Immigration Reform Weakened Within Build Back Better Bill

November 24, 2021 / Rossana Longo-Better / Featured, Morning Magazine

The Build Back Better bill passed the House last week and is currently before the Senate. Some compare the sweeping legislation to the New Deal, a package of government spending measures that helped the U.S. economy recover from the Great Depression. The Build Back Better legislation originally included what would have been the most significant immigration reform in decades, but those provisions have been watered down.

KGNU’s Rossana Longo Better spoke with Jennifer Piper, Immigration Program Director of the Denver office of the American Friends Service Committee, about what immigration measures remain in the bill.

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The April selection for the Radio Bookclub is Go As A River by Colorado author Shelley Read.

This novel introduces readers to Victoria Nash who is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado.

She is the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men.

Her life changes forever when she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter, displaced from his tribal land in the Four Corners region.

Victoria must navigate love and loss while her home town drowns under the rising waters of the Gunnison River.

The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore and is broadcast on the 4th Thursday of every month at 9am. The entire series, including Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub, is available as a podcast.

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