Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. Today we examine how the Trump

administration is quietly reshaping its unpopular immigration crackdown by moving enforcement out of

public view. Plus, we explain how anti-immigration politics is spreading through the post-colonial

world, highlighting how it's

reshaping political parties and public debate in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes

today include Velshi, MS Now, What Next, the Brian Lera Show. This is Hell. And Bold Politics.

Then, in the additional deeper dives have of the show, there will be more in four sections.

Section A, The Reset is Theater.

Section B, Due Process D D Dismantled.

Section C, the Global Far Right Playbook.

And Section D, Stakes and Resistance.

And now, onto the show.

Following sustained public outrage and sliding poll numbers over violent deployments by

federal immigration officers in cities like Minneapolis and Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and

Chicago, this administration has signaled a reset. They started in late January. Christy Noem,

then still head of DHS, stepped back a bit. The borders are Tom Homan was brought into

Minneapolis with a tacit promise to rein in ICE and CBP after officers killed two American

citizens, and the administration lied

about the circumstances of their deaths. And this week, Trump made clear what the real problem was

with that operation, because as the Wall Street Journal reports, quote, President Trump is seeking

to lower the profile of his mass deportation effort, end quote. The president, the journal reports, has told advisors that he wants to see more attention

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