Latest Bordersecurity Podcast Episodes
Exploring the Crisis of Immigrant Child Labor with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
The Rational Middle - May 10, 2023 18:44 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAaron Reichlin-Melnick, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council, speaks with host Omar Gallaga about the growing challenge of migrant child labor violations in the United States.
Randy Johnson: 40 Years of Policy Change
The Rational Middle - May 03, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRandel Johnson, the former Senior Vice President of the Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits Division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, joins us today. Randy has over four decades of experience in shaping immigration policy, advocating for business interests, and collaborating with policymak...
Ahmed K. Ali: Knowledge is Important
The Rational Middle - April 26, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Ahmed K. Ali is an associate professor of Architecture at Texas A&M. He is also the Director of the Resource-Based Design Research Lab at TAMU. This week, he joins host Loren Steffy to discuss his immigration story, his work in academia, and his observations on immigration in America.
Trying to Find the Middle: Theresa Cardinal Brown
The Rational Middle - April 19, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis week, we are joined once again by Theresa Cardinal Brown. Theresa Cardinal Brown is the Bipartisan Policy Center's Senior Advisor for Immigration and Border Policy. Brown joins host Gregory Kallenberg to discuss how the BPC finds ways to be bipartisan, updates on her work at the BPC, and mo...
David Bier: What Congress Wouldn't Let Me Say
The Rational Middle - April 12, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDavid J. Bier is the associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. He is an expert on legal immigration, border security, and interior enforcement. He recently testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security, on immigration policy issues. He was invited to discuss ho...
Changing the Way We Think About Immigrants: Douglas Hotlz-Eakin
The Rational Middle - April 05, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDouglas Holtz-Eakin is an American economist. He was formerly Director of the Congressional Budget Office and chief economic policy adviser to Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. Holtz-Eakin is the president of the American Action Forum, a conservative policy institute. Douglas j...
Fighting for Their Rights: Ahilan Arulanantham
The Rational Middle - March 29, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAhilan Arulanantham is a human rights lawyer and Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He's also the faculty co-director of the school's Center for Immigration Law and Policy. Ahilan has dedicated his career to defending the rights of immigrants, and his work has earned him numerous awards...
Small Steps to Move Immigration Forward: DW Gibson
The Rational Middle - March 22, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDW Gibson is an American journalist, author, radio host, and cultural critic. He is also the author of the 2020 book, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, about the border wall that Former President Trump was building, and its impact on the lives of local residents. DW joins host Loren Steffy to ...
How Foreign-Born STEM Workers Are Making This Country Better: Amy Nice
The Rational Middle - March 15, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAmy Nice is a Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University. She's had a long and storied career in immigration, but most recently spent 18 months at the White House at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she worked on immigration issues primarily f...
The Problems inside Detention Centers: Mary Yanik and Homero López
The Rational Middle - March 08, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe have two guests on the podcast this week! Homero López is the legal director at Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy (ISLA) in Louisiana. ISLA is the primary legal services provider for detention centers across Louisiana. We also have Mary Yanik. Mary is the director of the Tulane Immigran...
What needs to change to help Asylum Seekers: Zachary Manfredi
The Rational Middle - March 01, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsZachary (Zak) Manfredi is the Litigation and Advocacy Director of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP). Zak oversees ASAP’s litigation matters and policy advocacy, and he often represents ASAP in strategic partnerships and coalitions. Zak joins host Chris Lyon to discuss ASAP's work and wha...
There is No America without Immigrants: Dr. Hasia Diner and Dr. Carl Bon Tempo
The Rational Middle - February 22, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDr. Hasia Diner and Dr. Carl Bon Tempo are our guests this week. Dr. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at NYU, and Dr. Bon Tempo is an associate professor at the University at Albany. Their new book, Immigration: An American History, came out last year v...
Then and Now: Immigration Reform with Charles Kamasaki
The Rational Middle - February 15, 2023 14:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCharles Kamasaki is the Senior Cabinet Advisor of UnidosUS, (formerly the National Council of La Raza), the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School. He is also the author of Immigration Reform: The Corpse That W...
Shahid Haque and the Open Borders App
The Rational Middle - February 08, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsShahid Haque is an immigration attorney based out of Helena, Montana. He runs a law firm called Border Crossing Law, and he recently launched an app to automate immigration consultations. The app, named Open Borders, seeks to help those seeking citizenship and other avenues of entering the US by...
Tech Layoffs and the H1-B Visas with Gaurav Khanna
The Rational Middle - February 01, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGaurav Khanna is a respected scholar whose research focuses on development economics, labor economics and applied econometrics. He is an assistant professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at USC San Diego and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. ...
What does Biden's Trip to Mexico Really Mean? with Tony Payan
The Rational Middle - January 25, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTony Payan is the Director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Payan joins host Chris Lyon to discuss Biden's recent trip to Mexico and El Paso, Texas. What does this trip mean for immigration policy, and are the outcomes go...
