• Title: “A BROKEN SYSTEM.” ALSO, VALLENATO MASTER.
• Guest: Marielena Hincapié
• Additional Guests: Isaac Carrillo
• Host: Samuel Orozco
• Date: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5. 2009.
• Description: “A BROKEN SYSTEM.” An immigrant-rights group investigated the rapidly-growing immigrant detention system and found that the conditions in which immigrant detainees are held are as bad or worse than those faced by imprisoned criminals. Immigrants have no a
• Genre: News
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Program Number: 5853
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 5853
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Immigration, Art and Culture
• Year: 2009
• Program Name: la_090805_0.mp3
• Length: 61:08 minutes (55.98 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

“A BROKEN SYSTEM.” An immigrant-rights group investigated the rapidly-growing immigrant detention system and found that the conditions in which immigrant detainees are held are as bad or worse than those faced by imprisoned criminals. Immigrants have no access to legal advice or due process. The leader of the sponsoring group talks about this report (“A Broken System”) and other current affairs.

Guest:

Attorney Marielena Hincapié, Executive director, National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA, www.nilc.org

ALSO, VALLENATO MASTER. This is a conversation with Colombian singer and composer Isaac Carrillo, a master of the Vallenato music tradition. Carrillo recently performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC as the lead singer for “Estrellas del Vallenato,” an ensemble from Valledupar, city known as the cradle of vallenato music.

Guest:

Maestro Isaac Carrillo, Singer and composer, Estrellas del Vallenato, Valledupar, Colombia. www.folkways.si.edu