Uncommon Conversations With Maryam Zar And John Harlow

Maryam Zar heads down to the US/Mexico border to visit Border Angels (borderangels.org) and stop at a shelter in Tijuana, housing some 330 families with a mobile school bus. She visits a shelter and helps teach an arts and crafts class with the mobile school project. Support them on Go Fund Me (gofundme.com/f/the-mobile-school-project)! Thousands of asylum seekers arrive in Tijuana every day. US Customs and Border Patrol gives them court dates and they await those appearances while in shelters. We talk to the Honorable Ashley Tabaddor, who is the President on the Union of Immigration Judges and is advocating for an independent immigration court, not one that is housed under the DOJ. President trump has moved to decertify the Union (nytimes.com/2019/08/10/us/immigration-judges-union-justice-department.html) Judge Tabaddor talks to Maryam & John about the backlog of immigration cases, and the quotas/expectations placed on immigration judges in today’s landscape. Most of the migrant shelters in Tijuana are ful