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Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times examines Trump administration policies and actions affecting immigration and migrants and their communities. It adopts a broad perspective, seeing immigration policies in the context of constitutional law and principles, US history and our national narrative. The podcast is hosted by Alex Aleinikoff, Senior Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School; Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy; and Cristina Rodriguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Unsettled is produced with support from the Oscar M. Reubhausen Fund at Yale Law School, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, and the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility at The New School. Unsettled is produced by Sahil Ansari. The cover art was designed by Aam Creative. The music was composed by Achilles Kallergis.

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Season 3, Episode 4: Immigration and the Midterm Elections

2026/10/26

This episode dives into how the issue of immigration is playing in the 2026 midterm elections campaigns and among the electorate. We’re joined by Adrian Carrasquillo, who writes the Huddled Masses newsletter at The Bulwark.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Shadow Surge in ICE Arrests

2026/10/16

After the nationwide public outcry and opposition to ICE’s actions in Los Angeles and Chicago, ICE has moved away from neighborhood and workplace sweeps to targeting individuals for arrest and deportation. To get a better understanding of what is happening on American streets and in American communities, we’re speaking with Jazmíne Ulloa, a reporter at The New York Times and author of El Paso: Five Families and 100 Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.

Season 3, Episode 2: International and Undocumented Students

2026/10/01

This episode looks at recent actions and policies taken by the Trump administration that are having significant impacts on international students and US higher education in general.

Season 3, Episode 1: Revisiting Birth Right Citizenship

2026/09/17

This episode revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a whack at birthright citizenship.

Episode 7: Coming to America, Then and Now

2026/06/25

This episode takes a comprehensive look at the first year and a half of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. How different or similar are the policies and actions we’re seeing today compared with earlier times in U.S. history? What do these scores of changes add up to?

Season 2, Episode 6: Supreme Court

2026/05/18

This episode looks at two cases that the Supreme Court heard in March and April of this year: Noem v. Al Otro Lado and Trump v. Barbara. They’re significant cases that address very different aspects of immigration and citizenship.

Season 2, Episode 5: Immigration Detention

2026/03/20

This episode looks at immigration detention in the second Trump administration. The administration has been greatly expanding detention facilities by buying warehouses to be converted into eight large-scale detention facilities, with the goal of having these facilities operational by the end of September of this year. The administration intends to use military procurement to speed up this transformation.

Season 2, Episode 4: Rights in the Era of ICE Raids

2026/02/24

This episode reflects on immigration enforcement in the United States from the perspective of civil liberties, assessing the broader implications of contemporary enforcement practices for constitutional rights and the rule of law.

Season 2, Episode 3: 'I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.'

2026/01/27

Elora Mukherjee, Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor Law at Columbia Law School, joins Alex Aleinikoff and Hiroshi Motomura to discuss her December 2025 op-ed in the New York Times, “I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives” and the broader context around immigration law in our current moment. Please note: this episode begins with a discussion of the events in Minneapolis, but was recorded prior to the Janaury 24, 2026 shooting of Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis, MN.

Season 2, Episode 2: H-1B Visas

2026/01/13

David J. Bier, Director of Immigration Studies and The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at the Cato Institute, joins Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina Rodriguez to discuss the implications of 2025 Executive Order on H-1B visas, what might be motivating that Executive Order, and the ins and outs of economic, labor, and employment migration.