#1189 Our dehumanizing, traumatizing, child-abusing immigration system
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 6/12/2018
Today we take a look at the absolute horror show that is the US immigration system. Understanding that it was bad before but has been revved up to literally inhumane as our government makes a concerted effort to dehumanize asylum seekers on the run for their lives.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: To Trump, Americans "Have Kids," But Immigrants "Breed" - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date 04-24-18
Ch. 2: Stories of our abusive treatment of immigrants - Off Kilter - Air Date 6-1-18
Ch. 4: How I.C.E. Propaganda Makes Its Way Into the News - On The Media - 2-16-18
Ch. 5: The Obama administration laid the groundwork for immigrant abuses - Intercepted - Air Date 5-30-18
Ch. 6: Kade Crockforde on how real sanctuary means ending mass policing - The Dig - Air Date 3-26-18
Ch. 8: The immigration detention machine - In the Thick - Air Date 6-6-18
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: The unsurprisingly badly constructed argument of Confederacy defenders - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 11: Final comments on the need to deal with cognitive dissonance in order to support conservative ideas while not feeling like the bad guy
TAKE ACTION
Get involved with familiesbelongtogether.org & follow @womenbelong
Tell Congress to #AbolishICE & pass:
Help Separated Families Act of 2018
Give to organizations like:
The Young Center for Immigrant Rights
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
FOR READING/SHARING
Democrats are trying to stop Trump from separating families at the border(Vox)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’(The Nation)
Keep Families Together Act(Feinstein.senate.gov)
Feinstein bill would prohibit family separations at US-Mexico border (ThinkProgress)
Sessions Says Domestic and Gang Violence Are Not Grounds for Asylum (NY Times)
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| 0:20.6 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:25.0 | about the absolute horror show that is the US immigration system. |
| 0:29.8 | Understanding of course that it was bad before but has been revved up to literally in |
| 0:34.8 | humane as our government makes a concerted effort to dehumanize asylum seekers on the |
| 0:39.9 | run for their lives. |
| 0:41.6 | Clips today come from the David Pakman show, Off-Culture, Ring of Fire Radio, On the Media, |
| 0:47.4 | Intercepted, The Dig, and In The Fake. |
| 1:00.3 | I've been covering the ways in which Donald Trump has been sort of placating the alt-right |
| 1:09.8 | and neo-nazis and white supremacists and it might all be merely appeasement with no |
| 1:16.4 | policy connected to it. |
| 1:18.0 | That would be bad enough. |
| 1:19.6 | But given Trump's policy ideas about immigration and Hispanic individuals and Mexico and all |
| 1:27.1 | of that stuff, it's pretty clear that there is actually at least some policy behind the |
| 1:33.7 | horrible, horrible comments that have been made by Donald Trump. |
| 1:36.4 | And so to give you one example, America first, right? |
| 1:39.4 | We talked about America first. |
| 1:41.4 | Maybe a seemingly innocuous patriotic slogan. |
| 1:44.3 | It actually has its roots in a hugely xenophobic and white supremacist movement from the early |
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