This episode of the Deep Dive features Part 2 of my interview with Maria Gonzalez-Alvarez, which was conducted on July 4, 2024. Maria is a community organizer for the Des Moines-based Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice and the co-founder of Immigrant Allies of Marshalltown, Iowa. Marshalltown is a racial and ethnically diverse town of about 28,000. Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice (MMJ) is a state-wide, membership-based legal service and advocacy organization led by immigrants and refugees. Immigrant Allies in Marshalltown is an organization that seeks to empower undocumented immigrants and strengthen the local community through education, advocacy, events, actions and collaboration. Maria and I and examined how certain politicians have used fearmongering rhetoric to push an immigration agenda that is hostile to undocumented immigrants. We also look at how some politicians have weaponized individual crimes by people who happen to be undocumented to otherize and demonize undocumented immigrants as a whole. I wanted to this interview with Maria to encourage people to not let the immigration debate be hijacked by those pushing the politics of fear over the politics of compassion and reasonable dialogue.