Its The Law

Published: June 23, 2018, 1:30 a.m.

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There is nothing special about the building at 606 South Olive Street in Los Angeles. But if you're an immigrant fighting deportation, what happens inside is all-important.

Also: we hear about a child who was separated from his family and put in US immigration detention\\u2026 in 1930; we meet a feisty Peruvian potato farmer facing down an American mining company; we learn about a proposal to legalise divorce in the Philippines; and we rock out to an Arabic remix of the Beatles song \\u201cDrive My Car\\u201d, to mark the end of the women's driving ban in Saudi Arabia.

(Image: The building that houses the US immigration court in Los Angeles, one of 57 such courthouses in the country. Credit: Saul Gonzalez)

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