Immigration Ain't Easy

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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 44: Ian Philabaum, Innovation Law Lab 26.10.2025 1sa 10dk

  Send us Fan Mail Ian Philabaum is the Director of Legal Organizing for Innovation Law Lab and has spent nearly the past decade in assisting immigrants through his work at ILL. He has been at the forefront in the push against the proliferation of ICE detention throughout our country. He has assisted children and families in detention. He has worked to fight against the human rights violations that occur in immigration detention including inhumane medical treatment, labor exploitation and physi...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 43: Attorneys Marc Van Der Hout & Johnny Sinodis 21.09.2025 1sa 17dk

  Send us Fan Mail Representing immigrants in their deportation proceedings can be a challenge, but it can be even more formidable when your client is Mahmoud Khalil. Mr. Khalil, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., was arrested by the Trump administration after being a prominent member of the Israel/Gaza war protests at Columbia University. He was detained in Louisiana for three months before a federal judge ruled that he must be released to his wife and newborn baby son. Two of the ...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 42: Dr. Michael Lokale 06.09.2025 59dk

  Send us Fan Mail Running brings great health benefits for many, but for Dr. Michael Lokale it brought him opportunity and a chance at the American dream. Dr. Lokale was born and raised in a remote tribal village, Kitale, Kenya to corn farmers. He witnessed many people die of preventable diseases. The lack of medical care motivated him to become a doctor and his intention was to go back to Kenya and help improve the healthcare in his native land, but, like the Boston Marathon, life has many tw...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 41: Kavan Hazeli, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona 31.08.2025 1sa 2dk

  Send us Fan Mail Kavan Hazeli is an associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the College of Optical Sciences. An immigrant from Iran, Hazeli received the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2020. He joins me to talk about his immigrant story and path to running his own research group. He also discusses the impact of government funding cuts, unfair tar...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 40: Professor Leah Ndimurwimo, International Human Rights Expert 16.08.2025 1sa 9dk

  Send us Fan Mail At a time where immigration steals the headlines almost every day, Professor Leah Ndimurwimo focuses her research on migration and refugee studies. She is a recognized expert on international human rights and, in particular, South African and international law. Professor Ndimurwimo works at Nelson Mandela University, but is currently a Fulbright research scholar at the University of Arizona. She is an author and co-author of peer-reviewed publications on violations of h...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 39: Immigrant and Immigration Attorney Parastoo Zahedi 08.06.2025 53dk

  Send us Fan Mail Parastoo Zahedi knows what it is like to immigrate to the United States. Her own experiences in coming here from Iran has been a key reason why she became an immigration attorney: she wanted to help other attain the American dream and she has done so in many different ways. Since graduating from Georgetown Law School in 1988, Parastoo has become a recognized expert in immigration law and her law practice represents clients in a wide spectrum of matters including: Adjustment o...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 38: Author Anatoly "Tola" Molotkov 24.05.2025 1sa 1dk

  Send us Fan Mail Anatoly "Tola" Molotkov is a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist, and a co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and immigrated to the U.S. in 1990 while writing predominantly in Russian at that time. He gradually learned to read and write in English while reading books like J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." A few years after arriving in the U.S., Tola transitioned to writing completely in English and he is now t...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 37: Patent Attorney Babak Akhlaghi and Immigration Attorney Amy Maldonado 18.05.2025 1sa 5dk

  Send us Fan Mail Babak Akhlaghi has waited well over a decade to finally see his brother, Kaveh, arrive in the United States. The wait has been excruciating, unnecessary and a prime example of how the U.S. immigration system fails the best and brightest. Kaveh Akhlaghi is a renowned architect based in Iran who has seen his ability to get a work visa inexplicably delayed year-after-year and resulted in repeated federal litigation. Babak, who works in Washington DC as a patent attorney, has not...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 36: Former MLB pitcher and current color commentator Rodrigo López 04.05.2025 1sa 5dk

  Send us Fan Mail Rodrigo López grew up in Mexico during an era when Fernandomania spread across the country. López was one of a generation of Mexican children who emulated the late Fernando Valenzuela, an all-time great pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Inspired by Valenzuela's success and fame, Rodrigo became a pitcher and eventually made his way to the United States where he worked hard to make the major leagues in 2000. He went on to pitch in the majors for six different teams over 12 y...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 35- Human Rights Organizer Aly Wane 16.04.2025 1sa 13dk

  Send us Fan Mail Originally hailing from Senegal, Aly Wane came to the United States with a diplomatic visa at the tender age of 9-years-old. His mother hoped that the United States would provide him with an excellent education and future opportunities. Eventually on a student visa, Aly received two educations: 1) An education through academia and 2) An education on how difficult, rigid and cruel the U.S. immigration system is. After following all the rules, he found himself...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 34- Immigration Attorney & "Renaissance Man" David Asser 12.04.2025 1sa 7dk

