Sanctuary Cities Fight Back | How An $89 Hoodie Could Change American Manufacturing

Sanctuary Cities Fight Back | How An $89 Hoodie Could Change American Manufacturing

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Business is about the bottom line. And to make money from fashion, that means you have to make your clothes overseas, right? Wrong. Today on 1A, American Giant. The firm is based in California, makes all of its clothes in the Carolinas and has upended the argument that you can’t make money by selling clothes made and sourced in the U.S. We’re one-on-one with founder and CEO Bayard Winthrop. But first, Chicago’s mayor says he’s going to sue the DOJ over a plan to withhold grant money from so-called “sanctuary cities.” We know Rahm Emmanuel likes a fight, but does he have the law on his side? 1A guest host John Donvan, of Intelligence Sqaured U.S., speaks with Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank that studies migration and refugees.