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Co-hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar (KPFK) and Dalia Hashad (WBAI), Pacifica’s National Immigration Broadcast, The War on Immigrants, analyzes the new Senate immigration bill set to be voted on by the upper house. The first part of the program features interviews with local immigrant rights activists, historians, writers, and analysts. The program also features produced stories from FSRN stringers from around the world.

GUESTS:

* Nativo Lopez, National President of Hermandad Mexicana and President of the Mexican American Political Association

* Michele Waslin at the National Council of La Raza

* Aristide R. Zolberg, the Walter Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the New School for Social Research

* Jean Pfaelzer, author of “Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans”

* Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Center

* Curtis Muhamad, with the New Orleans of People’s Organizing Committee

* Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College, author of several books including her latest, “They Take Our Jobs” and 20 Other Myths About Immigration.

Special thanks to Mitch Jeserich, Coordinating Producer, Ngoc Nguyen, Features Coordinating Producer (FSRN), and Nathan Moore, Network Programming Coordinator