The “Remain in Mexico” policy was sold as a humane way to throttle the flow of migrant families seeking asylum in the U.S. But the immigration courts remain overwhelmed, and migrants who do make the trip to the southern border have been left to wait for months -- sometimes upwards of a year -- in squalid, makeshift refugee camps in Mexico.
Guest: Adolfo Flores, immigration reporter for BuzzFeed.
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In which we examine the broadcast-jamming fad of the 1980s, including a puzzling incident involving a masked Chicago prankster, and Ken wants to be a font cop. Certificate #29692.
The “Remain in Mexico” policy was sold as a humane way to throttle the flow of migrant families seeking asylum in the U.S. But the immigration courts remain overwhelmed, and migrants who do make the trip to the southern border have been left to wait for months -- sometimes upwards of a year -- in squalid, makeshift refugee camps in Mexico.
Guest: Adolfo Flores, immigration reporter for BuzzFeed.
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In 2013, Robert Chelsea was hit by a drunk driver and sustained third-degree burns on more than half of his body. Nearly six years later, he became the first African American recipient of a full face transplant. We talk with Chelsea and Jamie Ducharme, a Time staff writer who followed his journey, about the procedure and how his story could help encourage organ donation by African Americans. Follow Maddie on Twitter @maddie_sofia. And email the show at shortwave@npr.org.
In Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era (U New Mexico Press, 2018), Darnella Davis combines the personal with the national in telling the story of allotment in Indian Territory/Oklahoma. Dr. Davis traces her family story back several generations and explores the contested and complicated nature of race in the United States. Her journey through the archives is a personal one, and draws upon a range of sources form family stories and saved documents, to government records and the tangled history of land sales. Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage is about how marriages, births, and lives lived in Oklahoma complicate the story of race in the United States, and describe the histories of Cherokee and Muskogee Creek leaders such as Amos Thornton and the Adams clan, as well as the children of Oklahoma freedmen and women such as John Bowlin. Davis’s story of her kin is a family chronicle, but also a story of how the United States has attempted to put people into ill-fitting boxes based on race. As Davis herself asks, “Do the stories of the Thorntons, Bowlins, Davises, and Adamses tell us that the federal government succeeded in transforming a communal culture into one solely occupied with individual wealth?” Her argument is one that embraces complication and emphasizes how the microcosm of family can encompass a hopeful story of American life.
Stephen Hausmann is an Assistant Professor of US History at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He teaches courses on modern US history, environmental history, and Indigenous history and is currently working on his book manuscript, an environmental history of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But Pelosi isn’t giving up the articles just yet. We discuss what went down yesterday and where we go from here.
We ask the Crooked team about their personal political highlights and lowlights of the past ten years, in a segment we call “Shoutouts and Strikeouts Of The 2010s.”
And in headlines: record heat in Australia, a spine-tingling crypto-mystery, and how to have the best Yang fit.
The news to know for Thursday, December 19th, 2019!
We're breaking down what happened and what happens next now that President Trump has officially been impeached, and what to know about tonight's presidential debate.
Plus: a big deal in the auto industry, why big tech companies are teaming up, and the research that may surprise you about blue light before bed...
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview about the best and most popular 'good news' stories of 2019! Branden Harvey from www.GoodGoodGood.co joins me to share three positive news stories and explain why we don't always get enough of it...
This week on the Patreon, Rivers takes a trip to the record store's $1 bin with comedians Joe Raines and Joe Kaye for the third installation in our "Bargain Bin" series! We found some TRUE crap and this episode is positively delightful. Sign up for the Patreon now and get an extra episode every week and MORE! for only $5 a month! http://www.Patreon.com/TheGoodsPod
This week on the Patreon, Rivers takes a trip to the record store's $1 bin with comedians Joe Raines and Joe Kaye for the third installation in our "Bargain Bin" series! We found some TRUE crap and this episode is positively delightful. Sign up for the Patreon now and get an extra episode every week and MORE! for only $5 a month! http://www.Patreon.com/TheGoodsPod
