Migrants On Air Fuerte Network

Join Carlos and Karina one last time as they wrap up Season 3 and their time as hosts on Migrants on Air. In this final episode of the year, they look back at where the podcast started and where it is at now, share their favorite moments, and speak on what the future holds for them and the podcast.

Gabriel Vazquez was born in Michoacán, México and is the creator of Traveling Undocumented on TikTok (@gabrielvazquez478). As a non-DACA recipient, he shares his journey about traveling the United States while being undocumented. He has boarded over 100 planes with his Mexican passport without any issues. Through his content, he has inspired other undocumented folks to take their first flight and has helped create a community of resource sharing and joy. 

Join co-hosts Carlos Alberto and Karina Dominguez as they talk with Brianna Vazquez, an immigrant mother from Mexico City who grew up in a time before DACA. Brianna emphasizes that the ideas of navigating family, chasing culture, and growing up undocumented have lasting effects long after one naturalizes. Brianna is proud of all the fearless undocu folks living their dreams in ways she could have never imagined as a kid. Now she is just trying to be a good community member and a mom to her 17 year old child. She has been in her career for 12 years and in her free time enjoys reading, napping, eating, lifting, running, watching unserious tv, and fighting to destroy white supremacy and any expectations that hold us back from being who we truly are.

This month we are joined by Yvette Borja, host of Radio Cachimbona, an abolitionist podcast that audio-archives state repression and fierce migrant resistance in the Southern Arizona borderlands and breaks down case law and politics from a leftist perspective. As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette prioritizes uplifting the voices and histories of Central Americans. Join us in our conversation with Yvette, and then head on over to her podcast to show your support and keep learning.

Over the last three presidencies, the asylum system has dramatically changed. Join Carlos and Karina and their guest Lauren Kostes.Lauren grew up in Connecticut, the daughter and granddaughter of Italian immigrants. She received her BA from Bucknell University in 2011 for International Relations, with a focus on international human rights, and graduated with her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2015. While at UCONN Law, she focused on human rights, with a particular focus on immigration law. She interned at Human Rights First and Catholic Charities, where she primarily worked on asylum cases. In 2016, she moved across the country to do removal defense in Arizona at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (Florence Project), where she worked giving Know Your Rights presentations in detention centers, and representing immigrants in removal proceedings, primarily representing them in asylum and appeals cases. After nearly six years in Arizona, she returned to New York to become Coordinating Attorney at the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), where she coordinates and provides universal representation under the New York Immigrant Family Unity Program (NYIFUP) to immigrants in removal proceedings in New York. In her spare time, she loves cooking, hiking, and traveling. Follow her instagram: @ThePastattorney

Have you Heard of Advanced Parole? Join us as we speak to Magdelena Olivo, a Purépecha DACA recipient working and living in Los Angeles, as she walks us through her migration, living as an indigenous migrant in the U.S and her experience traveling back to Mexico for the first time since she was a baby on Advance Parole. We listen to her story as she explains the application process, the intricacies surrounding applying to the program and the emotions that come from seeing your family for the first time in decades.