US Senators and immigrant advocates are coming together to discuss next steps to prevent families from being separated after a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the “parole in place” program for immigrant spouses of US citizens.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
PROGRAM #10489 12:00 PM PT

Immigration Edition.

US Senators and immigrant advocates are coming together to discuss next steps to prevent families from being separated after a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the “parole in place” program for immigrant spouses of US citizens. In other news, an immigration attorney began in Los Angeles a nationwide “Miracles Tour” to help 20,000 immigrants across the United States through free consultations obtain legal status. Finally, detention centers operated by a for-profit prison corporation in Kern County, California, continue being the scenario of labor or hunger strikes for the past three years, amid civil rights complaints and calls from members of Congress to terminate federal contracts with those prisons.

Guests: Tony Hernandez, Spokesperson for U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s Office (D-Nev.), Washington, DC; Alexandra Lozano, Immigration Attorney, Los Angeles, CA; Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez, Spiritual Activist in Residence, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Oakland, CA, today from Sacramento, CA.

Photo: Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr

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