• Title: IMMIGRATION EDITION: DEFERRED ACTION. ALSO, DREAMERS JAILED.
• Guest: Marielena Hincapie.
• Additional Guests: Marco Saavedra.
• Host: Rosalba Piña
• Date: TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012
• Description: IMMIGRATION EDITION: DEFERRED ACTION. Department of Homeland Security has announced the process by which certain young people who came to the United States as children may request deferred action of deportation.
• Genre: News
• Location: Chicago, IL.
• Program Number: 6745
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6745
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Immigration
• Year: 2012
• Program Name: la_120807.mp3
• Length: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

IMMIGRATION EDITION: DEFERRED ACTION. Department of Homeland Security has announced the process by which certain young people who came to the United States as children may request deferred action of deportation. A top immigrant rights advocate who was present at the negotiating table joins this edition to give an overview and answer questions. Attorney Rosalba Piña hosts this edition from Chicago.

Guest: Marielena Hincapie, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center, Washington, D.C. www.nilc.org

ALSO, DREAMERS JAILED. A group of undocumented youth allowed themselves to be detained by immigration agents and once within a detention center's walls, they began a hunger strike, demanding low-priority immigrants be released. This edition includes an interview with one of the "dreamer" activists, Marco Saavedra, shortly after being released.

Guest: Marco Saavedra, Activist, National Immigrant Youth Alliance, Outside Broward Transitional Center, Pompano Beach, FL.