Today’s show focuses on the status of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. To analyze this issue our host Jorge Gestoso interviews Marielena Hincapié, the Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center. She begins by saying that the measures announced by Obama last November are the most significant immigration policy changes in over two or three decades and would give over five million immigrants protection from deportation and allow them to go to school and work lawfully. Yet some of the most important reforms are in legal limbo due to a lawsuit filed against the administration. Gestoso and Hincapié discuss the strategies of anti-immigrant politicians, the reason that the Republican Party is against the changes decreed by Obama, the white supremacy displayed in the judicial system and the society as a whole, some contradictory policies of Obama, the harsh living conditions that immigrants endure, media misconceptions regarding immigrants, excessive spending on border security, the way in which United States policies such as fair trade agreements have led to an increase in undocumented workers, and the strategies of immigrant action groups. teleSUR
