Give a Little Whistle
3/8/20261 hr 2 min
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
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Prologue: Two lawyers dive into the details of what they’ve witnessed behind the scenes in different parts of the immigration system. (2 minutes)Act One: Former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank explains the chaos and dysfunction he observed at an ICE training academy, which led him to whistleblow to Congress two weeks ago. (12 minutes)Act Two: A federal judge orders the government to immed...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:01
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Ira Glass· Host0:35
Okay, we're in.
Speaker 00:36
Digging for an old recording in a storage space with seventy boxes of old tapes.
Ira Glass· Host0:41
[laughs] Oh, my God.
Speaker 00:43
And as luck would have it- I can't believe it.
Ira Glass· Host0:45
This is the one, two, three. This is the fourth box I'm opening, and literally right here. I think this is exactly what I was looking for.
Speaker 00:54
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Ira Glass· Host1:04
Okay, I really am stunned.
Speaker 01:06
That link is also in the show notes of this episode. Thanks.
Speaker 21:10
First floor.
Ira Glass· Host1:12
Immigration officials have been doing a lot of things lately that seem very hard to explain. Ignoring court orders, shooting civilians. And when asked why these things are happening, as we've all seen, uh, we don't exactly get a frank