Fighting for Immigrants (with Joyce Vance & Lee Gelernt)

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On this special episode of CAFE Insider, Joyce Vance interviews Lee Gelernt, the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Gelernt is one of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers. During the Trump administration, he filed lawsuits challenging the White House’s most draconian immigration policies, including the ban on individuals from certain Muslim-majority countries and the family separation policy at the border. Now, Gelernt is actively litigating a case against the Biden administration for its use of a Trump-era public health policy to expel migrants at the border. To hear Joyce’s full conversation with Gelernt, where he discusses the status of the Trump administration’s border separation policy and reflects on national security law in the wake of 9/11, become a member of CAFE Insider and get the first two weeks free: www.cafe.com/insider This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and Vox Media Podcast Network. Tamara Sepper – Executive Producer; Adam Waller – Senior Editorial Producer; Matthew Billy – Audio Producer; Sam Ozer-Staton – Editorial Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Preet here.
0:03.7	In the last few weeks there's been a slew of news and controversy around the Biden
0:07.6	administration's immigration policies.
0:10.2	Since last month, thousands of Haitian immigrants have camped in the small Texas border town
0:14.5	of Del Rio seeking asylum.
0:17.3	Many have been placed in expulsion flights back to Haiti, while some have been processed
0:21.0	under immigration laws according to reports.
0:23.9	At the same time, the White House announced it would raise the refugee cap to 125,000.
0:29.6	Many questions remain about the way forward and about the Biden administration's long-term
0:33.7	approach to immigration.
0:35.6	To help make sense of these issues, my cafe insider co-host Joyce Vance interviewed Lee
0:40.4	Galert.
0:41.8	Galert is the deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants Rights Project.
0:45.6	Hey y'all, Joyce here.
0:47.9	Since joining the ACLU in 1992, Lee has argued high-profile national security immigration
0:54.6	and civil rights cases.
0:56.7	Perhaps most famously, Lee led the charge against the Trump administration's immigration policies.
1:03.0	He filed the first lawsuit challenging the ban of individuals from certain Muslim majority
1:07.8	countries, and he filed a national class action challenge to the administration's family
1:12.6	separation policy.
1:14.6	In recent weeks, Lee has been litigating against the Biden administration over its continued
1:19.4	use of a Trump-era policy that he explains used public health laws as an excuse to expel
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