Episode Four: Bond for detained asylum-seekers and robots writing news - podcast episode cover

Episode Four: Bond for detained asylum-seekers and robots writing news

Jul 08, 201917 min
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Episode description

Last week, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman ruled that the indefinite detention of asylum-seeking migrants is unconstitutional. Here's how that order came about, despite the fact that immigration judges have had the ability to grant bond to asylum-seekers for more than a decade.

Plus, just a few minutes after an earthquake hit California last week, the Los Angeles Times had a story on the quake ready to go. That's because the story had been automatically generated by a robot, as part of a growing trend in journalism.

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