Brad Lander: “In one case it was a 12 year old kid named Eddie, sweet…”

“I'll be in Foley Square at 6pm and I hope you will as well. But boy, if you could watch what was happening to the kids in the courtroom here, your heart would be just as broken. In one case it was a 12 year old kid named Eddie, sweet little boy and he doesn't have a lawyer, he doesn't have a child advocate, he doesn't have a friend of the court. The judge through an interpreter is telling him, use your asylum application. All he wants is to reunite with his mom who our government has separated him from.” (00:24–00:34)

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