‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR FEBRUARY 10, 2017: On the Front Lines With Asylum Seekers and Immigrants from Central America…DAPL Water Protectors Vow to Resist Pipeline…Headlines on Jeff Sessions, Black Lives Matter and More



As President Trump’s overturned executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries continues to wind its way through the courts, lawyers in DC and around the country continue to take up the cause of asylum-seekers and immigrants from our own hemisphere, from Central and South America. Today we speak with attorneys about controversial family detention centers”and the practice of holding families of asylum-seekers, including children, in what amounts to a prison. Also, in front of White House, DAPL Water Protectors Vow to Resist Pipeline…Week in Review with Gerald Horne on Jeff Sessions, Black Lives Matter and More.