Jonathan Blitzer
speaker
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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There was a bond hearing to determine if Alsaini could be released now that he had won withholding of removal.
But it was full of mishaps.
The translator kept getting the facts wrong, garbling Alsaini's answers.
Instead of a rash from his illness, the interpreter said Alsaini had pimples on his skin.
Sometimes the interpreter used French words, which Alsaini couldn't understand.
They lost the bond hearing.
Andrea filed a motion to challenge the decision.
In the meantime, though, Alsani and Andrea knew that he could be sent out of the country at any moment.
They came up with plans for what to do if that seemed to be happening.
You had to come up with a script, essentially.
Well, he essentially learned it in immigration detention.
The new American dream.
Yeah.
It's such an incredible dystopian version of cultural assimilation.
ICE tends to move people with little to no warning.
Often, the only way that someone finds out that they are about to be moved is that their commissary account is frozen.
They can't buy food or make calls.
One day, late in December, Alsani's account stopped working.
He tries to make a phone call, but can't.
He and Andrea have a plan for this, too.
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