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It’s The Law

Inside one of the busiest immigration courts in the US.

There is nothing special about the building at 606 South Olive Street in Los Angeles. But if you're an immigrant fighting deportation, what happens inside is all-important.

Also: we hear about a child who was separated from his family and put in US immigration detention… in 1930; we meet a feisty Peruvian potato farmer facing down an American mining company; we learn about a proposal to legalise divorce in the Philippines; and we rock out to an Arabic remix of the Beatles song β€œDrive My Car”, to mark the end of the women's driving ban in Saudi Arabia.

(Image: The building that houses the US immigration court in Los Angeles, one of 57 such courthouses in the country. Credit: Saul Gonzalez)

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Mon 25 Jun 2018 05:32GMT

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  • Sat 23 Jun 2018 04:32GMT
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  • Sun 24 Jun 2018 04:32GMT
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