Bitch Listen, a rewired news group podcast hosted by Gimani Gandhi.

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Welcome to Bitch Listen, the podcast where I dissect identity, power, and constitutional

fuckery with the precision of a seasoned lawyer and the attitude of someone who's been

extremely online since Dialup. I'm Imani Gandhi, aka Angry Black Lady, and if you're feeling

a little squirmy already, good. That means we're

getting somewhere. Today we're going to be talking about something that should sound familiar,

family separations in immigrant communities, because it's happening again. If you thought that the

family separation policy that outraged people across the country back in 2018 is over,

it's not. It's 2025, and the Trump administration has revived one of its most infamous first-term policies, family separation.

But this time, it's happening far from the border. It's happening during neighborhood raids,

workplace arrests, and targeted roundups all designed to boost

deportation numbers and treat immigrant communities like criminals. And here's the thing. When you read

headlines, you get numbers, policy jargon, and maybe a sound bite from a politician, but what you

don't get is the human toll, the mothers, fathers, and kids whose lives are being upended.

That's where storytelling steps in, which brings me to today's guest, Judy Reyes. And listen,

I stand Judy Reyes. If you're my age, 51, you probably know her as Carla Espinoza from Scrubs.

I've loved all of her projects from Devious Maids to Claws and now her

hit show High Potential. Judy is funny. She's fierce and she's versatile as hell. But what I really

admire most is how deeply she commits to telling stories that matter. In tornorn from her arms, she played an immigration lawyer

fighting to reunite families, and she didn't just show up and hit her marks. She studied the law,

met with the real attorney, and did the work to honor those families. Now, torn from her arms

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