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Amy Fisher

Amy Fischer, Director of Refugee and Migrant Rights at Amnesty International USA, advocating for asylum seekers and against immigration detention abuses.

Oct 7, 2026

30:13
But, uh, if you can please explain to our audience what you guys mean by, by de-documentation and how you've been able to, to prove that it's something that is happening.
30:20
happening.Yeah, that's such a good question, and I think it's so important because, you know, so much of what we hear this administration saying about who they are targeting, um, uh, implies that somehow the people that they are targeting are, like, deserving of the human rights violations that they are facing.
30:42
And we know that that's not true, and we know that the people they are targeting are our immigrant friends, our immigrant neighbors.
30:49
And we really, like, sort of reject this idea that there are some, like, good immigrants versus bad immigrants or some that may be more deserving or less deserving because we know that these, like, these frameworks that the Trump administration is trying to use are not based in reality.
31:06
And we know that people's stories are complex and people are more than what the worst decision they have made is.
31:13
They are more than what their criminal record is.
31:16
But particularly on this de-documentation, really what we have seen is this administration make millions of people undocumented.

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41:02
Um, is there anything that can be done about it to prevent it? Um...

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