A Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration

Sep 18, 2024

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance admitted on national television that he spread false rumors about Haitian immigrants consuming people鈥檚 pets in Springfield, Ohio. In an , the Ohio senator said, 鈥淚f I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that鈥檚 what I鈥檓 going to do.鈥�

The Republican presidential ticket has doubled down on these racist lies after former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump repeated them during the September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, in Springfield and upending the small town that had been experiencing an thanks in part to Haitian migrants.

The extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, which published the regressive Project 2025 as a transition plan for a conservative presidential administration, has also made . But what would a progressive vision for immigration look like? As part of YES! 无码视频鈥檚 initiative, Iv谩n Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of answered that question in a conversation with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 无码视频 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.