Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows is a podcast about America's tangled history of immigration hosted by award-winning New York Times writer Erick Galindo and entrepreneur and best-selling author Patty Rodriguez. Season 2: Dreamers Last season, we tackled Ronald Regan’s 1986 amnesty act, Season 2 will trace the origins of DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a contentious executive order to protect un…Social links:
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What's Going to Happen to DACA?
DACA could end today even though it would cost billions to end and possibly destroy entire communities all around America.
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The Revolution Will Be TikTok
The immigrant rights movement of today is not the same as it was 11 years ago. But it hasn’t gone away. It’s just gone viral. We break down how tools like TikTok and Instagram have changed the way Dreamers make moves to fight the system.
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A Taco Truck Worth Billions
DACA’s survival is a big deal for people who make your street food like tacos, but it's also good for the American economy. Whether it’s taqueros or nurses, teachers, first responders, lawyers and so many others, DACA recipients contribute hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy. So yeah, th…
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An Undocumented Lawyer Walks Into a Bar
Luis Cortes Romero became a lawyer thanks to DACA but can he save the very program that granted him his work permit from President Donald Trump? A Supreme Court battle wages on to save Dreamers from deportation.
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American Parents
DACA only extended protection to a little under a million people, leaving out millions for reasons of age, felony status or just plain bad luck. After the Obama administration kept hearing concerns about all those people that were left out of the program, President Barack Obama is being pressured t…
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The Dream Nine
After months of planning and years of organizing, a daring group of undocumented organizers embark on their biggest and most dangerous demonstration yet. The mission: bring home six Dreamers who were now living in Mexico and could not benefit from DACA. This is the story of the Dream Nine... told …
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UnDACAmented
With a quick stroke of a pen President Barack Obama created DACA - but the application process wasn't easy. And it didn’t include everyone. That created a lot of issues for the Dreamers. Like what happens to families who had members that met the criteria but others who didn’t? And were some Dreamer…
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The Executive Order
On June 15th, 2012 former President Barack Obama shocked the country when he walked onto the White House lawn and announced the executive order DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. But who made it happen? On this episode of Out of the Shadows: Dreamers, Patty and Erick explore how behi…
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The Sit-In
Between 2006 and 2007, millions of people took to the streets to fight for immigration reform. The protests reached a climax on May 1st, 2006. The day would later be nicknamed, A Day Without An Immigrant. Did La Gran Marcha influence the Dreamer Movement? On this episode, Patty and Erick tackle wh…
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The Dreamers
Hosts Patty Rodriguez and Erick Galindo return for an all-new season of the iHeart podcast, Out of the Shadows, this time to tell the story of the Dreamer Movement and the origins of DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. On the first episode of the season, they explore the many influenc…
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