Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Khalil Cumberbatch and Leonard discuss immigrants rights. (August 23, 2018)


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“I had successfully completed parole, started a family, began a business, was working hard, and was one week away from completing a Master’s Degree in Social Work – at the top of my class in CUNY Lehman College – when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) came to my home to detain me,” wrote Khalil Cumberbatch, associate vice president of policy at the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society in an open letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio published on his organization’s website back in January. In this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large," Khalil shares his harrowing story and tells Leonard about the work he does at The Fortune Society to help out other immigrants in a similar position to where he was just a few years ago.
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