This American Life

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A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.

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“When I’m trying to explain our program to someone who doesn’t know it, I stammer a bunch of words like ‘entertaining,’ ‘funny,’ ‘surprising plot twists,’ ‘true stories but not boring I swear’ … and then I just give them this list.” — Ira Glass

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