Week 1: Immigration

Trump Says He Wants To Go "Tougher" On Immigration; Shakes Up DHS Leadership

NPR — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:12:26 -0700

Podcast: The NPR Politics Podcast (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Trump Says He Wants To Go "Tougher" On Immigration; Shakes Up DHS Leadership
Pub date: 2019-04-09

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The Venn Weekly: In the past few weeks, Trump threatened to shut down the Southern border with Mexico, said he would cut off foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in punishment for migrant caravans, fired Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and pulled his nomination for the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Ron Vitiello, saying he wanted to go in a ‘tougher’ direction. Immigration has, as a result, remained firmly in the headlines. In this podcast, NPR’s political team discuss recent events, the personalities involved, and what they see as Trump’s strategy for winning back the White House in 2020: maintaining control over the media narrative through keeping immigration in the headlines.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving her post, President Trump announced as he continues to focus on restricting border crossings amid a recent surge. This episode: political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, national political correspondent Mara Liasson and political editor Domenico Montanaro. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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How Fox News and Trump Are Melting Our Brains

Vanity Fair — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:12:21 -0700

Podcast: Inside the Hive (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Fox News and Trump Are Melting Our Brains
Pub date: 2019-04-05

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The Venn Weekly: In an era of so much news, how are we meant to engage with the media in a productive way? Do media organizations have a duty to cover the news in a responsible way? These are the sorts of questions that have shaped our thinking as we’ve set up The Venn, and which shape this podcast discussion between former CNN White House Correspondent, Jessica Yellin and Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair, Nick Bilton. Yellin takes issue with the way the political news media operates now: speaking in a tone of perpetual panic and triggering in people a level of outrage she says is unsustainable. Across the ideological board, the media is failing to be judicious with people’s emotions and distorting the way we judge political events as a result, she argues. Something has to change and Yellin is attempting to lead by example with her own solo media venture. We at The Venn think so too, and intend for our newsletter to be an antidote to the ‘IV drip of chaos’ served up by so many current news sources.

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Has Donald Trump broken our minds, and is it possible to tune him out? Longtime White House correspondent Jessica Yellin joins Nick to discuss the 2020 horse race, why so much of the media sucks (on both sides), and how our collective obsession with Trump has destroyed our ability to make sense of what matters.

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General Chapman’s Last Stand

Pushkin Industries — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:11:46 -0700

Podcast: Revisionist History (LS 86 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: General Chapman’s Last Stand
Pub date: 2018-06-14

Notes from Week 1: Immigration:

The Venn Deep Dive. Podcast 1: In 1973 General Chapman, former U.S. Marine Corps General who served as the 24th Commandant of the Marine Corps, was appointed the commissioner of what was then referred to as the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS), the agency in charge of securing the United States’ borders. He transformed the agency, which he believed had taken a relaxed an approach to the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. “When Chapman took over the INS, the cost of crossing the Mexican border was effectively zero. By the time he left in 1977, it was not.” In this episode, historian Malcolm Gladwell examines the impact General Chapman had on America's border policy, and the effects this has yielded on immigration patterns since.

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Good fences make good neighbors. Or maybe not.

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Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line

WNYC Studios — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:11:30 -0700

Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line
Pub date: 2018-04-06

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The Venn Deep Dive. Podcast 2: In the late 90s there was a dramatic rise in the number of migrant deaths recorded in the Arizona desert. These numbers have remained high since. In RadioLabs Border Trilogy series Anthropologist, Jason De Leon, traces this sudden spike in cross-border deaths to a policy referred to as “Prevention Through Deterrence”, implemented in 1994. The policy set out to deter migrants from crossing the US border by disrupting their traditional, urban crossing points and pushing them towards areas that were much tougher to traverse - deserts, rivers and other such extreme environments. In this episode, which forms part two of the series, we learn how Chief Silvestre Reyes of the El Paso border patrol became the chief architect of the strategy that was to reshape how America guarded its U.S.-Mexico Border.

