A Declaration of War Against America's Immigrant Communities

Published: Aug. 3, 2017, 10:33 p.m.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Juan Jose Gutierrez, the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition.

Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind a hardline anti-immigrant bill proposed in the Senate that would see the amount of people admitted to the United States halved in the next decade. What can be done to fight back against the Trump administration’s escalating war on immigrants?

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Brazil’s President Michel Temer has survived a corruption vote in Congress that would have put him on trial. Dr. Francisco Dominguez joins Brian to discuss what comes next for Latin America's largest country and the rest of the continent.