Hassan Ahmad likes figuring things out, solving puzzles.

Yeah, I guess I'm a bit of a fixer.

You know, I like to try to figure out what the reason is behind something and understand, like, the patterns.

I mean, at the end of the day, I think...

He speaks eight languages, like French and Spanish, but also Urdu, Mandarin, a little

Cantonese on the side.

I am, I can do business in them, yeah.

If you can recognize the patterns, then you can speak the language.

Looking for patterns helps to sign out in his day job as an immigration lawyer.

He says, getting people into this country, making sure they can stay, it's gotten harder over the last few years.

It started decades ago. Got much worse after 9-11.

Worse again after Donald Trump's election.

And it was that election that made Hassan want to figure out why his job was getting so hard.

It started when he saw this photo. Do you remember that picture of Chris Kolbach right after the election?

He was standing with then-President-elect Trump.

At the time, Trump was meeting with potential cabinet members at his New Jersey estate, shaking

hands with him at the front door. Chris Kobach was there, making the case that he should run the Department

of Homeland Security. And he was advising him on immigration policy for the upcoming administration.

This is like November of 2016. And he forgot to put his strategic plan into his leather folder and you could zoom in

on the page, on the picture, and you could read half the words on the page. I don't know if you

recall that or not.

Kobach's plan included notes about rapidly building a border wall and reducing the intake of

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