Good Morning From Beantown

Dispatch from the WBUR Festival, 2026.

BOSTON, MA. —  Good morning from rainy Beantown where I traveled yesterday to participate in the WBUR Festival. Public Radio has played a very important part in my life. From my earliest memories of riding in the booster seat in the back of my parents’ car, listening to Maria Hinojosa tell the stories of immigrant life here in the United States and abroad. I will always support public radio in any way I can.

So when Símon Rios of WBUR asked me to join the New York Times and Boston Herald on a panel about mass deportations, I said yes. For the last five years, I’ve avoided this type of opportunity, choosing instead to focus on “the work”, as it were.

But sometimes focusing on the work means I’m getting out in the world beyond the Beltway bubble and meeting colleagues face to face who I’ve communicated with for years in DMs and group chats. Truth be told, I’ve become a bit of a hermit since I started Migrant Insider. My entire life since Trump returned to power has been lived in the two…