Our Immigration Crisis - a podcast by Tre Borden

Guests:

• Lauren Cusitello - Legal Director Immigration Justice Project, American Bar Association (ABA)
• Grisel Ruiz - Supervising Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

During the last several months with the global pandemic and racial justice movement, not to mention the Presidential race dominating headlines, you might have lost track of the deepening horror that is our immigration system and the crisis it's been in.

This crisis did not start with our current administration, but it has taken on more sinister and cruel overtones. Recent whistleblower allegations (which include mass hysterectomies) and legal decisions (easing the deportation of formerly protected immigrants) simply underscore how imperative it is that we pay attention. As we take calls to Defund Police and ICE and reform our needlessly punitive and racist criminal justice system it is also clear how much these movements overlap with immigration and asylum reform.

To discuss how we got here, what we’re up against we invited to attorneys on the front lines of the crisis advocating for immigrants ensnared in the system as well as the policy changes and community mobilization efforts that are key to reforming this terrible and in humane system.

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