Margaret Stock: Immigration attorney, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, & 2016 AK US Senate Candidate

22/10/2025 1h 15min Temporada 5 Episodio 35
Margaret Stock: Immigration attorney, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, & 2016 AK US Senate Candidate

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Send us a textMargaret D. Stock is an immigration attorney, and retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve. She is a recognized expert on immigration law as it applies to U.S. military personnel and veterans. In 2013, she was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as a "genius grant." She has taught law at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.She ran for the United States Senate as an Independent candidate in the 2016 Senate election in Alaska losing to the incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Today we discuss her life, but also her concerns about the politicization of the US military, the change in the way our country treats its immigrants, and the illegal extra-judicial killings of Venezuelans by the US military in the Caribbean Sea.

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