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The Border

A Twice-Weekly Feature on The Brian Lehrer Show

Airs every Tuesday and Thursday Summer 2006

WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear from you. Like much of the country, we're talking about immigration and the immigrant experience. Every Tuesday and Thursday this summer, we'll explore some aspect of the immigrant experience from history to politics to immigrants' effect on American culture.

We'd like to hear from you and we're asking you to share favorite photos that tell your immigration story on our flickr group "The Border". Your photos can be political or very personal, but we'd love it if you were particularly creative in the way you title and describe your images. We want everyone to be able to be seen, so please hold your contribution to 5 photos a week.

Theme music: Gregory Isaacs' "The Border"

Join our flickr group "The Border"

Border: Flickr

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 27, 2006

Vincent A. Goldberg ph.D. student and flickr member of the Border series
and
Fabian Mosenson ph.D student and flickr member of the Border series
- on his photographs and coming to America

» The Border main page and Flickr photo project

Where are we now?

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 27, 2006

Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio
- on the national debate surrounding immigration

» The Border main page and Flickr photo project
» NPR

The Border: Women and Immigration

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 25, 2006

Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, author and co-editor with Barbara Ehrenreich, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Granta Books, 2003)
and
Joanne Lin, senior staff attorney at Legal Momentum, a legal advocacy organization
and
Aarti Shahani, co-director and organizer for Families for Freedom, an advocacy organization for immigrants facing deportation
- on the particular issues facing women in the immigration debate

» The Border main page and Flickr photo project
» Professor Hochschild’s page at UC-Berkeley
» Joanne Lin’s bio
» Families For Freedom homepage

The Border: How the Rest of the World Deals with Immigration

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 20, 2006

Hania Zlotnik, director of the United Nations Population Division
- how guest worker programs work in other countries

» The Border main page and Flickr photo project
» UN Population Division

The Border: Employer Power in the Immigration Debate

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 18, 2006

Randal Johnson, vice president for Labor, Immigration and employer benefits at the US Chamber of Commerce, co-chair of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition
and
Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive, economic think tank, author of, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (Berrett-Koehler, 2006)
- the role of the employer on the proposal for a guest worker program and earned legalization

» The Border main page and Flickr photo project
» US Chamber of Commerce
» EWIC (Essential Worker Immigration Coalition)
» Economic Policy Institute

The Border, Part 12: The Fence

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 13, 2006

Tom Tancredo, US Represenative (R-CO), chairman of the 101-member bipartisan House Immigration Reform Caucus
- makes the case for a fence along the US-Mexico border

» Tom Tancredo (U.S. House of Representatives)
» The Border main page

A Snapshot of Immigrants

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 11, 2006

Claudia Giordano, posted photos to "The Border" Flickr group, public school teacher at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx
and
Clay Williams, also posted photos on "The Border"
- describe their photos detailing their view of the immigrant experience in New York

» The Border main page at WNYC
» The Border Flickr page

The Border: Assimilation Yesterday and Today

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 06, 2006

Linda Chavez, chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a think tank whose stated goal is to "counter the divisive impact of race conscious public policies"
and
Annetta Seecharran, executive director of South Asian Youth Action! (SAYA!) which "provides South Asian youth with safe spaces"
- how today's immigrants view pressures to conforming to American culture

» Center for Equal Opportunity
» SAYA!

The Border: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 04, 2006

Joseph Salvo, director of the Population Division at the Department of City Planning
and
Muzaffar Chishti, immigraton attorney and director of the Migration Policy Institute’s office in New York
whether America still wants “your tired your poor” 120 years after the Statue of Liberty was built

» migrationpolicy.org
» "The Border" series main page
» The full text of Emma Lazarus' poem, The New Colossus

The Border: Day Laborers

The Brian Lehrer Show

June 29, 2006

Edwin Meléndez, professor at Milano the New School of Management and Urban Policy,
- takes a look at community and immigrant concerns about day labor
and
and Ron Bass, head of United Patriots of America, an organization which is against day laborer sites
- on his work with United Patriots of America

» Milano The New School of Management and Urban Policy

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