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Sep 21
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868: The Hand That Rocks The Gavel

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A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.

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  • Prologue: Zoe Chace gives an eyewitness account of what has been happening at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration courthouse in New York City. (5 minutes)
  • Act One: The judges walk us through how different their jobs have become in just the past few months, because of sweeping policy changes by Trump’s Department of Justice. (26 minutes)
  • Act Two: It gets extremely personal for the judges. Also, the story of one person who got pushed through the new immigration court system this summer. (23 minutes)

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