I sat down today with Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland at The Majority Report to discuss the controversies and context of this rapidly-unfolding situation. Watch the video below.
Your interview was the best deep dive I've seen on the current situation and I reposted at Witness at the Border on Facebook with 18K subscribers. Post is pending.
Simply put, you can’t be arrested and enslaved without being able to present your side of the story and then seeing what a judge or jury decides. It is wholly un-American. Fifth Amendment. And no Trump supporter would ever agree to risking one of their loved ones being grabbed and deported to a mega prison without due process. TGM: https://shorturl.at/QXJF0
I really appreciate your phrasing of 'efforts by the Trump administration to deliver on "mass deportation". From what I've seen, there's actually a bit of an understanding (among people who know what they're talking about) that "mass deportation" actually means "business as usual". Tom Homan seems to basically admit that ICE won't be making an effort to increase the number of non-criminal deportations, for example. My favorite example so far is Mark Krikorian, on a recent podcast, emphasizing that "mass deportation" just means going back to pre-Covid numbers.
Controversial, attention-grabbing planeloads like this might convince Trump's base that he's fulfilling on promises, even if the actual numbers don't significantly increase.
Your interview was the best deep dive I've seen on the current situation and I reposted at Witness at the Border on Facebook with 18K subscribers. Post is pending.
Simply put, you can’t be arrested and enslaved without being able to present your side of the story and then seeing what a judge or jury decides. It is wholly un-American. Fifth Amendment. And no Trump supporter would ever agree to risking one of their loved ones being grabbed and deported to a mega prison without due process. TGM: https://shorturl.at/QXJF0
I really appreciate your phrasing of 'efforts by the Trump administration to deliver on "mass deportation". From what I've seen, there's actually a bit of an understanding (among people who know what they're talking about) that "mass deportation" actually means "business as usual". Tom Homan seems to basically admit that ICE won't be making an effort to increase the number of non-criminal deportations, for example. My favorite example so far is Mark Krikorian, on a recent podcast, emphasizing that "mass deportation" just means going back to pre-Covid numbers.
Controversial, attention-grabbing planeloads like this might convince Trump's base that he's fulfilling on promises, even if the actual numbers don't significantly increase.