0:00 - Introduction, background working as a staff attorney at the Immigrant Defense Project and IDP, greatest communities at risk due to immigration laws and the Trump administration, learning about the Golden Venture story, the importance of migration stories
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6:28 - Immigration policies during the Golden Venture in the early 1990s, discussion of immigration of various communities during the 1990s, 1996 immigration reform, seeing the devastating results of policy shifts, immigration changes after 9/11
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15:58 - Deportation cases as civil violations, detention centers and indefinite detention, Supreme Court cases, ICE detention quotas, number and location of detention centers, increase in detention of non-citizens
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24:03 - Varied population of immigrant detainees, sanctuary cities, immigrant friendly policies, differences between state and federal policies
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29:16 - Changing immigrant rights due to policy change, increasing arrests due to increased enforcement by officers
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32:04 - What Blaser would like visitors to take away from the exhibition, how the Golden Venture fits into larger stories, rise of community origination
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35:26 - The devastation from 1996 immigration reform, non-citizens’ fear of speaking out, the importance of seeing the paper sculptures in the exhibition
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