Jonathan Blitzer
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358 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Jonathan Blitzer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's easy to forget the fundamental horror of a place like the Moshanen Processing Center, which is that many of the people who are held there have not committed any crime.
People lose hope.
They get desperate.
At least two people died in Moshanen while Al-Saini was there.
Halseni had been detained at Mishanen for four months when he finally had his asylum hearing on September 29th.
The asylum hearing was virtual.
The judge was in Maryland, Alsani was in Pennsylvania, Andrea was in New York.
The hearing lasted several hours, and in the end, the judge was persuaded.
Alseni had been persecuted at the hands of the Guinean government.
She made her decision that day, finding that he was being targeted because of his political opinion.
If he were returned to Guinea, she wrote, Alseni would likely be jailed and possibly killed by the government.
As a result, legally speaking, the U.S.
could not send him back there.
And yet, the judge denied Alseni's asylum claim.
The reason was technical.
During the Biden administration, the government created a controversial regulation that took asylum off the table for anyone who didn't enter the country at an official port of entry.
Olseni crossed into the country from Mexico illegally in March of 2024.
He was sick at the time, likely with chikungunya, which comes with a high fever, rash, and extreme joint pain.
Those, at least, were some of the symptoms Al-Saini had.
So Andrea makes the case that Al-Saini had a medical emergency, which was grounds for an exemption from the Biden-era rule.
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