#1132 800,000 Hostages (Immigration and DACA)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 09/12/2017
Today we look at the combination of racism and cold political calculations that went into the decision to hold 800,000 DACA recipients hostage in order to placate the GOP’s scared white base and create leverage to force through funding for the southern board wall (also to placate the GOP’s scared white base)
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Shining City - Emerson Collective
Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A
Ch. 4: Act 2: These Are The Faces Of DACA Recipients In Danger Of Deportation - @nowthisnews - Air Date 9-2-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Headlights/Mountain Road - The Contessa
Ch. 6: Act 3: The Misleading Rhetoric Around DACA - On The Media - Air Date 9-8-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Great is the Contessa - The Contessa
Ch. 8: Act 4: Understanding what DACA does—and doesn’t—mean for recipients - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 9-8-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Horizon Liner - The Pine Barrons
Ch. 10: Act 5: Clarifying immigrant access to social programs - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 8-7-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Vengeful - Warmbody
Ch. 12: Act 6: Tell Congress: Dreamers are #HeretoStay. Pass the #DreamAct NOW via @UNITEDWEDREAM - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 14: Act 7: The story of Sheriff Joe Arpaio - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 9-1-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: Planting Flags - K4
Ch. 17: Song 8: Midday - Pecan Grove
Ch. 18: Act 9: The DEPLORABLE Reason Trump Ended DACA - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 09-06-17
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Drug Episode Response - Alan from Connecticut
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on the inability for some conservatives to see beyond bad laws
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
Activism:
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- Call Congress
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- Resources (Including Mental Health Emergency Toolkit)
You can also call and tweet Congress with DreamActToolkit.org
EDUCATE YOURSELF
The Dream Act of 2017 (National Immigration Law Center)
Black, Undocumented And Fighting To Survive (Huffington Post)
How Higher-Education Leaders Are Fighting for DACA (The Atlantic)
Relatives of Undocumented Children Caught Up in ICE Dragnet (Mother Jones)
The White House Isn’t Sharing Dreamers’ Info With ICE, But Another Threat Looms (Mother Jones)
DACA Pits Trump Against His Own Administration (The Atlantic)
Written by BOTL Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | After you got elected he said that the dreamers should quote rest easy. |
| 0:04.0 | He said, we're quote not after the dreamers. |
| 0:08.0 | We're after the criminals that is our policy. |
| 0:10.3 | Today they announced they are in fact after the dreamers. |
| 0:13.5 | He lied for the millionth time in a row. |
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| 0:39.6 | Collective. |
| 0:40.6 | Now this news on the media counterspin the Bradcast, the majority report and the young Turks. |
| 0:48.2 | I've spoken of the shining city of all my political life. |
| 1:00.6 | God bless and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace. |
| 1:06.1 | And if there had to be city walls the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone |
| 1:11.2 | with the will and the heart to get here. |
| 1:14.5 | That's how I saw it and see it still. |
| 1:29.3 | I don't know a life other than what I've lived here and I just couldn't see myself anywhere |
| 1:36.0 | else. |
| 1:37.0 | I can't even picture it because I've just never been in that situation. |
| 1:40.4 | I've been in New York my whole life. |
| 1:42.4 | So it's like this is my home. |
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