ICE In Indian Country & The Power Of Kinship

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Relationships, Indigenous, Native American, Society, Contemporary Native American Culture

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode of All My Relations, Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation) are joined by Gina Amato Lough, Directing Attorney of Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, to unpack the realities of ICE in Indian Country. We dive into the self-made crisis at the southern border of what is now known as the United States, and the dangers that face not just (im)migrant and Native communities, but everyone living here. With the expertise of someone who has over 2...

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0:00.0	Hasla Hale, Siayas, Nostalachad Siaz, good afternoon relatives.
0:04.0	I'm Matika Wilbur.
0:05.0	This is all my relations.
0:07.0	And today we're talking about ice in Indian country.
0:10.0	I'm here with my co-host, Temrus Lane.
0:12.0	Hi, everyone.
0:14.0	Temris here from Lamination.
0:17.0	I like Matika, I'm a mama.
0:18.0	We're so grateful to be holding the space for this really important
0:22.1	conversation.
0:23.0	Today we're welcoming Gina Amato.
0:25.4	She is the directing attorney of Public Council's Immigrants Rights Project.
0:29.7	She leads a 30-member team of attorneys, paralegals, administrative staff, and social workers
0:34.2	who serve asylum seekers, immigrants and detention, survivors of
0:37.8	violent crime, and unaccompanied children.
0:40.5	Her team works toward a world where all immigrants and migrants can live with dignity,
0:47.8	power, and opportunity.
0:50.3	Gina has been a public interest attorney and community leader for over 20 years.
0:56.0	She joined public council in 2008 and for 14 years she led the Immigrants Rights Project Survivor Team.
1:02.0	The survivor team provides holistic services to immigrant survivors from a trauma-informed client-centered perspective.
1:09.0	Gina was an adjunct professor in the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic for six years,
1:14.6	where she taught law students the practice of humanitarian immigration law
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