Episode FIve: The Wall
In this episode
Nick Miroff
Washington Post
Nick Miroff is a reporter for the Washington Post covering immigration enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security on the America desk.
DW Gibson
Author, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
Credits
Alex Aleinikoff
Co-Host
Deb Amos
Co-Host
Sahil Ansari
Producer and Engineer
Cassidy Giordano
Production Assistant
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How much of Trump’s border wall has been built? Will it stop undocumented migration? What do people living in the border region think about it? Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos talk with Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff and DW Gibson, author of the recently published 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall.
SHOW NOTES
Materials Of interest
Long Reads
- 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall – DW Gibson
- How the Trump Administration uses the “hidden weapons: of immigration law – Q&A with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick – Issac Chotiner, The New Yorker
- Inside a Texas building where the government is holing immigrant children – Q&A with Warren Binford, law professor at Willamette University – Issac Chotiner, The New Yorker
- A journalist on how anti-immigration fervor built in the early twentieth century – Q&A with journalist Daniel Okrent Issac Chotiner, The New Yorker
- A former immigration official on how much harm Trump could do – Issac Chotiner, The New Yorker
- A historian on how Trump’s wall rhetoric changes lives in Mexico – Q&A with Ana Raquel Minian, associate professor at Stanford – Issac Chotiner, The New Yorker
Visuals
- Trump Wall Construction – Track the Status of Trump’s Border Wall!
- Border Wall System – Customs and Border Patrol
- Trump’s misleading “border wall” narrative | The Fact Checker – Washington Post
- Border Wall Prototype Designs – Custom and Border Protection
Articles
- Trump administration is promising a ‘new’ border wall. The reality is less clear – Gretchen Frazee, PBS
- Trump administration is promising a ‘new’ border wall. The reality is less clear – PBS News Hour
- Shoot Migrants’ Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump’s Ideas for Border – Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis – New York Times
- $11 Billion And Counting: Trump’s Border Wall Would Be The World’s Most Costly – John Burnett, NPR
- Trump to Propose $4.8 Trillion Budget With More Border Wall Funding – Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, and Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times
- Trump’s Baseless Claim That Mexico Will Pay for the Wall Through the New Nafta” – Linda Qiu, New York Times
- Does the President’s Goal to Build a Border Wall Merit a Government Shutdown? – Michael Gonchar, New York Times
- Threat of Government Shutdown Fades as Trump Retreats on Wall – Jennifer Steinhauer, Matt Flegenheimer, and Peter Baker, New York Times
- End of Government Shutdown May Depend on the Definition of ‘Wall’ – Emily Cochrane and Jennifer Medina, New York Times
- Forget funding the wall, Trump needs the land first – Gerald S. Dickinson, The Hill
- Park Service Says Archeological Sites are Imperiled by Border Wall – Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times
- Blasting in Construction of Border Wall Is Affecting Tribal Areas – Christine Hauser, New York Times
- Jared Kushner Wants a 24/7 Livestream of the Border-Wall Construction: Report – Matt Stieb, NY Magazine
- Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall – Nick Miroff, Washington Post
- Trump wall – all you need to know about US border in seven charts – Lucy Rodgers and Dominic Bailey, BBC
- Trump administration announces completion of 100 miles of border wall construction – Quinn Owen, ABCNews
- Trump administration reaches 100-mile mark for border wall – Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
- Trump Has Built Nearly 100 Miles of Border Wall by End of 2019, With 350 Miles to Go in 2020 – Chantal Da Silva, Newsweek