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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So you spent 20 hours of every day in essentially a cell?
Alcini doesn't eat pork, so he'd have to trade the bologna sandwiches for something he could eat.
That was the rate.
The people working in the ICE detention center were inmates from the prison, cleaning, doing other menial jobs.
Alsaini said the prisoners had more opportunities to be out of their cells than the immigrants did, which reminded me of something another person being detained by ICE told me recently.
We're less than prisoners.
Weeks go by.
Al-Sani says officers would come by to ask who was willing to be deported.
They would also look for people who were willing to be sent to third countries.
Did you know anyone who got sent to a third country, to a country that wasn't their home country?
Alcini and I talked about this a lot.
He really means it when he says that he'd rather die in the U.S.
than go back to Guinea.
He and Andrea are increasingly desperate to get him out of detention.
She files a petition known as a writ of habeas corpus.
Habeas is one of the bedrock legal rights in a democracy.
You cannot be held indefinitely without any actual charges.
Andrea wants a judge to evaluate whether ICE could go on holding Alsaini.
At the Miami Correctional Facility, things are getting worse by the day.
These are men from all over the world, locked up in abysmal conditions, with no idea when they might be released.
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