The Melting Pod

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About The Melting Pod

The Melting Pod brings you stories of our dysfunctional immigration system, and where we go from here. Hosted by three friends who’ve served inside the federal government for two decades and four presidents of both parties, The Melting Pod will give you a deeper understanding of the immigration headlines, without jargon or shallow punditry. Amanda Baran, Doug Rand, and Claire Trickler-McNulty will also bring you extraordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell – about how we got here and where we're going.

Language: English
Type: podcast

Latest episodes(16)

1From Suing the Man to Serving the Man, with Lucas Guttentag
17 Oct 20261h 18m
What happens when you spend decades suing the government, and then help run the government? Back in the 1980s, Lucas Guttentag started the Immigrant Rights Project at the ACLU. He and his team argued…
2News Dive: The Great De-Legalization, H-1B Follies, and Midterm Predictions
22 Sept 20261h 1m
We plunge beneath the latest immigration headlines to make sense of the senseless. What is the human cost of revoking deportation protections from over a million people? Why is the newly proposed H-1B…
3Asylum Is Not a Loophole, with Colleen Zengotitabengoa
9 Sept 20261h 17m
What is asylum? Simply put, the United States must not return someone to a country where they have a well-founded fear of persecution. Following the atrocities of World War II, Congress created a U.S.…
4Confessions of an Immigration Bureaucrat, with Michael Valverde
16 Aug 20261h 5m
Every year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) makes millions of highly consequential decisions that affect individual people’s lives. Applications for green cards, work permits, asylum…
5Three Big Lies About Immigrants and Fraud, with Sonya Schwartz
2 Aug 202656m
From the first moments of his first campaign for president, Donald Trump has accused immigrants of fraudulently obtaining public benefits, immigration protections, and even votes. Does any of this…
6A Winning Message on Immigration, with Beatriz Lopez
2 Aug 20261h 3m
In the 2024 presidential election, Republicans spent nearly $600 million on political advertisements pounding Biden (and then Harris) for botching the border. The Democrats’ uninspiring message in…
7The Reality-Based Economics of Immigration, with Jenny Hunt
2 Aug 202649m
Jenny Hunt is a Rutgers University professor, the former Chief Economist at the Department of Labor, and a key contributor to the gold-standard, 600-page consensus report on the economic consequences…
8News Digest: Green Card Chaos, Hunger Strikes, and Stern Dad Energy
2 Aug 20261h 8m
We dive underneath the latest immigration headlines to make sense of the senseless. Why did the Trump administration threaten to shut down U.S. green card processing? Why did the press believe that…
9The Truth About ICE, with Jason Houser
2 Aug 20261h 2m
From calls to abolish ICE to deeply held misconceptions about immigration and criminality, few agencies generate more heat and less light than Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In this episode, we…
10Who’s Afraid of the H-1B?
2 Aug 20261h 14m
The H-1B is a white-collar work visa, essentially unchanged by Congress since 1990 – before the birth of the first text message, the first website, and 40% of our population. Is the H-1B program an…

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