Lee Gelernt

Feb 6, 2024 | popular.info | Judd Legum |Lee Gelernt

On Sunday, a group of Senators — James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) — announced that they had reached a bipartisan "compromise" on a bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system and provide more funding for wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Dec 15, 2023 | latinousa.org | Reynaldo Leanos Jr. |Victoria Estrada |Luis Luna |Lee Gelernt

Latino USA continues to mark its 30th anniversary and look back at its reporting throughout the last three decades. On today’s show, we look at immigration, then and now. Maria Hinojosa is joined by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, immigration and politics reporter for CBS; Natalia Aristizabal, Deputy Director of Make the Road New York; and Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Feb 21, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Lee Gelernt

President Joe Biden’s administration to deter people from crossing the border without authorization.“We successfully sued to block the Trump transit ban and will sue again if the Biden administration goes through with its plan,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU attorney who argued the Trump-era lawsuit.The Biden administration began discussing the ban and other Trump-style measures last year as a way to reduce illegal crossings if COVID-era restrictions allowing many migrants to be expelled back to...