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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So top officials set a target for ICE, 3,000 arrests a day nationwide, well beyond what the agency was capable of.
A week after that, ICE appears to have given agents the green light to start arresting people at immigration courts.
The administration also issued a directive to immigration judges, telling them to dismiss cases on the spot without hearing evidence or putting decisions in writing.
The idea was to set people up.
Someone shows up for court.
The judge dismisses the case straight away.
ICE officers are waiting outside to detain and deport them.
Alsani is caught up in all of this, and after two days in a holding cell with virtually no food, he's sent to a detention center in Pennsylvania.
He's desperate to find legal help, and he comes across a list of pro bono law offices.
It's alphabetical.
Cala is near the top.
He calls the number, and in his very limited English says he's from Guinea.
Cala mainly works with Central Americans, but as he's explaining his situation, one of the staff attorneys, Andrea Nunes, hears his last name and recognizes where he's from.
Andrea worked with Fulani people before she was at CALA.
She knows about the government violence that followed a coup in Guinea in 2021.
So you guys have this follow-up conversation with an interpreter.
Yes.
Is that when you start to really get a kind of fuller command of the details of his case?
Yeah.
Your lawyer brain must be going now, and you must be thinking, wow, this guy's actually got a pretty strong asylum claim.
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