Amanpour: Linda Sanchez, Andrea Martinez, Jodie Foster, Nancy Hollander and Reuben Miller

Amanpour

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Congresswoman Linda Sanchez tells Christiane Amanpour about the immigration bill she introduced and why now is the time to pass this reform. Andrea Martinez, immigration attorney, discusses the human impact immigration policy has and her work to reunite families separated under Trump's zero tolerance policy. Actress Jodie Foster and lawyer Nancy Hollander talk about the new film "The Mauritanian" and the real life story of detention at Guantanamo Bay that inspired it. Our Michel Martin talks to Reuben Miller, author of "Halfway Home", about the realities of life after incarceration. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	There is a reasonable path to citizenship.
0:12.0	Let's all try again.
0:13.3	President Biden is the latest to promise comprehensive immigration reform,
0:17.4	as more than 100 migrant children are reunited with their parents.
0:21.0	We speak to the congresswoman pushing a bold new bill and a frontline
0:25.0	immigration lawyer. Then, since when did we start locking people up without a trial
0:30.0	in this country? We continue our look at a Guantanamo Bay detainee held for 14
0:35.6	years without charge. We'll talk to his real-life lawyer Nancy Hollander and the
0:40.4	Oscar-winning actress who portrays her, Jody Foster.
0:43.6	Plus...
0:44.6	We've inaugurated an alternate form of citizenship for people with criminal records.
0:48.8	How does prison follow people once they're free?
0:51.6	Sociologist Ruben Miller talks to Michelle Martin
0:54.4	about the afterlife of mass incarceration. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christian Manpur in London. It is the issue that
1:15.6	has bedeviled US presidents for the last 35 years from Reagan to Biden, but he is now
1:21.9	vowing to tackle comprehensive immigration reform.
1:25.4	Aside from COVID-19, there's perhaps no more pressing issue on the new president's death.
1:31.1	Polls also suggest that he has the public support. But Congress has not
1:35.4	passed major reform since 1986. A new bill hopes to break this decades long
1:41.2	deadlock. It would reverse many of the Trump administration's
1:45.0	anti-immigrant policies that fueled his rise and it would provide a pathway to
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