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Border Trilogy

While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United States, anthropologist Jason De León happened upon something he didn't expect to get left behind: a human arm, stripped of flesh.

This macabre discovery sent him reeling, needing to know what exactly happened to the body, and how many migrants die that way in the wilderness. In researching border-crosser deaths in the Arizona desert, he noticed something surprising. Sometime in the late-1990s, the number of migrant deaths shot up dramatically and have stayed high since. Jason traced this increase to a Border Patrol policy still in effect, called “Prevention Through Deterrence.”

Over three episodes, Radiolab will investigate this policy, its surprising origins, and the people whose lives were changed forever because of it.

Part 2: Hold the Line

After the showdown in court with Bowie High School, Border Patrol brings in a fresh face to head its dysfunctional El Paso Sector: Silvestre Reyes. The first Mexican-American to ever hold the position, Reyes knows something needs to change and has an idea how to do it. One Saturday night at midnight, with the element of surprise on his side, Reyes unveils ... Operation Blockade. It wins widespread support for the Border Patrol in El Paso, but sparks major protests across the Rio Grande. Soon after, he gets a phone call that catapults his little experiment onto the national stage, where it works so well that it diverts migrant crossing patterns along the entire U.S.-Mexico Border.

Years later, in the Arizona desert, anthropologist Jason de León realizes that in order to accurately gauge how many migrants die crossing the desert, he must first understand how human bodies decompose in such an extreme environment. He sets up a macabre experiment, and what he finds is more drastic than anything he could have expected.

This episode was reported by Latif Nasser and Tracie Hunte, and was produced by Matt Kielty, Bethel Habte and Latif Nasser.

Special thanks to Sherrie Kossoudji at the University of Michigan, Lynn M. Morgan, Cheryl Howard, Andrew Hansen, William Sabol, Donald B. White, Daniel Martinez, Michelle Mittelstadt at the Migration Policy Institute, Former Executive Assistant to the El Paso Mayor Mark Smith, Retired Assistant Border Patrol Sector Chief Clyde Benzenhoefer, Paul Anderson, Eric Robledo, Maggie Southard Gladstone and Kate Hall.

Jason de Leon's latest work is a global participatory art project called Hostile Terrain 94, which will be exhibited at over 70 different locations around the world in 2020. Read more about it here.

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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this piece incorrectly stated that Silvestre Reyes's brother died in a car accident in 1968; it was actually his father who died in the accident. We also omitted a detail about the 1997 GAO report that we quote, namely that it predicted that as deaths in the mountains and deserts might rise, deaths in other areas might also fall. The audio has been adjusted accordingly.

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What a Border Sheriff Thinks About the Wall

The New York Times — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:11:10 -0700

Podcast: The Daily (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: What a Border Sheriff Thinks About the Wall
Pub date: 2019-01-11

Notes from Week 1: Immigration:

The Venn Deep Dive. Podcast 3: “Having been in this valley for thirty one years I've heard Democratic administrations, Republican administrations one after another say they're going to address this problem… that we're going to fix the immigration system, we're going to secure the border. And three decades later, here we are. My fear is that you'll be talking to some Sheriff thirty years from now who will be saying: 'I wish we could address this problem.'" In our final instalment of this week’s deep dive into US border policy, we take you back to an interview recorded during the recent Government shutdown. Mark Napier is the Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, who oversees patrolling of the longest stretch of the U.S./ Mexico border. During this interview, Napier reflects on how productive action around immigration has been immobilized by its politicization, as it has been reduced to an issue around which Democrats and Republicans remain locked in perpetual battle.

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A majority of Americans oppose the construction of a border wall. President Trump’s insistence on building it has led to a bitter political impasse and a government shutdown. We spoke with a sheriff on the border who supports the president’s efforts. Guest: Mark Napier, the sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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