Are you there God? It's me, Yakima.
New podcast episode featuring Stephen Robbins
Immigration lawyer Stephen Robbins dials in for a wide ranging chat about life in Yakima — currently the unexpected epicenter (or in Governor Inslee's words, "Eh-pee-center") of Coronavirus in Washington State.
We cover the demographic and political environment in the county and how pre-existing sanitation and other abysmal conditions in the agricultural industry might be contributing to a public health crisis in a place where half the population sees not wearing masks as a patriotic statement and the other half works in an industry that is 50%-70% undocumented and lives very close to the edge in the best of times.
So yeah, it gets a little dark in this ep, but there's a labor fight that's actually going kinda well, so it ends on a hopeful note!
SUPPLEMENTS
“DACA Survives” latest episode of Stephen's great immigration law podcast
Spokesman story about Luis Cortes Romero, the U of Idaho Law grad who just saved DACA
Episode image of backbreaking Yakima farm labor courtesy of the Library of Congress
GOOFS
None because I'm perfect.
Can we talk about the sports tourism economy and it’s impact on the regions coronavirus response? Really, the greater us as a whole thanks to public facilities districts and the animal that is collegiate sports. And golf I like to talk about golf these days.