NNIRR Co-Director Alma Maquitico on KPFA: Biden Administration & Immigration

Alma Maquitico speaks with KPFA radio host Brian Edwards-Tiekert: “What the Biden Administration can do now: Immigration and the refugee crisis”

12 minute segment can be found at min. 48:25 through 1:00:45

KPFA Up Front November 11, 2020

Full Program breakdown here:

0:08 – Trump’s legal challenges, contesting the election; plus the Trump Administrations challenge of the Affordable Care Act in Supreme Court

Erwin Chemerinsky is a constitutional law scholar and dean of Berkeley Law.

0:34 – What the Biden Administration can do now: Healthcare

Anthony Wright (@aewright)  is Executive Director of Health Access California, a health consumer advocacy coalition.

0:50 – What the Biden Administration can do now: Immigration and the refugee crisis

Alma Maquitico is co-director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (@NNIRRnetwork).

1:08 – What the Biden Administration can do now: Big Tech, monopolies and anti-trust action

Sally Hubbard (@Sally_Hubbard) is Director of Enforcement Strategy at the Open Markets Institute, and author of Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control.

1:34 – What the Biden Administration can do now: Climate Action

Sunny Singhal is the Campus Corps Coach for the Sunrise Movement. In this role, he works with organizing on college campuses for a Green New Deal to address the related crisis of income inequality, racial injustice, and the climate crisis.

1:47 – California elected profile: Alex Lee (@VoteAlexLee2020) is the newly elected California State Assemblymember representing District 25 in the South Bay, including Fremont, Santa Clara, San Jose, Milpitas, and Newark.