Reuniting Immigrant Families, Fighting Farm Pollution, Mowing 50 Lawns in 50 States

Reuniting Immigrant Families, Fighting Farm Pollution, Mowing 50 Lawns in 50 States

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 863

  • Jul 25, 2018 6:00 am
  • 1:42:41 mins
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Trump Administration Reuniting Immigrant Families Guest: Carolina Nunez, JD, Professor of Immigration Law, Associate Dean, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University The Trump Administration has until Thursday to reunite 2,500 children with their parents who were separated by immigration officials at the US-Mexico border. In a court hearing on Tuesday, the administration said more than 1,000 children have been reunified with their parents, but at least 400 won’t be because the parents have already been deported without their kids.  The Fight Against Factory Farm Pollution Guest: Sacoby Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Maryland If you’ve ever passed a large pig farm or cattle operation and rolled up your windows to keep out the stench, imagine living next door to it. Neighbors believe the regulations that govern how smelly and messy a hog farm can be haven’t kept pace with just how huge these farms have become. So they’ve been suing the farms under nuisance laws – and lately they’re winning those cases. What will that mean for meat production in the US? The Republic Formerly Known as Macedonia  Guest: Keith Brown, PhD, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Director of the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, Arizona State University A tiny country just above Greece has agreed to change its name in order to join NATO – and, it hopes, the European Union, too. Why would the name of a country matter to other European nations? Well, mostly the name matters to one member of NATO and the EU: Greece has long felt threatened by its small northern neighbor calling itself Macedonia.  The Apple Seed Guest: Sam Payne, Host of The Apple Seed, BYUradio Sam Payne shares his personal experience with rodeos. Mobilizing Kids to Mow Lawns in Service Guest: Rodney A Smith Jr, Founder, Raising Men Lawn Care Service   Rodney Smith, Jr didn’t much like mowing lawns growing up – and who can blame him. But now he’s made it part of his life’s mis

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