A Year in Immigration | First Anniversary: Dave Bier, Laura D. Francis, Tom Jawetz, Ian Kullgren, and Claudia Cubas
Today is a special episode — we are celebrating the Immigration Nerds podcast’s first anniversary! We started in a tiny room with a few attorneys and a producer,
Read More »Greg Chen | USCIS Deferred Action Changes, Subpar Border Conditions and What Agencies Are Doing About It
This week was filled with news of consecutive restrictive measures taken place within immigration. To make sense of the week and to address what is being done about it,
Read More »Hidetaka Hirota | The Origins of Public Charge
The idea of denying outsiders based upon their likelihood of success in America is an enforcement, that predates immigration law itself. It’s the question of, are you
Read More »BONUS: Dany Bahar | Venezuelan Mass Migration in Face of Civil Unrest
BONUS EPISODE: 4-6 million Venezuelan’s have fled the country to date, nearly 20% of the entire country’s population. Brookings Institution’s Dany Bahar details the
Read More »Dany Bahar | The Economics of Immigration: Innovations Driven by the Immigrant Mind
David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Dany Bahar, from Brookings Institution, joins Immigration Nerds. How do you quantify the economic value of cultural knowledge? The ability to
Read More »Who is Boris Johnson? Deal or No Deal
Who is the man now charged with carrying the weight of an entire country, and holding the keys to its destiny. A man of the people? Or a product of the institution? Legal
Read More »A Week in Immigration: HR 1044, Trump’s Asylum Plan and Congress Hearing on Processing Delays
Storm Estep, Senior Attorney for Erickson immigration group joins the podcast. Over the past several weeks we have been bombarded with Immigration updates and news, and
Read More »Volunteering at the Border: Life and Stories of Unaccompanied Minors
Today we are joined by Taylor Gibson, Law Clerk for Erickson Immigration Group. We discuss her week as a volunteer working with unaccompanied minors at the border. Through
Read More »Megan Essaheb | How to Influence Immigration Legislation and Advocacy in Congress
Director of Immigration Advocacy at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Megan Essaheb, joins the podcast. We talk about how new immigration policies are introduced and
Read More »Marcelo Barros | U.S. Job Seeking Strategies for International Students
Today we are joined by Marcelo Barros, international student career expert, and founder of the International Advantage. International advantage’s mission is to help
Read More »Rachel Levitan | No Refugee Left Behind
Rachel Levitan, Vice President of International Programs for HIAS joins the podcast. HIAS has over 130 years worth of experience in providing health and safety services for
Read More »Census 2020: Could an Entire Country Be Gerrymandered?
Jeremy Dumetz, Attorney for Erickson Immigration joins. We discuss the 2020 Census and the potential of adding a citizenship question to the
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