Airdate: Friday, September 19 at 10 AM
The current Trump administration has deported roughly 8,000 people to places most have never even visited, in a process known as third-country removal. Critics say this violates U.S. law, depriving people seeking asylum of their due process rights. We hear from a Russian whistleblower and asylum seeker who was en route to California when he was deported… to Costa Rica. Plus, we’ll hear from lawyers who are seeing the Trump administration expand third-country removals for asylum seekers within California.
German’s story is featured in a new episode of the Snap Judgment podcast, produced by John Fecile and José Cayasso. Listen here to the full episode, called “The Pencil Factory.”