Episode one: How We got Here
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis
New York Times
Julie Hirschfeld Davis is an American journalist. She is currently the congressional editor for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. She was previously a White House correspondent.
Michael Shear
New York Times
Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.
Credits
Alex Aleinikoff
Co-Host
Deb Amos
Co-Host
Sahil Ansari
Producer and Engineer
Cassidy Giordano
Production Assistant
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New York Times reporters Michael Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis discuss the Trump campaign’s positions on immigration (including “the Wall,” the Muslim ban, ICE enforcement) and the role of Bannon, Miller and Sessions in helping to set the agenda.
Materials Of interest
Articles
Here’s Donald Trump’s Presidential Announcement Speech – Time.com
The Case of the Missing White Voters – Real Clear Politics
The Case of the Missing White Voters, Revisited – Real Clear Politics
Transcript: Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech (Trump on Radical Islam) – New York Times
Executive Order 13769 Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States – The White House
Trump’s New Travel Ban Blocks Migrants from Six Nations, Sparing Iraq – New York Times
Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech (in Phoenix, Arizona) – New York Times
United States Congress: Immigration Report Card Locator – Numbers USA
Jeff Sessions’s Unqualified Praise for a 1924 Immigration Law – The Atlantic
How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further his Immigration Obsession – The New Yorker
Books
Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael R. Shear
Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising, Joshua Green
Video Clips
“Warm Welcome: Crowd Cheers for President Trump in New Mexico” – YouTube
“Unfiltered Voices from Donald Trump’s Crowds | The New York Times” – YouTube (warning: explicit content, including vulgarities and racial and ethnic slurs. The Zolberg Institute does not condone this language.)