Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

There is nothing other than racism at the heart of Trump's immigration policy.

He wants to deport as many brown people as possible, stop as many immigrants and refugees as possible,

unless they're white people from South Africa or the nearly 40 million Canadians

he's invited to enjoy immediate U.S. citizenship.

This is not complicated.

Trump is a disgusting, blatant racist, and always has been, who's trying to turn the U.S.

into a white ethno state.

Now, for those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about

45 minutes today includes amicus, today explained, make your damn bed, letters in politics,

and un-effing the republic. Then, in the additional deeper dive side of the show, there will be

more in four sections. Section A,

Rights and Fights, Section B, Get Mo in Haiti, Section C, bipartisan exploitation, and Section D,

Reality on the Ground.

I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away,

and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.

Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers

in this land.

So I wonder if you could just tell us a little bit about what it was in that clip of the

bishop, just imploring Donald

Trump to have some compassion. What was that a tripwire for? So when that clip went viral,

of course, you know, Bishop Budd showed that mercy is still an important part of the American

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