Episodios

  • Criminalized by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Families, Not Crime Rates

    Criminalized by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Families, Not Crime Rates
    May 23 2025
    “Criminalized by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Families, Not Crime Rates”
    Immigration Congressional Policy Brief May 21, 2025
    Dirksen Senate Office Building

    1) Charis Kubrin, UCI Criminology, Law & Society, “The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant: How Policy Based on Fear Fails Us All”
    Immigration-related policies founded on an assumption of widespread immigrant criminality or claims of a strong immigration-crime link are likely to be ineffective at reducing crime, and can lead to significant collateral consequences for individuals, families and communities.

    2) Irene Vega, UCI Sociology, “Who Enforces, and Why? Rethinking Immigration Agents, Training, and Oversight”
    The major lesson of my work is that we need major structural changes in the U.S. immigration system, including: decoupling of immigration and criminal law, divesting from for-profit prisons and other corporations that shape immigration enforcement policy, and a fundamental rethinking of how we hire and train immigration agents.

    3) Beth Baker, UCDC Anthropology, “The Hidden Costs of Mass Deportation”
    Trump is promising to deport millions of people with long-standing ties to US society. The economic costs are enormous: immigration enforcement, detention, and deportation constitute the largest single federal law enforcement cost to the nation. The human costs are even more significant.

    4) Ernesto Castaneda, American University, CLALS, “The Mental Health Toll of Immigration Enforcement”
    Many immigrants face significant trauma in their countries of origin and immigration law enforcement creates new stressors that exacerbate PTSD, depression, and anxiety. These conditions can be minimized through programs that aid immigrant integration and mental health.
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    53 m
  • The Effects of the Latest Immigration Policies - Immigration Realities Podcast S1E5 - May20-2025

    The Effects of the Latest Immigration Policies - Immigration Realities Podcast S1E5 - May20-2025
    May 20 2025
    In this episode, we listen to "Immigration In Focus: Insights from Policy Experts," an event that took place at American University on Thursday, April 24; though the negative effects of punitive immigration policies are always evergreen. This episode pairs well with this blogpost https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/campaigning-against-immigrants-is-often-a-losing-proposition

    Speakers include:
    Amy Dacey, Director, AU’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics

    Jayesh Rathod, Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic in AU’s Washington College of Law Ernesto Castañeda, Director, AU’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Immigration Lab
    Alex Araya, Staff Attorney, Detained Adult Program, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

    Moderate by Julia Manchester from The Hill

    Episode edited by Noah Green
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    55 m
  • Asylum Seekers and New Arrivals in DC and NYC

    Asylum Seekers and New Arrivals in DC and NYC
    Apr 22 2025
    In this podcast, the Immigration Lab researchers discuss some of the results of ongoing research including over 200 in-depth interviews with new arrivals, including immigrants, asylum seekers, people with TPS, parole, and other humanitarian permits in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and New York City from Ecuador, Venezuela, El Salvador, Mexico, and Ukraine.
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    23 m
  • The First 100 Days Immigration Policy 4-9-2025

    The First 100 Days Immigration Policy 4-9-2025
    Apr 9 2025
    This podcast is a recording of a live immigration policy panel that took place at American University on April 4, 2025. The first in a series of 2 podcasts. Interviewer Todd Zwillich, co-host of 1A on WAMU, DC's NPR station. Speakers include Kathleen Bush-Joseph, Migration Policy Institute; Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, American Immigration Council; and Ernesto Castaneda, The Immigration Lab, discuss the immigration policies of the current administration. Co-organized by The Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, The Immigration Lab, the Sine Institute, and the Environment, Development, and Health Department of the School of International Service at American University.
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    1 h y 23 m
  • Rhetoric vs. reality: the migrant "crisis" and the current response

    Rhetoric vs. reality: the migrant "crisis" and the current response
    Mar 10 2025
    Dr. Castañeda, Anthony Sandoval, Joseph Fournier, and Marshall Plane discuss the rhetoric about recent immigration and the Trump administration's current response. Topics include the recent congressional hearing with sanctuary city mayors; how we can counter the criminal steteotype of immigrants; Trump's recent proposals about using the military for deportations; and much more.
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    51 m
  • Unpacking Trump's first month

    Unpacking Trump's first month
    Feb 22 2025
    Dr. Castañeda breaks down Trump's first month executive actions regarding immigration, putting his policies in legal and historical context.

    Marshall Plane talks about his research on the economic integration of asylum seekers in New York City. His findings contradict the narrative that migrants are an economic burden on the city.

    Katheryn Olmos talks us about the use of Guantanomo Bay to detain immigrants, including the stories of people who have been taken there without due process. She describes how this climate is impacting Latino communities in her native Florida.

    Joseph Fournier talks about his current study of anti-immigrant rhetoric in close congressional races. Contrary to what many pundits say, Joseph's figures indicate that candidates who adopt this rhetoric have actually had lower success rates in recent cycles.
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    36 m
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