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Navigating the subject of immigration can feel overwhelming. This podcast gives you the clarity, guidance, and tools to engage with confidence. Each episode combines expert legal insight, practical advice, and a faith-based approach to help you understand immigration law, navigate complex conversations, and take meaningful steps in your community. Through actionable strategies, and thoughtful guidance rooted in faith, this podcast empowers listeners who care about justice and inclusion to speak confidently, act intentionally, and live out their values with calm and clarity. You’ll gain the ...

In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande, and having worked on asylum cases since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the American immigration system.

Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plants - and Americans feared for their meat supply. But the Midwest is not simply the place where animals are fed corn and then butchered. Native Midwesterner Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent years interviewing Iowans who work in the meatpacking industry, both native-born residents and recent migrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.