Immigration Update: Detention and COVID

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

"Immigration cases are death penalty cases in a traffic court setting." Current Affairs editors and immigration law superheroes Oren Nimni and Brianna Rennix return to the podcast, to give us an update on how immigration courts and detention facilities have changed—and the ways in which they haven't changed—in the age of the COVID pandemic. Trump Administration Plans to Extend Virus Border Restrictions Indefinitely: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-border-restrictions.html This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. This episode is not paywalled because this shit is important.

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0:00.0	Hello, bird feed. I am here, Lita Gold, and I have a very exciting, very special, very topical
0:06.4	episode. I am joined on this very, very special topical episode in which we are going to talk
0:11.1	about immigration and we're going to talk about COVID and you might be like, oh, this is too
0:16.4	upsetting. I don't want to hear this right now. Well, too fucking bad. This is really important.
0:20.3	I don't know anything about it, so I'm going to be making a lot of really ignorant jokes and
0:24.5	stupid questions, asking just tons of stupid questions. And you should hear them. You just hear how
0:29.3	badly I get embarrassed with stupid, stupid questions I'm going to ask. Because I am here with
0:33.9	Orrin Nimney, who is a professional sheriff humiliator. Hello, everyone.
0:38.0	He made a sheriff cry in Boston, I understand, today.
0:42.2	This is confirmed.
0:43.4	Also, joined by Brianna Renix, who is the hero of our times.
0:47.6	You may not know this about Ranix, but that's what they are.
0:50.0	It's true.
0:52.0	So, I think we should start by...
0:54.8	I think if I try to explain what it is that you guys do, I would get it wrong and I'd say
0:59.6	something stupid.
1:00.5	And I want to limit how much stupid shit I'm going to say in this episode, because it's
1:03.5	going to be a lot.
1:04.5	So, why don't you start both of you by describing what it is that you do in the
1:09.0	situations that you're in, and then we'll go into
1:11.3	more detail from there.
1:12.5	Sure.
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