The Legacy of the Biggest Immigration Raid
In 2008, ICE agents descended on a small rural town in Iowa for their largest operation in the history of the United States. As a result, the population of Postville was slashed almost in half and its economy collapsed. Maria and Julio talk to…
Charlottesville: One Year Later
A year after the tragedy of Charlottesville and just days after the Unite The Right 2 Rally, Julio talks with returning ITT guest Mike German, a former FBI agent who once infiltrated white supremacy groups undercover. ITT Staff Picks
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ITT EXTRA: Debating How to Reunite Immigrant Families
Maria and Julio talk about the work of Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels’ attorney…and future 2020 presidential candidate, maybe?) to reunite immigrant families. His clients are parents who have been deported, and whose kids are still in the …
The Chaos Is Real
Maria and Julio catch up with all-star Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root, and Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter at Vox. They talk the latest with conspiracy theories, Paul Manafort’s white male hubris, Unite the Right 2 …
ITT EXTRA: This Place Is a Snake Pit
Maria and Julio talk about the role of POC journalism in the Trump era including the latest revelations on the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, the National Association of Black Journalists’ latest resolution and the silent…
The Antidote to Hate
Maria and Julio catch up with immigration organizers Cristina Jiménez, executive director of United We Dream, and Grecia Lima, national political director of The Center for Community Change. They talk about the latest court decision on DACA, t…
ITT EXTRA: The Trumpocalypse
This week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported that a migrant toddler died shortly after being released from an ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas. There are 11,000 kids are living in these detention facilities across the …
Flexin’ Our Grit Muscles
Maria and Julio talk about the news with two all-stars: Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar on WGBH Radio, and Gabby Rivera, writer, artist, activist and our resident nerdberger. They discuss midterm elections, the latest on immigration p…
ITT EXTRA: Nicaragua’s Crisis Explained
It all started with deadly, violent protests against the Nicaraguan government, but did it really? In this special ITT EXTRA, Julio catches up with Latino USA producer Sayre Quevedo to hear the behind the scenes of his reporting for his latest…
#121: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Revolution
Four weeks ago, no one knew her name, but now she gives hope for progressives across the country (and around the world). Julio and Maria talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about why she decided to run for Congress and what the future will bring …
Rosa Clemente on Puerto Rico, Me Too and Hip Hop
She was the first Latina to run for vice president with the Green Party in 2008, but Rosa Clemente has long been organizing for political and social change. Maria and Julio talk to Rosa about her organizing work, the rap industrial complex and…
#120: Time to Take Comrade Trump Seriously
Julio catches up with all-star guests Raquel Cepeda, filmmaker and author, and Wajahat Ali, TV host and contributor to The New York Times, about all the latest threats to U.S. democracy. They talk about the meeting between Trump and Putin in H…
ITT EXTRA: A Neuroscientist’s Warning of Family Separation
We’ve seen the crying and suffering of children being torn apart from their parents at the U.S. border, but what is happening in these kids’ brains and what is the neurological long-term impact of trauma? Maria calls up a badass neuroscientist…
#119: The New Battle for Reproductive Rights
Donald Trump has nominated Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court and many are fearing that this will lead to an overturn of Roe v. Wade. Maria and Julio talk to Tannia Esparza, executive director of t…
The Power of Baring Broken Hearts
Pati Navalta Poblete went from being a columnist and journalist to being in the news when her son died due to gun violence in 2014. Maria and Julio speak with Pati about how she has turned her grief into activism and her memoir A Better Place….
#118: You Mad? The Politics of American Rage
Maria and Julio meet up at Aspen Ideas Festival with Dr. Brittney Cooper (aka Professor Crunk), associate professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog and Dr. Michael Kimmel, founder and director of the …
ITT EXTRA: Mexico’s Outrage Election
This Sunday July 1, Mexicans will choose thousands of political positions, from mayors to the new president. Maria and Julio talk with Mexican journalist León Krauze about what to expect from the front-runner and if this election can really ch…
#117: It’s a Muslim Ban
While immigrant families are still separated after Trump’s zero tolerance policy, the Supreme Court upheld his travel ban. María and Julio talk with ITT All Star Wajahat Ali, op-ed contributor for The New York Times, about what this decision m…
NPR’s Lulu García-Navarro and the State of Democracy in Latin America
She has worked as a correspondent in Israel, Syria and Libya, but Latin America is very much in her heart. Lulu García-Navarro, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, joins María and Julio to talk about the elections in Colombia and Mexico, and…
#116: Undermining Our Own Democracy
The government keeps defending its policy of separating migrant families at the border and the Supreme Court makes a decision that will impact voting rights for the next election. Maria and Julio discuss the latest headlines with In The Thic…
ITT EXTRA: It’s Never JUST About Fútbol
Maria and Julio sit down with Alicia Rose DelGallo, editor and co-founder of ProSoccerUSA.com to discuss fútbol (aka soccer)! They chat about the politics of the World Cup, diversity in U.S. soccer and whether or not pro players are using thei…
#115: Zero Tolerance
Maria and Julio talk about the damaging effect of separating parents and their children at the U.S.-Mexico border. They are joined by Sandy Santana, executive director of the national legal non-profit Children’s Rights, part of a group of orga…
ITT EXTRA: Active Dehumanization
In our weekly news roundup, Maria and Julio share the latest about the Hurricane Mara death count in Puerto Rico. They also discuss immigration news that’s not making the front pages: from the largest recent workplace raid under Trump at an Oh…
#114: LIVE From Chicago, the Immigration Detention Machine
In the final part of In The Thick’s LIVE series at DePaul University, Maria and Julio discuss the immigration detention machine. According to the Prison Policy’s 2018 report, there are 34,000 immigrants detained by ICE, 13,000 more people in f…