March 31 – Bi-partisanship on Immigration; Shooting Down Gun Control in the Senate; How Gay Adoption Has Gone Under the Radar

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Part 1	We begin with the possibility that a bi-partisan bill on immigration reform will be introduced in the Senate later next week and speak with Angela Maria Kelly, Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center For America Progress, who was director of the Immigration Policy Center and prior to that was deputy director at the National Immigration Forum. She is the author of a new report which is an economic analysis on the impact of legalizing 11 million immigrants now living and working in the shadows.
Part 2	Then we look into the chances of any restrictions on criminals and the mentally ill obtaining firearms passing in the Senate, given the threat of a filibuster by Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. William Vizzard, a veteran in law enforcement who was a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and is the author of “Shots in the Dark: Policy, Politics and Symbolism of Gun Control” joins us. We discuss the impasse over gun safety with a president determined to prevent another massacre like Newtown and senators beholden to the NRA, equally determined to block any gun control measures.
Part 3	Then finally we examine the paradox that in spite of the bigotry and banning of gay marriage, gay adoption has proceeded apace and largely under the radar. Alison Gash, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and author the forthcoming book “Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights” joins us. She has an article at The Washington Monthly “Under the Gaydar: How gays won the right to raise children without conservatives even noticing”.