The Fight for Asylum with Bridget Cambria and Tobias Barrington Wolff

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, we know that there are marginalized groups that are exposed. Those migrants seeking asylum at the southern border are one of those exposed groups, and face even more danger in part due to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. These are policies that are intended to close off the country and deter those who are lawfully seeking asylum. This conversation with Bridget Cambria and Tobias Barrington Wolff about this administration’s policies and the case of a particular family that they represent was recorded prior to the heights of the pandemic that we now live in. It illustrates the hardships that asylum seekers face against a system that is actively working against them, and it is evidence of why they are now more vulnerable than ever.

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0:00.0	These battles, they're not about the immigration process.
0:04.3	This is about what rights do immigrants have.
0:07.6	And the administration believes that an immigrant has no rights, no constitutional rights,
0:13.6	no rights to even have a case heard in a court.
0:16.6	This is about, are they human beings or are they individuals we can do whatever we want
0:21.4	with?
0:22.4	Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:30.2	Um, if my voice sounds roomier today, which is echo in the background, it's because
0:35.2	I am not in a professional podcast studio as per usual.
0:38.6	Instead, I am in a secret remote location known as the COVID-den.
0:42.8	Many of us are in that same situation.
0:45.8	It's more than likely when you're listening to this in your earholes.
0:48.3	That's where you find yourself.
0:49.8	I hope everyone out there is staying safe as is practicable and not losing their minds
0:54.9	and navigating the nine million different logins for their kids distance learning.
0:59.0	Which was, we're morning, this morning.
1:02.7	Oh, just setting up your five year old Zoom, Zoom account and their Zerner account and
1:08.4	their kids AZ account and their Google classroom account.
1:11.8	So look, Tiffany and I have gone back and forth on this about the mission of this podcast
1:16.2	and is in this strange moment.
1:18.0	I think we are probably going to start focusing more on coronavirus stuff, but we have some
1:22.6	stuff we recorded before all this happened.
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