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The Roundtable

4/17/23 RT Panel

Published April 17, 2023 at 9:00 AM EDT

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Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, former NY 19 Congressperson and attorney John Faso, immigration attorney and Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, and Albany Law School Professor of Law, Director of The Justice Center and Director of Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson.

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