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Sasha Pfeiffer

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Up First from NPR
Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

considers this family a model for how to help clear out those camps and keep families together. This is their grandfather, Ahmed, who asked that we not use his last name because he's concerned about the security of his family.

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Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

The mother was supposedly killed in Iraq. That's according to the father. The father now says he is remorseful for having joined ISIS. He pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, and he's now serving a 10-year U.S. federal prison sentence. Once he's out of prison, his parents say they want him to live with them and their grandkids all under one roof.

Up First from NPR
Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

The mother was supposedly killed in Iraq. That's according to the father. The father now says he is remorseful for having joined ISIS. He pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, and he's now serving a 10-year U.S. federal prison sentence. Once he's out of prison, his parents say they want him to live with them and their grandkids all under one roof.

Up First from NPR
Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

The mother was supposedly killed in Iraq. That's according to the father. The father now says he is remorseful for having joined ISIS. He pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, and he's now serving a 10-year U.S. federal prison sentence. Once he's out of prison, his parents say they want him to live with them and their grandkids all under one roof.

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Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

And when I visited their house, I saw what looked like a busy, chaotic, happy home. You know, kids finally getting a normal childhood. That's NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer.

Up First from NPR
Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

And when I visited their house, I saw what looked like a busy, chaotic, happy home. You know, kids finally getting a normal childhood. That's NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer.

Up First from NPR
Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS

And when I visited their house, I saw what looked like a busy, chaotic, happy home. You know, kids finally getting a normal childhood. That's NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer.

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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

What does the suit say? It says that ever since the migrants were shipped to Guantanamo, they've been held, quote, incommunicado without access to attorneys, family, or the outside world.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

What does the suit say? It says that ever since the migrants were shipped to Guantanamo, they've been held, quote, incommunicado without access to attorneys, family, or the outside world.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

What does the suit say? It says that ever since the migrants were shipped to Guantanamo, they've been held, quote, incommunicado without access to attorneys, family, or the outside world.

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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

And the lawsuit alleges this isolation is not a coincidence, that the point of flying these migrants to a remote Caribbean island is to make it especially difficult for them to communicate with lawyers, lawyers who could explain their legal rights and possibly challenge their detention. Here's something that the lead attorney in the lawsuit, League Alert of the ACLU, said to me.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

And the lawsuit alleges this isolation is not a coincidence, that the point of flying these migrants to a remote Caribbean island is to make it especially difficult for them to communicate with lawyers, lawyers who could explain their legal rights and possibly challenge their detention. Here's something that the lead attorney in the lawsuit, League Alert of the ACLU, said to me.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

And the lawsuit alleges this isolation is not a coincidence, that the point of flying these migrants to a remote Caribbean island is to make it especially difficult for them to communicate with lawyers, lawyers who could explain their legal rights and possibly challenge their detention. Here's something that the lead attorney in the lawsuit, League Alert of the ACLU, said to me.

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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

Correct. Those images were released by the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. And the ACLU says some of the migrants' family members learned their relatives had been sent to Guantanamo because they saw them in those photos. Wow. They recognized a brother or a son. And now several of those family members are plaintiffs in this legal case.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

Correct. Those images were released by the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. And the ACLU says some of the migrants' family members learned their relatives had been sent to Guantanamo because they saw them in those photos. Wow. They recognized a brother or a son. And now several of those family members are plaintiffs in this legal case.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

Correct. Those images were released by the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. And the ACLU says some of the migrants' family members learned their relatives had been sent to Guantanamo because they saw them in those photos. Wow. They recognized a brother or a son. And now several of those family members are plaintiffs in this legal case.

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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

It wants lawyers to be able to go to Guantanamo and meet with the migrants, but the suit acknowledges that traveling there will be arduous, will be hard to get to. So it asks that at a minimum, attorneys be allowed to communicate with the migrants by phone or video conference or email.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

It wants lawyers to be able to go to Guantanamo and meet with the migrants, but the suit acknowledges that traveling there will be arduous, will be hard to get to. So it asks that at a minimum, attorneys be allowed to communicate with the migrants by phone or video conference or email.

Up First from NPR
Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

It wants lawyers to be able to go to Guantanamo and meet with the migrants, but the suit acknowledges that traveling there will be arduous, will be hard to get to. So it asks that at a minimum, attorneys be allowed to communicate with the migrants by phone or video conference or email.

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Justice Department Shakeup, Guantanamo Migrants Lawsuit, Immigration Crackdown Poll

The ACLU lawyer, Galert, points out that the suspected foreign terrorists who've been held for up to two decades at Guantanamo do have access to lawyers.