Season 2, Episode 11: Happy World Refugee Day!
In honor of World Refugee Day 2025, Hannah explores the day’s history, this year’s theme Solidarity with Refugees, and why it matters now more than ever. She highlights trailblazers like Luma Mufleh a...
16 Jun 202513min
Season 2, Episode 10: A New Travel Ban and the Criminalization of Protest
In this episode of ESL for Equality, Hannah examines the reinstatement of the U.S. travel ban under the Trump administration. She unpacks the policy’s legal and historical context, its far-reaching hu...
8 Jun 202512min
Season 2, Episode 9: Human Rights on the Chopping Block
In this episode of ESL for Equality, Hannah unpacks Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s testimony before Congress and the Trump administration’s shocking FY26 budget proposal. From massive cuts to refuge...
27 Mai 20258min
Season 2, Episode 8: A Flight into Chaos: Deportations and the Collapse of Due Process
In this episode of ESL for Equality, host Hannah unpacks a shocking and illegal deportation carried out by the Trump administration, sending eight men, most of whom were not South Sudanese, to one of ...
23 Mai 202510min
Season 2, Episode 7: Revoked TPS for Afghans and the Cost of American Abandonment
In this episode of ESL for Equality, we dig into the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghan nationals, just three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afgh...
15 Mai 20258min
Season 2, Episode 6: A Pause for Some, A Pathway for Others
In this urgent episode, host Hannah Joos returns to unpack one of the most jarring developments in U.S. refugee policy: the expedited resettlement of white South African Afrikaners under a new executi...
10 Mai 202519min
Season 2, Episode 5: Language as a Weapon
In this episode of ESL for Equality, Hannah explores how language policy is being weaponized in real time. With the recent repeal of Executive Order 13166 and the signing of EO 14224, federally funded...
2 Mai 202513min
Season 2, Episode 4: When the Law Speaks a Different Language
How do you assert your rights when the system doesn’t speak your language? In this episode, host Hannah Joos explores the life-saving power of Know Your Rights (KYR) resources - educational tools that...
2 Mai 202517min
