ITT EXTRA: Debating How to Reunite Immigrant Families
In The Thick
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio talk about the work of Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels' attorney...and future 2020 presidential candidate, maybe?) to reunite immigrant families. His clients are parents who have been deported, and whose kids are still in the U.S., so his approach is to send the kids back to their home countries to be reunited. This is a controversial strategy that has been criticized by many long-time immigration lawyers. They also call up immigration attorney, Amy Maldonado, for her expertise on the topic. ITT staff picks
- Listen to the latest Latino USA profile on Juan Sánchez, the CEO of one of the largest companies sheltering immigrant kids.
- In June, this story of Morning Edition showed how difficult it would be to reunite the families.
- Read the New York Times Magazine profile on Michael Avenatti.
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| 1:16.4 | know throw ourselves into conversations that are happening on Twitter like what |
| 1:20.6 | happened last night what happened what happened last night is that I was on the phone with Michael |
| 1:25.2 | Avinotti for half an hour that's Stormy Daniels lawyer. Some of you have |
| 1:29.5 | known that Michael Avinotti part from representing Stormy Daniels and, you know, basically taking |
| 1:35.0 | on Donald Trump. |
| 1:36.9 | He has more recently gotten involved in the issue of the migrant children who were separated, |
| 1:42.2 | not just separated, ripped apart from their |
| 1:45.8 | parents and he's trying to work on getting these families reunited so on |
| 1:50.6 | Thursday at 216 a.m. Avinati tweeted, quote, |
| 1:55.0 | there are approximately 56 Guatemalan children in Houston and McCallin |
| 1:59.0 | parentheses in custody who were separated from their parents at the border. |
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