Immigrant Rights are Human Rights
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Immigrants are a huge part of what makes America…America. And in recent months, we’ve seen an increasing number of  immigrants arrive at our southern border, many of them fleeing violence and persecution to claim asylum in the United States. A’shanti speaks with immigration attorney Katherine Ventura of the Capital Area Immigrant Rights (CAIR) Coalition about the complexities of doing her job in a country that denies the humanity and rights of so many immigrants. They talk about Title 42 and the “Remain in Mexico” policy and discuss the reasons  immigrants need AND deserve legal representation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Hey, Brown Girls, it's Ashanti, hosts of the Brown Girls' Guide to Politics. |
| 1:02.0 | Today, we're talking about immigration. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm so excited to introduce you to today's guest, Catherine Ventura, an immigration attorney. |
| 1:12.8 | She works at the Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition, also known as the CARE Coalition, |
| 1:19.6 | here in Washington, D.C. I wanted to talk to Catherine because as an immigrant herself, |
| 1:25.5 | she helps detained immigrants in difficult legal proceedings. |
| 1:30.2 | Immigrants in detention are often expected to represent themselves and are not granted the right |
| 1:35.2 | to legal counsel. Catherine works to broach this gap by representing detainees whose rights |
| 1:41.6 | in humanity are so often denied. |
| 1:51.4 | Before we hear from Catherine, I'm joined by Alex John Burns, a member of the BGG production team to chat about one of the biggest immigration stories in the news today. |
| 1:56.0 | Hi, Alex. |
| 1:57.2 | Hi, Ashanti. |
| 1:58.5 | You may not know this, but I actually was an intern at Care Coalition a few years back, |
| 2:04.0 | so I'm pretty familiar with a lot of the work that they do. I volunteered with a few immigration |
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