How Will the New Congress Handle Immigration? With Charles Foster
The Rational Middle - January 18, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCharles Foster is an immigration attorney and chairman of Foster LLP in Houston. His work includes being a Senior Immigration Policy Advisor for George W. Bush, an immigration policy advisor on the 2008 Obama campaign, and many others. His work in immigration law has made him one of the foremost...
What Comes After Title 42 with AILA President Jeremy McKinney
The Rational Middle - January 11, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe end of Title 42 is looming. What comes next? And what exactly is Title 8? Jeremy McKinney is the American Immigration Lawyer Association (AILA) President and an immigration and naturalization lawyer in North Carolina. AILA has recommendations for Congress on how to handle the transition to...
The International Student Experience with Rajika Bhandari
The Rational Middle - December 21, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRajika Bhandari is an international higher education expert, writer and speaker. She came to America, from India, to further her education. Her award-winning Memoir, America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility, came out 2021. Bhandari joins host Chris Lyon to discuss the exper...
Glenn Altschuler and Immigration Misconceptions
The Rational Middle - December 14, 2022 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGlenn Altschuler is an American writer, as well as a professor and administrator at Cornell University. Altshuler joins host Melissa Brannan to discuss his recent op-ed and common misconceptions about immigration in America.
Rational Middle Roundup: 150 Episodes
The Rational Middle - December 07, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHosts Chris Lyon, Loren Steffy and Melissa Brannan join new host Carter Carroll to look back at the first 150 episodes of the podcast. The crew discusses favorite past episodes, recent immigration news, and the future of the podcast.
Marshall Fitz and Title 42 Challenges
The Rational Middle - November 30, 2022 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMarshall Fitz is the Managing Director of Immigration of the Emerson Collective. The Emerson Collective "develop(s) strategies to remove barriers to opportunity, and work with community partners to advance common sense solutions to systemic problems." Marshall joins host Chris Lyon to discuss th...
Douglas Rivlin and Pro-Immigrant Policy Changes
The Rational Middle - November 23, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDouglas Rivlin is the Director of Communication for America’s Voice and America’s Voice Education Fund. The mission of America’s Voice and America’s Voice Education Fund is to build the public support and the political will needed to enact policy changes that secure freedom and opportunity for i...
Mariko Hirose and the Global Refugee Crisis
The Rational Middle - November 17, 2022 03:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMariko Hirose is the U.S. Litigation Director at International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP.) Mariko joins host Loren Steffy to discuss IRAP's work in aiding refugee's worldwide and here in America. They also discuss IRAP's recent letter of recommendation to the US government on how to help ...
Tran Dang and the Hurdles for Bi-National Citizens
The Rational Middle - November 09, 2022 16:09 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTran Dang is the founder and executive director fo the Rhizome Center for Migrants. Their mission is to support and defend forcibly displaced persons and uprooted people at risk around the world. Dang joins host Melissa Brannan to discuss the work of the center, as well as the problems facing bi...
Midterms Vault: Having Productive Conversations About Divisive Topics with Karl Krumm
The Rational Middle - November 02, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn the last of our Midterms Vault Episodes, we revist the first of our Mythbusting series. Consulting psychologist Karl Krumm kicks off the series with a provocative discussion of confirmation bias and other traps to watch out for when trying to talk—productively—about contentious issues.
Midterms Vault: Theresa Cardinal Brown on Solutions for the Undocumented
The Rational Middle - October 26, 2022 16:34 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs we near the midterm elections, we are re-visiting our interview with Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center to discuss why we fear immigrants, particularly undocumented ones, and what the realistic solutions might be.
Midterms Vault: Border Town Police Chief Andy Harvey
The Rational Middle - October 19, 2022 12:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs we near the midterm elections, we are re-visiting our interview with Chief Andy Harvey, Chief of Police in Pharr, Texas, as well as its newly-appointed City Manager, joins Melissa Brannan to discuss some of the components of life in a border town: the blockade at the Pharr-Reynosa Internation...
Angelica Razo and Building Latino Political Power
The Rational Middle - October 12, 2022 20:43 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAngelica Razo is the Texas State Director for Mi Familia Vota, an organization dedicated to building up the political power and representation of Latinos in the United States. Razo joins host Loren Steffy to discuss the recent work of the organization, including a memo calling for Democrats to f...
Eunice Cho and the Rise of ICE Detention Centers
The Rational Middle - October 05, 2022 20:21 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEunice Cho is a staff attorney for the ACLU National Prison Project, a project that is working for prison reform and the rights of prisoners around the country. Cho joins host Melissa Brannan to discuss her work with the National Prison Project, as well as how ICE Detention Centers are growing i...
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