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Recode Decode: RAICES immigration activists Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola (Live at Code 2019)

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode • Jun 19, 2019 • 39m

Jonathan Ryan and Erika Andiola, the CEO and chief advocacy officer at RAICES, talk with Vox.com's Ezra Klein at the 2019 Code Conference.

In this episode: The current situation at the US-Mexico border; the increasing power of the executive branch of the US government as you approach the border; how tech companies like Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, and Dell are working with ICE; the history of corporations enabling unconstitutional behavior; alternatives for the government; what would be a non-tyrannical way of handling immigration?; the “political football” of immigration reform; and the role of sanctuary cities.

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