IMMIGRATION EDITION: NETTING TRAFFIC VIOLATORS. Immigration enforcement in Colorado announced that in an effort to net criminals and begin deportation proceedings against them, they were screening traffic and court summons. Immigrant advocates rallied against the procedure, saying it will dissuade people from showing up in courts of law. Attorney Rosalba Piña hosts this edition from Chicago. Piña also answers listeners’ questions and encourages eligible immigrants to apply for residency and naturalization.

Guest: Salvador Varela, Member, Metro Organizations for People and Reina de la Paz Catholic Church, Aurora, CO.

NEARING MONTGOMERY. Civil rights leaders, immigrant rights advocates, and union organizers near the end of their march from Selma to Montgomery, to demand the repeal of Alabama's anti-immigrant law. Reverend Jesse Jackson joins this edition from the march to discuss the parallels between the African-American civil rights movement of the sixties and today’s immigration justice movement. This edition is simulcast with three-station network Radio La Jefa in Alabama.

Guest: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Marching between Selma and Montgomery, AL, http://rainbowpush.org ; José Antonio Castro, Radio Host and Producer, Radio La Jefa, Between Selma and Montgomery, AL, www.aquimandalajefa.com

ALSO, FORECLOSED AND DEPORTED. A woman was deported after being arrested for trespassing as she protested the foreclosure of her home in Southern California. This edition offers an exclusive interview with her from Mexico.

FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY. Union leaders join immigrant rights activists and civil rights organizers for a week-long march in Alabama to call for a repeal of the state’s anti-immigrant law. The march follows the same route that African-American civil rights activists took to demand voting rights in March of 1965, facing attacks by police along the way. This edition is in simulcast with the three-station network of Radio La Jefa in Birmingham, Alabama.

Guests: Eliseo Medina, International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), En route between Selma and Montgomery, AL; José Antonio Castro, Radio Host and Producer, Radio La Jefa, En route between Selma and Montgomery, AL; Maricela and Marisol, Students from Idaho, Participating in March in Alabama.

ORGANS FOR IMMIGRANTS. A young immigrant father who needs a new kidney was removed from the organ donation waiting list because of his undocumented status. After public outcry, the UC San Francisco Medical Center placed him back on the list, but he must secure long-term health insurance in order to get the transplant. This edition takes a look at this story and the often unsuccessful quest of immigrants to receive a new organ.

Guests: Jesús Navarro, Potential kidney recipient, Oakland, CA (pretaped); Dr. Joshua Adler, Chief Medical Officer, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, http://www.ucsfhealth.org (pretaped); Laura Rivas, Program Associate, Immigrant Justice & Rights Program, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Oakland, CA, www.nnirr.org

SHATTERED FAMILIES. More than 5,000 children currently in foster care have parents who have been detained or deported, according to a recent report that attempts to shed light on the crisis caused by the disconnect between federal immigration authorities and the child welfare system. In some cases, social services departments attempt to strip parents of their custody rights because they have not shown up to hearings or because they argue they have not done enough to return to the United States.

Guest: Esther Portillo-González, Researcher, Applied Research Center, New York, NY, www.arc.org/shatteredfamilies

ALSO, INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT. This is an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama, in which he speaks about the payroll tax cut, the recent bank settlement to benefit homeowners at risk of foreclosure, and the separation of families due to deportation. Radio Bilingüe’s news director Samuel Orozco conducts the interview.

IMMIGRATION EDITION: DISCRETION FOR WHOM? A 22 year-old woman who had attempted suicide twice in detention was deported to Mexico, where she has no immediate family and has not lived since she was a child. The case of Yanelli Hernández has DREAM Act activists asking why Obama’s recently announced prosecutorial discretion was not used in this case. This edition offers a discussion of how prosecutorial discretion is being applied. Attorney Rosalba Piña, an immigration law expert, hosts this edition from Chicago. Piña also answers listeners’ questions about how to apply for residency and naturalization.

Guests: Juan Escalante, Student and DREAM Act Activist, Tallahassee, FL, www.dreamactivist.org ; Mark Silverman, Director of Immigration Policy, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, San Francisco, CA, www.ilrc.org

DEPORTATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. The U.S. has deported over 160,000 immigrants without giving them access to a lawyer or allowing them a day in court, over the past decade. Meanwhile, those who do get a day in court are often poorly represented. According to a recent report in New York, almost half of immigrants with lawyers received inadequate representation. What can be done to solve this problem?

Guest: Claudia Slovinsky, Immigration attorney and co-author of report “Accessing Justice”, New York, NY, http://www.cardozolawreview.com/content/denovo/NYIRS_Report.pdf.

ALSO, “BOOK BAN” IN TUCSON. After Arizona banned Mexican American Studies programs in state schools, the Tucson Unified School Board removed ethnic studies books from classrooms and reportedly told teachers to stop teaching anything involving race or oppression. Hundreds of people are calling for the board to return books from off-site storage and allow students to access them easily.

HATE RADIO. A new report from the National Hispanic Media Coalition explores how hate groups and hate crimes have spiked while hate radio's popularity and reach have grown across the country. The report details hundreds of consumer complaints to the Federal Communications Commission against powerful talk radio stations. The complaints allege that radio announcers used racist, hate terminology against African-Americans, Jews, and Latinos, and in some cases, encouraged physical violence against people from these groups.

Guest: Alex Nogales, President, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Pasadena, CA, www.nhmc.org

IMMIGRATION EDITION: A RELIEF TO FAMILY SEPARATION. The Obama administration is proposing a change to immigration rules, that would allow undocumented immigrants with U.S. citizen family members to apply within the United States to legalize their status and ask to avoid staying for 3-10 years outside the country. The new rules could benefit hundreds of thousands of immigrant families. Attorney Rosalba Piña, immigration law expert, hosts this edition from Chicago. Piña also answers’ listeners questions and encourages them to take the steps to become permanent residents and citizens.

Guests: Cecilia Muñoz, Newly Appointed Director of the Domestic Policy Council, The White House, Washington, D.C.; Mariela Melero, Chief, Office of Public Engagement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Washington, D.C.

TWO TIMES DISPLACED. Thousands of pig farmers in Veracruz, Mexico, were pushed off their farms when a U.S.-based corporation overwhelmed the market of pork and feed to Mexico. Struggling to survive, many of those small butchers migrated to the U.S., where they ended up working for the same corporation: Smithfield Foods, the world's largest packer of pork. Soon, many migrant workers got unionized and challenged the giant, only to find themselves displaced from their work again. This program includes a conversation with a journalist who has investigated the story.

Guests: David Bacon, journalist, Oakland, CA, http://www.thenation.com/article/165438/how-us-policies-fueled-mexicos-g... ; Carolina Ramirez, independent researcher, associate of Veracruz State Human Rights Commission, Xalapa, Mexico; "Roberto Ortega" (recording), former worker, Smithfield Foods, Redsprings, North Carolina.