#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
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Summary
Air Date 1/17/2024
It is evident that the immigration debate is more about acquiring raw power than about immigration as demands from the Republican Party change along with whatever strategies they feel are most likely to get Republicans elected and in the age of Trump, that means the most draconian, harmful and, ultimately, pointless demands to date.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Beginning Monroe and Migration Part 1 - Under the Shadow - Air Date 1-9-24
In the second half of the episode, we meet migrants walking North toward the United States on the edge of Central America. A very real manifestation, right now, of the never-ending impact of US intervention in Latin America.
As negotiations on the emergency funding request continue, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Greg Casar of Texas about how he and other lawmakers oppose “some of the worst changes to our immigration system in decades.”
Ch. 3: The Migrant Crisis On The Border And The Hill - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 1-11-24
The stream of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border hit record numbers at the end of 2023. Guests: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and immigration correspondent Jasmine Garsd.
Ch. 4: GOP Bets It All on the Border - What Next - Air Date 11-8-23
A partial government shutdown is just 10 days away.
Ch. 5: The Beginning Monroe and Migration Part 2 - Under the Shadow - Air Date 1-9-24
Ch. 6: Trump Plans to Declare War on Who? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 1-9-24
If re-elected, will Trump dredge up an archaic 18th-century law as a de-facto anti-immigration policy? Just how far will he go…?
It's very clear that we are under attack. … We have targets on our backs," says Marisa Limón Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, which is challenging the new Texas law along with other rights groups.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Fox Host Admits GOP Doesn’t Give A Sh— About Immigration - The Majority Report - Air Date 1-12-24
Laura Ingham gives the conservative game away
Ch. 9: AOC Dismantles GOP Immigration Lies - The Majority Report - Air Date 9-25-23
When interviewed, AOC "...sanctions that were originally authored by Marco Rubio took a large part in the driving of populations to our southern border, shortly after those sanctions were enacted, we started seeing dramatic increases."
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the naked power grab behind the immigration debate and Trump's long-held fascination with Hitler
Bonus:
Articles:
House Republican Admits He’ll Kill Border Deal If It Helps Biden
Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed
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SHOW IMAGE:
Description: A photograph taken during a "Reform Immigration March" in D.C. A man holds a homemade sign that says "Militarized Border = A Failed Policy." Other protestors in background hold American flags.
Credit: "Reform Immigration March on Washington" by Elvert Barnes, Flickr | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Cropped, increase in contrast and brightness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we will look at why it is evident that the immigration debate is more about acquiring raw power than about immigration. |
| 0:14.0 | As demands from the Republican Party change, along with whatever strategies they feel, are most likely to get Republicans elected. |
| 0:21.0 | And in the age of Trump, of course that means the most draconian |
| 0:25.3 | harmful and ultimately pointless and cruel demands to date. Sources today include |
| 0:31.7 | under the shadow, Democracy Now, the NPR Politics Podcast, |
| 0:37.0 | What Next, and the Tom Hartman program with additional members only clips from |
| 0:41.5 | the majority report. |
| 0:43.0 | 200 years ago, on December 2, 1823, under a dark moonless sky. |
| 0:54.2 | Then President James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. |
| 0:59.2 | In his address, Monroe lays out what would become both one of the most consequential and devastating ideas for Latin America. |
| 1:07.2 | It would be called the Monroe Doctrine, an articulation of the United States' sovereign right |
| 1:12.1 | to bend Latin America to its will and the US would |
| 1:15.6 | repeatedly cite it as a perennial warrant to invade foreign countries, overthrow leaders, |
| 1:21.4 | and police the Americas. |
| 1:23.0 | At least that's what it became, but that wasn't the idea in the beginning. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, yeah, I mean other countries have statements, we have doctrines, you know, that's the thing. |
| 1:31.9 | That's historian Greg Randen Brandon I teach history at Yale |
| 1:35.0 | University and I'm the author of a number of books the most recent one being the |
| 1:39.6 | end of the of the language of the Monroe Doctrine, it was scattered throughout this large of many |
| 1:54.4 | thousand word speech and it was very vague on what the intentions were. I mean, |
| 1:59.8 | basically summed up it said that quote unquote the free and independent |
| 2:05.5 | nations of the two American continents were off limits for future colonization |
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