Good Law | Bad Law

Should we decriminalize illegal crossings over our southern border?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Bill Hing, a professor of law and migration studies at the University of San Francisco and the founder of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), to discuss immigration and decriminalization of the border.   In today’s episode, Aaron and Bill attempt to make sense of what is happening at our border, discuss the responses of past administrations to deportation and pressures at the southern border, and try to get to the true statistics surrounding immigration and what those numbers might really mean. Having recently visited and inspected migrant detention centers where children have been separated from their families, Bill relives his own heart-wrenching account of the conditions there. Bill and Aaron discuss DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Trump’s “zero tolerance policy” and rhetoric, the Flores decision, a