The Case for 'Pod Save Immigrants'
An Open Letter to Crooked Media.
Dear Pod Bros,
You all built one of the most influential progressive media platforms in America. Millions tune in. Lawmakers tune in. Staffers tune in. Half of Capitol Hill pretends not to tune in.
But in all that reach, all that impact, there’s one subject you’ve never really taken on with the seriousness it deserves: the Democratic Party’s long, painful failure to deliver legalization for the millions of undocumented immigrants who were told again and again that help was coming.
I say that as someone who was in the trenches when the hope was still fresh. In 2008, when I was organizing for Barack Obama, the message was simple enough to build a movement on: legalization for millions.
We built “Latinos for Obama” pages across Indiana like we were laying down railroad track. And it worked. Indiana flipped. I shook Obama’s hand in Springfield the day he introduced Joe Biden. The promise felt as real as the sun on that rally stage.
Then came the governing. Then came the math.
Between 2009 and…