Ep 10 - The State of Worker & Immigrant Rights - Dr. Patricia Campos Medina

Rupande speaks with the labor & immigrant leader, Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina about her immigrant story and her lifelong fight for workers rights. They talk about the affirmative action decision by SCOTUS in the United States, and what the harmful effects of that can be for immigrants and children of color.

Dr. Campos-Medina sheds light on the real "immigrant" problem and how decades of interference and harmful policies by the US has led to a crisis at our border. She talks about the importance of bringing more voices - primarily that of WoC - into our electoral politics and how the dreaded line in New Jersey politics needs to be abolished.

Resources Recommended:

1. The Worker Institute @ Cornell University
2. The Migration Policy Institute, follow Muzaffar Chisti: ⁠https://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/staff/muzaffar-chishti⁠
3. National Employment Law Project
4. National Domestic Workers Alliance/NJ Workers Bill of Rights
5. Any immigrants rights groups

Other resources discussed during the interview:

• Julian Castro's Marshall Plan for Central America:⁠https://borgenproject.org/julian-castros-marshall-plan-for-central-america/⁠
• Centering Race in Studies of Low-Wage Immigrant Labor: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-111622-062400?fbclid=IwAR3ZFpjhjMUK4ODfF8gKlXrOdYulZ_ukV0oYAsR9jMUSKzmoPT9QmuzK2Ho