Children in Immigration Detention
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm Kusha Navadar, a host here at WNYC. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:17.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:18.5 | Coming up on today's show for the Health and Climate Tuesdays section |
| 0:22.5 | of the show, we're going to talk to a local organizer who's running a solar project in Sunset Park, |
| 0:28.2 | Brooklyn. It's the city's first community-led solar project. So we'll hear what that means exactly |
| 0:34.1 | and how that project's going. Plus, later in the show, in honor of Black History |
| 0:39.2 | Month, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, my guest will be the Pulitzer |
| 0:44.2 | Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson. He's written a new memoir that traces how his family's |
| 0:50.7 | story intersects with Americas. It's called Freedom Lost, Freedom One, a personal |
| 0:56.0 | history of America. Eugene Robinson will be my guest in a little over an hour from now, |
| 1:01.6 | and we'll wrap today's show with a little levity. I'm excited. You may know that tonight is the |
| 1:07.3 | finale of the Westminster Dog Show, where they will crown best in show. |
| 1:11.9 | So to end today's show, we'll ask you, what does your dog deserve a trophy for? |
| 1:17.9 | My guest for that will be the person who runs the popular Instagram account, the doggist, Elias Weiss Friedman. |
| 1:24.4 | But first, a five-year-old boy in a blue bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack should not be a |
| 1:31.1 | national news story. But that's exactly what happened when Liam Conejo Ramos, a pre-kindergarner from |
| 1:37.9 | Minnesota, was arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities and sent with his father to a family detention center |
| 1:45.6 | in Dilley, Texas. Liam did not commit a crime. He is a child who, according to his mother, |
| 1:52.3 | became sick in detention and appeared pale and withdrawn when a member of Congress visited him |
| 1:56.9 | there. Liam is no outlier. Over the past year, thousands of children have been arrested |
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