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Topical Currents

Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

07/08/14 - Tuesday’s Topical Currents looks at the issue of  U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security's ever-widening reach into the lives of American citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented. We visit with investigative journalist Todd Miller.  He’s spent the last fifteen years researching, writing about and working on immigration and border issues.  His latest book is Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security. That's Topical Currents, Tuesday at 1pm.

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Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.