Know Your Immigration Rights with Maribel Hernández Rivera and Lee Gelernt

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Restaurants. Churches. Street corners. These are meant to be community spaces—not sites where immigrants and their loved ones live in fear of ICE raids. This week, the ACLU’s Maribel Hernández Rivera and Lee Gelernt join W. Kamau Bell to share the latest on immigrants’ rights in the US, from both an advocacy and legal perspective. Listen in as they discuss what’s changed since Trump took office, how listeners can protect themselves and their neighbors, and why we’re all in this together—regardless of our immigration status. Maribel Hernández Rivera is the ACLU’s National Director of Immigrant Community Strategies. And Lee Gelernt is Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. You can read more about their work here and here, respectively. At Liberty is a production of the ACLU, and hosted by W. Kamau Bell. This episode was executive produced by Jessica Herman Weitz and Gwen Schroeder for the ACLU, and W. Kamau Bell, Kelly Rafferty, PhD, and Melissa Hudson Bell, PhD for Who Knows Best Productions. It was recorded at Skyline Studios in Oakland, CA. At Liberty is edited and produced by Erica Getto and Myrriah Gossett for Good Get.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's me, W. Kamau Bell. Welcome to another round of the ASLEU's podcast at Liberty.
0:07.9	Airhorn, Airhorn, Airhorn. Anyway, every episode, I'm asking the big questions on the big issues affecting our country and especially our hardest hit in most vulnerable communities.
0:18.9	And I'm calling on ASLU experts for guidance,
0:22.1	as we need experts to help. This year so far we've heard from the ACLU's Cecilia Wong
0:27.3	and Shay Strangio. Check those episodes out after you listen to this one. They shared so many
0:32.3	relevant insights into Trump's executive orders and the current state of the LGBTQIA plus rights community and beyond.
0:40.3	Today, we're taking on one of the biggest issues affecting our country.
0:43.7	So big, in fact, do we need two guests to help us make sense of things.
0:47.7	Yeah, we're talking immigrants' rights.
0:52.2	We know things are moving quickly.
0:54.3	So for folks keeping track, we're recording this episode on Monday, February 24th.
0:58.6	And as of today, here's the latest.
1:02.1	President Trump has issued an executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship,
1:06.2	which the ASLU challenged in court hours after it was announced.
1:10.0	Communities are currently facing increased raids and actions by immigration and customs enforcement,
1:15.0	aka ICE.
1:16.6	The Trump administration is currently using remote locations like Guantanamo to detain immigrants
1:22.0	who are cut off from lawyers, families, and resources.
1:25.8	Thankfully, the ASU is trying to change that. All right, as always,
1:30.4	let's take a breath. We got this. You got this. And the ASLU's got you too. Ooh, that should be a t-shirt.
1:40.3	Now let's get into it. Our first guest is the ACLU's National Director of Immigrant Community Strategies,
1:46.6	and she's a member of my special correspondent task force.
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