21 min
Family Separation: Interview with Lee Gelernt Children's Rights
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“In 25 years of doing this work, I’ve never seen a policy this cruel.”
Sandy Santana, Executive Director of Children’s Rights, spoke with the ACLU’s Lee Gelernt, who has played a central role in fighting back against the Trump Administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families. Lee filed the national class action lawsuit that reversed this inhumane and illegal policy, and he credits Children’s Rights support of the lawsuit as having been vital to its success. Learn more about the case in this conversation.
“Children’s Rights took the lead in filing an amicus brief that added real heft to our case by spelling out in stark terms that the administration is terrorizing these little children and creating irreparable harm to them. And although the fight to protect them goes on, together we’ve won some significant battles.”
— Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
“In 25 years of doing this work, I’ve never seen a policy this cruel.”
Sandy Santana, Executive Director of Children’s Rights, spoke with the ACLU’s Lee Gelernt, who has played a central role in fighting back against the Trump Administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families. Lee filed the national class action lawsuit that reversed this inhumane and illegal policy, and he credits Children’s Rights support of the lawsuit as having been vital to its success. Learn more about the case in this conversation.
“Children’s Rights took the lead in filing an amicus brief that added real heft to our case by spelling out in stark terms that the administration is terrorizing these little children and creating irreparable harm to them. And although the fight to protect them goes on, together we’ve won some significant battles.”
— Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
21 min