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# Are you there God? It's me, Yakima.
- URL: https://www.rangemedia.co/podcasts/are-you-there-god-its-me-yakima/
- Published: 2020-06-21T08:12:53.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-21T08:12:53.000Z
- Description: Immigration lawyer Stephen Robbins dials in for a wide ranging chat about life in Yakima — currently the unexpected epicenter (or in Governor Inslee's words, "Eh-pee-center") of Coronavirus in Washington State.
- Author: RANGE
- Tags: Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-02-19 03:03

Immigration lawyer Stephen Robbins dials in for a wide ranging chat about life in Yakima — currently the unexpected epicenter (or in Governor Inslee's words, "Eh-pee-center") of Coronavirus in Washington State.

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We cover the demographic and political environment in the county and how pre-existing sanitation and other abysmal conditions in the agricultural industry might be contributing to a public health crisis in a place where half the population sees not wearing masks as a patriotic statement and the other half works in an industry that is 50%-70% undocumented and lives very close to the edge in the best of times.

So yeah, it gets a little dark in this ep, but there's a labor fight that's actually going kinda well, so it ends on a hopeful note!

SUPPLEMENTS

- “[DACA Survives](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/coast-to-coast-immigration-law-and-perspetives/e/71842321?autoplay=true&ref=rangemedia.co)” latest episode of Stephen's great immigration law podcast
- [Robbins on Twitter](https://twitter.com/YakimaAbogado?ref=rangemedia.co)
- Spokesman story about [Luis Cortes Romero](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/18/idaho-law-school-graduate-who-helped-argue-daca-ca/?ref=rangemedia.co), the U of Idaho Law grad who just saved DACA
- Episode image of backbreaking Yakima farm labor [courtesy of the Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8b27987/?ref=rangemedia.co)

GOOFS

- None because I'm perfect.