Episode 8: Crimmigration
Justice In America
The Appeal
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Historically immigration law and criminal law have functioned separately. But over the past few decades, we’ve seen them slowly merge, as the criminalization of immigrants increased. Now, under Trump, that criminalization is worse than ever, and is resulting in policies like family separation. On this episode, we talk to Alida Garcia, an attorney and Vice President of Advocacy at FWD.us, about America’s shameful trend of criminalizing immigrants.
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| 0:00.0 | At any one time, any immigrant, regardless of what they've accomplished in their life, |
| 0:10.3 | is at risk of immense criminalization. |
| 0:13.3 | And so making a choice or the standard of excellence |
| 0:16.9 | being so high, you know, you must be a Harvard graduate |
| 0:20.3 | with a 4.0 that's now gonna go like cure cancer with your master's degree or |
| 0:25.2 | whatever as how we judge how an immigrant should then be allowed to naturalize |
| 0:30.3 | in the United States shouldn't be our collective standard. Hey everyone. I'm Josie Duffy Rice and I'm Clint Smith and this is |
| 0:48.0 | Justice in America. Each show we discuss a topic in the American criminal |
| 0:51.9 | justice system and try to explain |
| 0:53.7 | what it is and how it works. Thanks so much to everyone for joining us today. You can |
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| 1:05.8 | we'd love to hear from you and every rating helps. You just heard our guest |
| 1:09.6 | Alita Garcia an attorney and the vice president of advocacy at forward. |
| 1:14.6 | US. Alita has been someone on the front lines of the immigration fight for years. |
| 1:20.3 | And today we're going to talk to you about immigration and its criminal consequences. |
| 1:25.0 | As everyone surely knows, immigration is an incredibly important topic right now. |
| 1:28.0 | Of course, it's always important, but for many of the stakes have been really heightened |
| 1:32.8 | after the recent presidential election |
| 1:34.8 | in Trump's victory. |
| 1:36.8 | You know, during his campaign and ever since he was elected, |
| 1:40.7 | the president has employed a lot of racist rhetoric around immigration, and he's |
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