Elvira Arellano, Deported; Obama Campaign In California; Huntington Park Homicide Case Falls Through The Cracks; The Politics Of God; Hocus Potus
Elvira Arellano, Deported
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials say that immigrant activist Elvira Arellano was deported to Mexico this morning. She was arrested yesterday by ICE agents in downtown Los Angeles at the La Placita church. Her 8-year-old son, who is an American citizen, has been left behind with a guardian. Guest host Frank Stoltze speaks with Michael Keegan a spokesperson for ICE, Reverend Alexia Salvatierra, a coordinator with the New Sanctuary movement, and Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies about the deportation.
Obama Campaign In California
Recent polls number showing Hillary Clinton with a strong lead in the state has the Obama campaign searching for ways to increase the candidate's popularity among California voters. The campaign just appointed a state director for California, Mitchell Schwartz and he joins guest host Frank Stoltze to talk about the Obama strategy in the Golden State.
Huntington Park Homicide Case Falls Through The Cracks
23 year-old Eric Mendoza was murdered 7 years ago in a Huntington Park parking lot. And although investigators have a wealth of evidence pointing to three suspects, no charges have yet been filed. Why not? AirTalk guest host Frank Stoltze talks with Los Angeles Times staff reporter Scott Glover about the strange case.
The Politics Of God
After centuries of strife, the West has learned to separate religion and politics. It's made its leaders legitimate without the blessing of the church or another religious body. Yet this doesn't seem to be the case in much of the world--the Islamic world in particular. In his article "The Politics of God," featured in yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Mark Lilla lays out the relationship between Church--or Mosque--and state in the world and argues that the separation that exists in the West will be hard coming in the Middle-East. Frank Stoltze talks with Lilla about his article.
Hocus Potus
Malcolm MacPherson covered Ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq for Time magazine. Once he returned, he found himself angry about much of the mismanagement he saw in Baghdad. This inspired his satirical novel Hocus Potus, which Publisher's Weekly describes as portraying life in the Green Zone as a "zoo of ambition, backbiting and incompetence." Frank Stoltze, talks to MacPherson about his novel and his experiences in Iraq.