Heidi Altman
- Role
- National Immigration Law Center vice president of policy, interviewed by AP
- Statement date
"fear and punishment"
Source and context
Interview
About this source
AP original reporting and direct interviews, updated May 19 at 1:40 p.m. EDT. NewsNation republication is existing source 364; these are the same report, not independent corroboration. This record restores original-source provenance and distinct interview locators. Statements remain attributed; the exact interview times are unknown.
Before the quotation
AP quoted Altman while discussing the disputed foreign-policy removal provision and the family’s case.
After the quotation
Her criticism concerns the broader use of immigration powers; it is not a separately issued NILC statement or a case-specific judicial finding. The source publication date is used because the exact interview or utterance date is not separately verified.
How this statement is classified
The speaker explicitly criticizes the action or its effects in the surrounding directly attributed statement.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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