#117: It's a Muslim Ban

In The Thick

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🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

While immigrant families are still separated after Trump's zero tolerance policy, the Supreme Court upheld his travel ban. María and Julio talk with ITT All Star Wajahat Ali, op-ed contributor for The New York Times, about what this decision means and what we can expect in the future. Want to read more?

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0:00.0	The Congress is supposed to be a check on presidential powers, instead has validated, rationalized, and cemented what is essentially anti-Muslim bigotry, fear-mongering, and hatred. Hula!
0:13.0	Hey, welcome to In The Thick.
0:17.0	I'm Maria Inu Hosan.
0:18.0	And I'm Julio I Galoiselle.
0:19.0	And we're on the road in Aspen, Colorado.
0:22.0	Aspen, Colorado. Aspen, Colorado.
0:23.5	We're actually doing a live episode, but there's news, Maria.
0:27.4	There's news.
0:28.8	Oh my God, is there news?
0:29.7	I went for a hike in nature to get away from it all from the horror of immigration and
0:35.7	children and that drama and when I come up for air the Supreme Court justice so
0:41.2	so joining us wow this is like one of the great things about being here at the Aspen I
0:45.8	We just have them. Is that we get to be with Wajajahad Ali at an all-star and we're in person the three of us in the studio. We're the darkest things on this mountain and we're in person the three of us in the studio.
0:53.0	We're the darkest things on this mountain and we all ate fish tacos recently and so that is what
0:58.7	will make America great.
0:59.8	That's like a resistance to Trump.
1:01.5	Like all right you pass a Muslim ban you you you want to do voter
1:05.7	purges you want to do gerrymandering okay we're gonna eat mother effing fish tacos in the
1:11.3	widest place on earth with some of those powerful people and you will not stop
1:15.2	us.
1:16.2	You're so silly.
1:17.7	Okay, I'm glad that we're laughing because actually I'm in a state of deep depression.
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