55. "The Right Way": Immigration, ICE and What You Can Do with Daphne Delvaux
Flipping Tables
Monte Mader
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Metro Surge in Minneapolis brought with it horror and conflict. Civilians and US citizens were killed, migrants were abducted without warrants, legal observers were tear gassed, people were held in extended detainment without help. Federal officers murdered without investigations, the DOJ and DHS broke federal law without any recourse and it left people wondering "what can I legally do?". It's also become progressively more important to understand how our immigration system works in the US, how its flawed and what all of our rights are.
Daphne Delvaux, is a former immigration attorney and now educator who helps people know their rights and understand how the system works. She is also an immigrant herself and shares her story of going through the system in the US, one that denied her the first time because she and her husband chose not to mix finances. Here she tells her story, teaches us about our rights and gives us some hope and gentle mothering towards the end. Something I desperately needed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to flipping tables. |
| 0:05.8 | I came across our guest today on Instagram giving some really sound legal advice when it comes to responding to ICE agents or what to do if you're stopped as a U.S. citizen or an immigrant. |
| 0:17.3 | And it was this beautiful bite-sized information from an immigration attorney named |
| 0:21.6 | Daphne Del Vaux. Now, today, we're going to talk about her personal story with immigration |
| 0:26.2 | because she is a European immigrant that is now a U.S. citizen. We're going to talk about how |
| 0:31.1 | difficult it was for her to go through this legal process, how aggressive it is, how hard it is, even when you're doing all the things the |
| 0:39.4 | quote, right way. We're going to deep dive into what's going on in our world and the hope that |
| 0:44.4 | exists for us, even in this time, because this isn't going to last forever. And after this collapse, |
| 0:50.9 | we get to, we get to decide what the future looks like. We get to decide how we help |
| 0:55.4 | and build our communities. In the midst of everything that's happening that's been so hard, |
| 0:59.6 | it's been so beautiful to see people rise up, to see hope show up in human form. And Daphne |
| 1:06.4 | is exactly that. She's an immigration attorney. She's an immigrant and now a U.S. citizen herself. |
| 1:12.5 | She continues to work in employment law, and she's here today to advocate for a better future, |
| 1:18.0 | to gently parent some of us all, and talk a little bit about her book coming out March 3rd, |
| 1:22.9 | Moms in Labor. Today, we're welcoming to flipping tables, Daphne Del Vaux. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you. in labor. Today we're welcoming to flipping tables, Daphne DelVoe. Hello, everybody, and welcome to flipping tables. Before we jump into the interview, just a |
| 1:36.6 | couple announcements. I'm getting ready to head up to Minneapolis today as of this recording. |
| 1:41.4 | We're still working on distributing mutual aid. We're going to be donating |
| 1:44.6 | some of that to immigration law centers that are trying to help file these habeas corpus rits, |
| 1:51.3 | like the one that freed little Liam. We're going to talk about that in today's episode. |
| 1:55.6 | And just again, a special thanks to my Patreon users for your support on this show. Without |
| 2:00.0 | you, it wouldn't be possible. |
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