This week on Redirect: Immigration Law & Perspectives, Matthew and I are joined by Dav Odrcic. We discuss "mandatory detention" and the recent Supreme Court case Nielsen v. Preap.

This week Matthew and I are back together to discuss:

The pro bono case we took thanks to our patrons;

Bad lawyers who put their clients in removal proceedings;

Representing immigrants with criminal history.

I think this is a good conversation that will make you think about how the debate about immigration is framed.

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This week I talk with Jeremy Slack, a expert on Mexico and deportation. His next book, Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is reshaping migration in Mexico, won the International Competition for Public Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and will be publish in the University of California Press.

This week I'm joined by Luis Cortes and Rebecca Jamil, a former Immigration Judge who stepped down after Jeff Sessions announced a series of changes, including limitations on asylum protections for domestic violence victims. You can read more about her here:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigration-policy-judge-resign-trump

We talk about the life of an immigration judge, how to improve the immigration court, and our convoluted laws.

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21Savage is out on bond and Matthew and I are here with all the takes. We also talk about burned out immigration judges, caps on bed space, and my denied motion for telephonic. You know we're living in a society, people.

This week we're joined once again by Matt Cameron (@matt_cam) to discuss Trump's ongoing obsession with tape. It turns out our entire immigration debate comes from a movie. Also, we talk to Matt about his recent trip to Tijuana, the new "Remain" program that would force asylum seekers to wait out their claims in Mexico.

This week I'm joined by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick), policy advisor at the American Immigration Council. Check out there great work over at https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/

Aaron and I discuss the Trump administration's "compromise" bills, and a new program that would force asylum seekers to adjudicate their cases from Mexico. It's confusing, and also terrible.

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This week we're joined by former immigration judge Eliza Klein, and fellow immigration attorney Alicia Perez to discuss:

Crappy lawyers. Why are there so many, and how do they manage to stay in business?

The government shutdown. How is it affecting the immigration courts?

Expensive immigrants. We talk about how right wing talking heads would like to discuss the cost of illegal immigration. Their numbers are inherently flawed, but more importantly, they don't actually care about the numbers. Racists were

This week we're joined by Matt Cameron and Amy Maldonado to talk about employment visas, the democrat's complete lack of immigration messaging, and the type of tape used by human traffickers.

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