Episode notes
Meyner & Landis Immigration partner Lin Walker continues her pop-culture immigration myth-busting by destroying The Terminal, a 2004 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Hanks and Stanley Tucci.
The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski from the fictional Eastern European country of Krakhosia who gets stranded at JFK airport in New York when war breaks out in his country while he is in the air.
How realistic is his dilemma? How plausible are the solutions that the director of Customs at the airport proposes for the "man without a country"?
In this episode we explore topics such as:
What is Expedited Removal?
When and why is asylum granted?
What is Temporary Protective Status?
How does one qualify for Humanitarian Parole?
And how does The Terminal get almost ALL of this wrong?
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