma...
8. How Music Crosses Borders – with Artist Nancy Sanchez
September 29, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBOn this episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Nancy Sanchez, an award winning singer-song writer. Nancy is known for her interesting variety of styles ranging from jazz, mariachi, regional Mexican music, pop, and much more. Nancy is not your typical artist – she is bilingual, multi-cultural, and a strong advocate of immigrant and women’s rights. Her music is unique because she speaks about social justice, immigrants, and the issues they face, while thriving in often male-dom...
7. The Fate of Unaccompanied Minors Coming to the U.S. – Lindsay Toczylowski from Immigrant Defenders Law Center
September 16, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBOn this episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Lindsay Toczylowski, Executive Director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, an organization founded by a dedicated group of advocates and activists interested in creating an organization on the vanguard of the movement for a public defender system for immigrants facing deportation. They are fighting back every day against the immigration system's campaign of cruelty against migrants at the border with a focus on assisting chi...
The Afghanistan Crisis – How Can You Help? – With Sima Alizadeh from PARS Equality Center
September 02, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBOn this episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Sima Alizadeh, an Iranian-born Senior Immigration Attorney at Pars Equality Center, a nonprofit organization that assists low-income Middle Eastern and South Asian communities of the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with legal and social services. She is a graduate of U.C. Hastings Law School and has been aiding the Afghan community for the last 10 years. She leads the Pars Afghan Support Project which is committed to matching Afghan ...
6. The Afghanistan Crisis – How Can You Help? – With Sima Alizadeh from PARS Equality Center
September 02, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBOn this episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Sima Alizadeh, an Iranian-born Senior Immigration Attorney at Pars Equality Center, a nonprofit organization that assists low-income Middle Eastern and South Asian communities of the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with legal and social services. She is a graduate of U.C. Hastings Law School and has been aiding the Afghan community for the last 10 years. She leads the Pars Afghan Support Project which is committed to matching Afghan ...
6. The Afghanistan Crisis – How Can You Help? – With Sima Alizadeh from PARS Equality Center
September 02, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBOn this episode of Immigration Today! Angeline Chen interviews Sima Alizadeh, an Iranian-born Senior Immigration Attorney at Pars Equality Center, a nonprofit organization that assists low-income Middle Eastern and South Asian communities of the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with legal and social services. She is a graduate of U.C. Hastings Law School and has been aiding the Afghan community for the last 10 years. She leads the Pars Afghan Support Project which is committed to matching Afghan ...
Does U.S. Asylum Law Really Exist? The Reality of Those Living on the Margins of the U.S.-Mexican Border – with Nicole Ramos from Al Otro Lado
August 25, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBOn today’s episode we are pleased to have Nicole Ramos, Director of Al Otro Lado . Al Otro Lado is a binational non-profit organization providing holistic legal and humanitarian support to indigent refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the U.S. and Tijuana through a multidisciplinary, client-centered, harm reduction-based practice. Nicole Ramos fiercely advocates for immigrants at the border by helping asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico who wish to present themselves to immigration autho...
5. Does U.S. Asylum Law Really Exist? The Reality of Those Living on the Margins of the U.S.-Mexican Border – with Nicole Ramos from Al Otro Lado
August 25, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBOn today’s episode we are pleased to have Nicole Ramos, Director of Al Otro Lado . Al Otro Lado is a binational non-profit organization providing holistic legal and humanitarian support to indigent refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the U.S. and Tijuana through a multidisciplinary, client-centered, harm reduction-based practice. Nicole Ramos fiercely advocates for immigrants at the border by helping asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico who wish to present themselves to immigration autho...
Federal Tort Claims Act: What Everyone Should Know – Trina Realmuto from National Immigration Litigation Alliance
August 11, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB“I have gotten to witness firsthand the trauma that it causes to people…all folks that have had abuse in detention. Money helps but money does not take away the trauma that people experience from being subjected to this kind of abuse and misconduct.” On this episode of Immigration Today! meet Trina Realmuto, the Executive Director at the National Immigration Litigation Alliance. With over twenty years of experience in immigration, damages, and transparency litigation in federal courts, Tr...
4. Federal Tort Claims Act: What Everyone Should Know – Trina Realmuto from National Immigration Litigation Alliance
August 11, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB“I have gotten to witness firsthand the trauma that it causes to people…all folks that have had abuse in detention. Money helps but money does not take away the trauma that people experience from being subjected to this kind of abuse and misconduct.” On this episode of Immigration Today! meet Trina Realmuto, the Executive Director at the National Immigration Litigation Alliance. With over twenty years of experience in immigration, damages, and transparency litigation in federal courts, Tr...
3. A Look Inside a Migrant Shelter in TJ, Mexico – Leticia Herrera, Pro Amore Dei
March 30, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB“How can I live so well when a lot of people are suffering? I knew I had to do something to help my people.” On this episode of Immigration Today! with Angeline Chen, meet Leticia Herrera, the owner of a migrant shelter in Tijuana Mexico called Pro Amore DEI that houses asylum seekers. This shelter hosts around 185 people including 60 children. One of the unique qualities of this shelter is that they work with the Yes We Can World Foundation and turned a school bus into a classroom for kid...
3. A Look Inside a Migrant Shelter in TJ, Mexico – Leticia Herrera, Pro Amore Dei
March 30, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB“How can I live so well when a lot of people are suffering? I knew I had to do something to help my people.” On this episode of Immigration Today! with Angeline Chen, meet Leticia Herrera, the owner of a migrant shelter in Tijuana Mexico called Pro Amore DEI that houses asylum seekers. This shelter hosts around 185 people including 60 children. One of the unique qualities of this shelter is that they work with the Yes We Can World Foundation and turned a school bus into a classroom for kid...
2. Highlights of Biden’s Immigration Bill and Will it Pass? – Angelica Salas from CHIRLA
February 19, 2021 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBOn this episode of the Immigration Today! podcast with Angeline Chen, meet Angelica Salas, the Executive Director of the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights also known as CHIRLA. From 1999 to now, she has transformed CHIRLA into one of the nation’s largest and most effective immigrant rights organizations. CHIRLA is a mass membership immigrant-led organization that empowers immigrants and their families to win local, state, and national policies that advance their human, civil, and labor ...
1. What’s Still Happening at the US-Mexico Border - Erika Pinheiro from Al Otro Lado
February 01, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBJoin Clark Hill’s Angeline Chen, a leading immigration attorney, in discussing the impacts of US immigration law and policy. On Immigration Today, Angeline interviews leaders, experts, advocates, and volunteers in immigration and immigrant rights on the issues, their experiences, and their advice on how YOU can make a difference. On this episode, meet Erika Pinheiro, the litigation and policy director for Al Otro Lado, a binational non-profit organization providing legal and humanitarian su...
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