#1517 Reverse Freedom Rides (Human Trafficking Asylum Seekers)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 9/30/2022
Today, we take a look at the attention-grabbing stunt of transporting asylum seekers from Texas to Martha's Vineyard and other politically-liberal destinations and the White supremacist inspirations for this policy.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: DeSantis, Fox News, and the Martha's Vineyard 'Stunt' - On the Media - Air Date 9-23-22
Philip Bump [@pbump], national correspondent The Washington Post, on the manipulative plan for 48 Venuzulean migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard.
Ch. 2: DeSantis' kidnapping 'stunt' - The BradCast - Air Date 9-19-22
New documents show that the asylum-seekers were lured onto the flights with false promises, providing hard documentary evidence that DeSantis' obscene political stunt may have violated the law.
This week, we're taking a look at the cruelty and shamelessness of when Ron DeSantis human trafficked a bunch of migrants to Martha's Vineyard. This did not go how the GOP thought it would, so they spent the last few weeks lying and pretending it did.
Taylor Levy talks about the situation on the border as one of the most knowledgable attorneys when it comes to what is actually happening on the U.S./Mexico border.
Professor Mwalim Peters, recounts the little-known story of the Reverse Freedom Rides and says the strategy to humiliate liberals is "basically identical to what's happening now in Martha's Vineyard".
Ch. 6: Immigration Defining Us and Them - Now & Then - Air Date 9-27-22
Heather and Joanne discuss the politics and prejudices surrounding the two 1790s Naturalization Laws, the Immigration Act of 1924, the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, and the current Republican rhetoric about migrants at the Southern border.
Professor Mwalim Peters, recounts the little-known story of the Reverse Freedom Rides and says the strategy to humiliate liberals is "basically identical to what's happening now in Martha's Vineyard".
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Immigration Defining Us and Them Part 2 - Now & Then - Air Date 9-27-22
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on how laws are used to manipulate our sense of justice to support injustice
TAKE ACTION!
National Immigrant Justice Center (specific call for donations to help those being trafficked)
National Immigration Law Center
Chicago: City of Chicago "Donation and Volunteer Support for New Arrivals from Texas"
New York: South Bronx Mutual Aid (Seeking lawyers, mental health professionals, etc. for migrants)
Washington, DC: Sanctuary DMV's "Texas Migrant Solidarity Donation and Volunteer Links"
Inside The Local Mutual Aid Effort Supporting The Migrants Texas Bused To D.C. (DCist, May 2022)
Curated by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman
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Description: The words “The Cruelty is the Point” are overlayed on a black and white image of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ face in a black vignette.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:06.9 | take a look at the attention-grabbing stunt of transporting asylum seekers from Texas, |
| 0:12.0 | to Martha's Vineyard and other politically liberal destinations, and the white supremacist |
| 0:16.9 | inspirations for this policy. |
| 0:19.5 | Clips today are from On the Media, the Bradcast, some more news, redirect democracy now, |
| 0:26.3 | and then with an additional members only clip from now and then, and stay tuned at the |
| 0:31.6 | end of the show for my take on the structural nature of demonizing and mistreating immigrants. |
| 0:38.0 | The escalation in the political fight over immigration, dozens of apparent migrants landed |
| 0:49.0 | by charter flight on a rocky island in the Atlantic. |
| 0:51.4 | Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, this was yesterday. |
| 0:53.4 | On Tuesday, Venezuela and migrants flown to the small, wealthy vacation island, sued |
| 0:58.8 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for engaging in a duplicitous scheme to relocate them. |
| 1:05.2 | An attorney who's representing some of the migrants who landed in Martha's Vineyard |
| 1:09.6 | claimed that they were purposefully deceived. |
| 1:12.8 | The migrants were misled about where they were being taken and what would be provided when |
| 1:18.3 | they arrived. |
| 1:19.3 | DeSantis has admitted to his involvement in the scheme, but has reiterated that. |
| 1:24.6 | It was clearly voluntary and all the other nonsensory hearing, it's just not true, and why |
| 1:29.7 | wouldn't they want to go given where they were? |
| 1:32.6 | Philip Bump, National correspondent for the Washington Post, suggests that DeSantis may |
| 1:38.0 | have taken some inspiration from Tucker Carlson's segment back in late July. |
| 1:43.4 | Has got to be Martha's Vineyard. |
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