Immigration, Asylum & the Midterms; Legal Rights & Facial Recognition Technology; NJ Suburban Women Activists; Where Does Upstate Start?

In this Friday, March 19, 2021, photo migrants are seen in custody at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing area under the Anzalduas International Bridge in Mission, Texas.

On today's show:

  • Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses how immigration, political asylum and the border are playing out as issues in the leadup to the midterm elections.
  • Alexander Shalom, senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the ACLU-NJ, talks about the implications of a case in Hudson County, NJ, where a suspect was identified using the NYPD's facial recognition technology. The NJCLU has filed an amicus brief on behalf of the suspect's request for more information on how the identification was done.
  • A wave of suburban women activists -- including many in New Jersey -- were energized after President Trump was elected -- and were instrumental in flipping the House in 2018. Mara Novak, executive director of NJ 11th for Change, and Patricia Campos-Medina, president of Latina Civic, executive director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University and host of the podcast Activista Rise Up, talk about what their groups are up to ahead of this year's midterm elections.
  • Alexandra Zissu, contributing editor at the Times Union, weighs in on the question of where exactly "Upstate" New York begins. Callers share their opinions, along with ideas for how to find apples, bike trails and foliage once you get there.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.