  Send us Fan Mail David Asser is a jack of all trades. A man of many talents and skills. He has been a comedian, an actor, a television and film producer/director/writer, an attorney, and even the Press Secretary and Spokesperson of the Justice Department of The Netherlands in The Hague and as an International Policy Advisor for the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service. What David has more than all else is a huge heart and a desire to help immigrants find what he once did: The American...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 33- Entrepreneur Akash Desai and Attorney Danielle Rizzo 08.04.2025 1sa 4dk

  Send us Fan Mail Akash Desai immigrated to the United States, but that process was not overly difficult in comparison to his struggles to retain high-skilled foreign workers in this country. Akash is the Co-CEO of CyFlare, a fast-growing cybersecurity solutions company based in West Seneca, New York. In this episode, Akash speaks about the trials and tribulations of being an executive in the high tech industry and the difficulties in trying to get work visas, like the elusive H-1B, for intern...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 32- Legal Scholar Professor Ilya Somin 23.03.2025 46dk

  Send us Fan Mail Professor Ilya Somin from George Mason University emigrated as a refugee from the former Soviet Union to the United States with his parents in 1979. The family was assisted in this move by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and were resettled in Westport, Connecticut. The Somin family eventually settled in Lexington, Massachusetts. After some difficulty with assimilation to the United States, Professor Somin found an appreciation for debate and eventually attended Amherst Colle...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 31- Somali Refugee and Entrepreneur Sahra Hirsi 19.03.2025 43dk

  Send us Fan Mail Sahra Hirsi was exiled from her native Somalia in the early 1990's. She lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for around 15 years before finally resettling in the United States. She arrived in Tucson, Arizona with a new lease on life and was provided support from wonderful advocates such as Barbara Eiswerth and the Ishkashitaa Refugee Network. Sahra took full advantage of her opportunity and she attended the University of Arizona and went on to open several businesses that h...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 30: Multidisciplinary Artist Safwat Saleem 23.02.2025 1sa 6dk

  Send us Fan Mail Safwat Saleem joins me in this episode to talk about his journey from Pakistan to the United States and how immigrant themes are prevalent in his artwork. Safwat is a multidisciplinary artist with a key focus on cultural loss resulting from assimilation. As described on his website, "Safwat’s body of work weaves together themes of preservation, desire to belong, resistance and joy as an immigrant father raising a multiracial child in the American Southwest." Safwa...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 29: Immigration & Civil Rights Attorney Ira Kurzban 16.02.2025 1sa 24dk

  Send us Fan Mail Ira Kurzban's last name has become synonymous with the field of immigration law. He published the first edition of the Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook in 1990 and it quickly became one of the most respected treatises on U.S. immigration law. Nineteen editions later, the book is universally used by private immigration lawyers, government lawyers, judges, policy makers and countless immigration advocates as one of the primary sources of U.S. immigration law and policy. Mr....
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 28: Part 2 of Dr. Goldman's Family Therapy with siblings Alejandra Pablos & Jesus Magaña 10.02.2025 58dk

  Send us Fan Mail THIS IS PART 2 OF A 2-PART AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL EPISODE In this final part of our discussion, we delve more into the loving bond between Alejandra and Jesus and how her deportation case made it even stronger. Life is complicated. One thing that we know is nobody's perfect (besides Donald Trump). Alejandra Pablos learned the hard way after being detained for two years at the Eloy Detention Center and she's hoping for a second chance. While Ale was born on side of t...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 27: Dr. Goldman's Family Therapy with siblings Alejandra Pablos & Jesus Magaña 06.02.2025 1sa 5dk

  Send us Fan Mail Life is complicated. One thing that we know is nobody's perfect (besides Donald Trump). Alejandra Pablos learned the hard way after being detained for two years at the Eloy Detention Center and she's hoping for a second chance. While Ale was born on side of the border and her brother, Jesus Magaña was born on the other side. Jesus, a U.S. citizen. Ale, who lived in the U.S. for nearly her entire life, finally realized she was not a U.S. citizen in her teens. She eventua...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 26: Attorney and Human Rights Advocate Mark Shmueli 02.02.2025 1sa 19dk

  Send us Fan Mail Mark Shmueli lets his compassion propel his desire to help other humans. He has been in the trenches assisting immigrants for over twenty years and been outspoken regarding xenophobic policies that directly hurt the U.S. immigrant population and others trying to reach our shores. Mark has been the representative of the Maryland State Bar Association on the Governor’s Commission to Study the Impact of Immigrants in Maryland Mark co-authored its 2012 final report. In this inter...
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  Immigration Ain't Easy Ep. 25- Political and Legal Geographer Austin Kocher 23.01.2025 1sa 9dk

  Send us Fan Mail Anyone who wants the facts on immigration controls, policing and border enforcement must follow/subscribe to Dr. Austin Kocher on social media and through his writings on Substack. He is a must follow! His research and data has been widely cited to and noted in both academic and media publications. Dr. Kocher is a geographer and Assistant Research Professor in the Office of Research and Creative Activity in the S.I. Newhouse of Public Communication at Syracuse University (GO ...