Jonathan Blitzer

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Fresh Air · Uncovering abuse inside America's largest ICE detention center · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

bring human dignity to families who are put through this kind of churn.

There's another organization called La Estrella del Paso, which, interestingly, and I think this is also revealing of a general national trend, you know, they do a lot of work.

You know, there are very few

organizations or people who get into these facilities.

I mean, what we know about what's happening inside these facilities is very limited.

It's very hard to get information out.

And so La Estrella del Paso is one of the organizations that has lawyers going in regularly.

It does critical work.

And a big part of its institutional program involves helping give legal representation to unaccompanied children.

And the Trump administration has canceled that

its historic contracts, the federal government's contracts with an organization like this one, and in fact owes this organization almost a million dollars that it's refusing to pay.

And there's an ongoing case in federal court in which a judge basically sided with this organization and the Trump administration's just ignoring them.

And this organization is facing closure, essentially.

And when you think about what the knockdown effects of that would be, it's terrifying because, you know, an organization like that

is, you know, helping so many families.

And so I think about Las Americas, I think about La Estrella, and they do give me hope because of how fiercely they fight.

And they fight, I should say, kind of away from the partisan fray.

They're just dealing with the human reality of this.

They're just trying to kind of thread the needle under the circumstances of providing the relief that they can and the advocacy they can.

But they're in the crosshairs too right now.

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