Episodes

  • Introducing: Out of the Shadows
    Apr 12 2022

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    2 mins
  • Children of 86
    Apr 21 2022

    Hosts Patty Rodriguez and Erick Galindo reflect on their lives as children of immigrants. They realize that a pivotal moment in their parents and their lives was in fact the signing of IRCA in 1986. That moment defined our generation.

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    27 mins
  • Braceros at Large
    Apr 28 2022

    Hosts Patty Rodriguez and Erick Galindo's families were just some of the millions who migrated to the United States during the great migration, a period of circular movement across the border fueled by the Bracero program and shaped by America's wars.

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    30 mins
  • La Migra, the Priest and a Cowboy From Wyoming
    May 5 2022

    The bill that would be IRCA is proposed by a priest but the bill dies almost immediately setting up a battle between a no-nonsense senator named Alan Simpson and most of Congress. Meanwhile, ICE-style raids haunt immigrant communities. 

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    41 mins
  • OG Ronald Reagan
    May 12 2022

    On the eve of IRCA's historic signing, "President Ronald Reagan" reflects on his legacy.

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    38 mins
  • The Letter
    May 19 2022

    A 10-year-old girl pens a letter to the president pleading for amnesty.

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    32 mins
  • How to Prove You’re Undocumented
    May 26 2022

    Now that IRCA is the law of the land, immigrants scramble to prove they qualify for amnesty.

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    32 mins
  • Escape From El Salvador
    Jun 2 2022

    Central American refugees paid the price for Reagan's Latin American proxy wars.

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    41 mins