September 2, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Sep 2 2007

New Haven creates new ID cards available to undocumented immigrants and faces retaliatory immigration raids; an impending taxi workers' strike in New York City over a new credit card system that will mean a 5 percent pay cut

Episode segments
  • New Haven's city ID cards, and the anti-immigrant backlash
    National Politics, Domestic Policy, Civil Rights

    Michael Wishnie is a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School. He is defending the City of New Haven in legal challenges to its new ID card system and represented many of the immigrants rounded up in the wake of the passage of the city's ID card law.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    On June 5, New Haven became the first American city to offer municipal ID cards to all city residents, regardless of their citizenship status; two days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered Latino areas of the city, raided homes, and arrested some 32 undocumented immigrants. Advocates charge retaliation.

  • New York City Taxi Workers Poised to Strike
    Labor
    Bhairavi Desai is executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents about a quarter of New York City's 44,000 licensed cab drivers
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has called a two-day strike to protest the imposition of mandatory GPS systems and credit card machines in taxis, which would result is pay cuts for cabbies