9 - Borders & Boxes: The Fight for Immigration Justice (w/ Viridiana Martinez & Brianna Rennix)
Hear the Bern
Bernie 2020
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Bernie staffers and DACA recipients Belén Sisa and Luis Alcauter talk about the power of coming out as undocumented. Activist Viridiana Martinez recounts her successful infiltration of an ICE facility, dramatized in the documentary The Infiltrators. Brianna Rennix, a lawyer and Current Affairs senior editor, fills us in on the difference between immigration and political asylum and shares her work on behalf of detained families, including children, in the Dilley Detention Center in South Texas.
The Infiltrators on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6885114
Brianna’s Current Affairs article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/05/waiting-for-the-holy-infant-of-atocha
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| 0:00.0 | Secrets secrets are no fun. |
| 0:04.0 | Secrets, secrets hurt someone. |
| 0:07.5 | Wow. |
| 0:09.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:11.6 | You might recognize this as a line from the office. |
| 0:16.0 | A funny scene not intended to be a spark for any real rumination. |
| 0:21.2 | But it came to mind as I thought about all the stories I heard this week |
| 0:25.1 | when interviewing people for this special immigration episode. |
| 0:29.6 | The thing that really struck me about the stories I heard, |
| 0:33.4 | about DACA recipients, asylum seekers, and the attorneys who work to secure them rights, |
| 0:39.6 | is the power of the truth. |
| 0:42.7 | When the threat of deportation hangs over your head, you live a life full of secrets. |
| 0:48.5 | You bond with friends throughout high school, but by senior year, you find yourself struggling to make excuses for |
| 0:55.5 | why you still don't have a driver's license. The reason? It's illegal in your state for undocumented |
| 1:02.6 | people to have one. Driving without a driver license, always with a fear that you're going to get |
| 1:08.0 | pulled over and lose your car. Maybe even go to prison. |
| 1:13.9 | Your friends are all applying to college. |
| 1:15.2 | But you don't. |
| 1:18.5 | Despite being smart, ambitious, outgoing, |
| 1:21.0 | you can come up with excuses. |
| 1:25.8 | But the secret forces you to paint a version of yourself that's just, |
| 1:29.1 | well, a shadow of who you truly are. |
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