Arrested on Her 22nd Birthday. She Didn't Know She Was Undocumented.

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1013

Today, we get to meet Azul Uribe. Azul lived most of her life in the US as a devout Mormon, doing her best to get by in a sea of Whiteness. She even made jokes at her own expense about being undocumented. That all changed when she was arrested at age 22 under bizarre and very unlucky circumstances. She was put in ICE detention. Treated terribly. Strip searched multiple times. She then found out those jokes... weren't. Despite being a college student, Azul faced deportation from the only home she'd ever known.

Join us as we hear Azul's fascinating and heartbreaking story, in all its raw humanity. And we learn more about our immigration system, and its raw inhumanity.

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0:00.0	I'm sorry which of us went to law school We don't have to work with any lawyer we don't want and that means you're fired.
0:22.8	Why is it only the witnesses must swear to tell the whole truth?
0:30.6	Why isn't the same oath administered to the attorneys?
0:34.0	And there he is, he's nothing.
0:37.0	It's the emperor without clothes.
0:39.0	Welcome to opening Arguments.
0:43.5	The podcast where a comedian takes lawyers to court.
0:47.1	Don't take ethics advice from Alan Derschowitz.
0:49.2	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode
0:54.5	one thousand and thirteen I'm your old Thomas Smith and I'm doing the intro here
0:58.6	because today's episode is gosh I think it's different than any OA episode ever done in a great way.
1:06.0	This is an interview that Matt has very enthusiastically wanted to do from day one of his being on the show and wow I totally get why we're going to be speaking
1:16.4	with someone who was deported from this country and whatever you're expecting out of a
1:22.0	description like that you're wrong out of a description like that, you're wrong.
1:24.0	Like I can safely say you're probably wrong because a school is such a unique person and also
1:30.5	her story in some ways it seems very hyper specific.
1:35.1	Wow, what a set of circumstances.
1:37.3	That probably doesn't happen every day.
1:39.3	And yet in other ways, absolutely not.
1:41.6	In other ways it absolutely is reflective of so many of the dynamics we see in
1:45.9	immigration and this country and right-wing religious entitlement and racism and it's just it's I found that dichotomy so interesting. It's a story that you truly I would have never
1:57.9	predicted any part of this story really at all and yet taken on the whole, it is entirely predictable. But as well as an absolute delight, we anticipated this being, you know, today's episode and we recorded for a hundred and ninety minutes.
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