[applause] free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now [banging] they dont want to show us the warrant imagine youre in your pajamas and youre about to wake up for the day to begin theyre taking my husband. And they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though youve lived here your entire life. Or imagine youre baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what youre supposed to do you check in. And you go there thinking, then im going to go to work, then im going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and im going to live my life. And they end all that. No ban. No wall these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way thats in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. Weve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on whats wrong. [traffic sounds] what id like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to pick you up. They knocked on the
[applause] free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! [banging] they don t want to show us the warrant! imagine you re in your pajamas and you re about to wake up for the day to begin they re taking my husband. and they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though you ve lived here your entire life. or imagine you re baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what you re supposed to do you check in. and you go there thinking, then i m going to go to work, then i m going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and i m going to live my life. and they end all that. no ban. no wall! these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way that s in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. we ve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on what s wrong. [traffic sounds] what i d like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to
you had people seeking asylum being herded like cattle. we have a correctional facility one of the larger in new york state. we have hundreds of open beds. so we started to think, maybe we could take something here. homeland security agreed to send 100. a couple hours later, they asked if we would be ok with 200, and then the next day it went to 300. we were just really shocked at the conditions when they came in. many of them were sickly, many of them starving. it was very sad to think that in 2018, this is how we were treating people that were trying to come into our country. i immediately reached out to professor rogerson. sarah was running the immigration law clinic for albany law, and she took it on to offer legal guidance to some of the immigrants. we had volunteers from all over the capital district that wanted to help. it was a very large scale legal response. we didn t know that the detainees would be from over 30 different countries, and that they would speak more than 17 di
chained in pens. you had people seeking asylum being herded like cattle. we have a correctional facility one of the larger in new york state. we have hundreds of open beds. so we started to think, maybe we could take something here. homeland security agreed to send 100. a couple hours later, they asked if we would be ok with 200, and then the next day it went to 300. we were just really shocked at the conditions when they came in. many of them were sickly, many of them starving. it was very sad to think that in 2018, this is how we were treating people that were trying to come into our country. i immediately reached out to professor rogerson. sarah was running the immigration law clinic for albany law, and she took it on to offer legal guidance to some of the immigrants. we had volunteers from all over the capital district that wanted to help. it was a very large scale legal response. we didn t know that the detainees would