Belabored Podcast #201: Trump’s Latest Migration Outrage
Trump’s recent proclamation temporarily bans guestworkers from coming to the United States, but what does it actually do? Daniel Costa of the Economic Policy Institute explains.
Winter 2025
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Belabored Stories: Immigration Courts Are Still Open
Detained migrants face crowded, confined conditions with remarkably limited access to healthcare, health protections, and safety precautions.
Year One of AMLO’s Mexico
When AMLO took office there was a sense of hope, enthusiasm, and renewal. Today, there is a growing sense of unease about whether his administration can deliver the changes that Mexicans so desperately need.
Why We Need a Working-Class Media
What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?
Unhealthy Boundaries
A neoliberal vision of public health and anti-immigrant politics have turned healthcare into a border zone.
In Uno, Plures: How New Yorkers Fought Fascism in the 1930s
While nativists used economic depression and global conflict to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment, a movement emerged in New York City’s liberal and left-wing circles to combat racism and forge connections between ethnic groups.
Survivors against Concentration Camps
Can Nazi concentration camps be compared to other detention centers? Their survivors thought so.
Immigrants Didn’t Kill Your Union
Immigration didn’t cause the economic restructuring that began in the 1970s, or the inequality and labor degradation that came with it.
America Through Nazi Eyes
The most radical Nazis were the most aggressive champions of U.S. law. Where they found the U.S. example lacking, it was because they thought it was too harsh.
Stopping the Deportation Machine
The Stansted 15 faced heavy charges for preventing a flight from deporting migrants from the UK. They avoided jail time, but the practices they protested are still in place.
Where the Caravan Stopped
Thousands of asylum seekers living in shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border face an uncertain future. Thousands more are heading north. A report from Tijuana.
How Liberalism Failed
After decades of relative stability, Western elites forgot how precious and precarious liberal democracy really is.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
“We didn’t expect the amount of chaos”: A Dispatch from the Border
“Traumatized, triggered, shocked.” An immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha movement describes the feeling among Central American migrants at the San Diego-Tijuana crossing.
Hate Was Not a Winning Ticket
Contrary to Trumpian fantasy, noncitizens didn’t get a direct say in the midterms. But their voices still mattered on Election Day.
