
Radio Cachimbona
Hosted by Yvette Borja and Yvette · Radio Cachimbona
4.9from 273 ratings
- 244
- Episodes
- 60
- Transcribed
- 273
- Ratings
- 2017
- First episode
About Radio Cachimbona
Radio Cachimbona is an abolitionist podcast that audio-archives state repression and fierce migrant resistance in the Southern Arizona borderlands and breaks down case law and politics from a leftist perspective. As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette prioritizes uplifting the voices and histories of Central Americans.
- Publisher
- Radio Cachimbona
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 23 May 2017
- Latest episode
- 23 May 2026
Latest episodes
60 of 244 episodes have a transcript.

23 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Banished Citizens

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Banished Citizens
Published 23 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, that's a great question, and that's precisely the question at the center of the book. And just some points of clarification for the legal language that I use. While deportations were happening during the interwar period, as you mentioned, the period between 1921 and 1944, at the federal level, right, and have been happening, throughout different administrations since then and before then, the families that I write about and the historical episodes that I document in the book are not centering on the deportations themselves, right? They're centering in what was widely referred by both the Mexican government and the U.S. government um as repatriation that I have um referred to as banishment because repatriation so deportation on the one hand is a legal expulsion of a person who's undocumented who um in essence has to go through a legal process um through a court system, has a right to appeal, has a right to present their case in front of an immigration judge, right? […]
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- Marla A Ramírez
- Vidalina Morales
- John Kavanaugh
- Luis Parada
- Sandra De Anda
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 239 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 34 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- Quality
- 79
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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Who hosts Radio Cachimbona?
Yvette Borja and Yvette host the show. Published by Radio Cachimbona.
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