Immigration Chats with Tejas and Kalpana Tejas & Kalpana

Beatles legend, John Lennon, helped to shed light on the government's policy on deferred action and paved the way to DACA. DACA is a program initiated by President Obama that temporarily protects young people, commonly known as Dreamers, from deportation. In this episode we discuss why deferred action has been a critical part of U.S. immigration policy. We also speak to two Dreamers who have benefited from DACA, including one who was the first person to use the "Morton Memo" to halt her depor...

Trump thought immigrants harm American workers. Economists and the Courts disagreed. Tejas & Kalpana examine President Trump’s 2020 bans on immigrants that are rooted in economic and labor market justifications. They interview Professor Giovanni Peri, the Director of the Migration Research Cluster at the University of California in Davis, and Divey Gulati, an entrepreneur and co-founder of a successful logistics company called ShipBob. If you like what you hear, please rate and subs...

The U.S. is banning immigrants! Can the President really do that? In this introduction to their podcast, "Presidents, Autocrats, and Immigration Bans," our hosts Tejas Shah and Kalpana Peddibhotla examine the President's wide-ranging authority to bar immigrants and examine a legitimate question in light of President's Trump's actions between 2016 and 2020 - is the President a King and does he have absolute authority over U.S. immigration? This podcast episode includes the words of ...