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Deadline: White House

“A chilling effect”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, with nearly 1,000 arrests made this past weekend, the president’s overnight firing of more than a dozen inspectors general, and the rise of far-right parties across Europe 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, supported by one of the world’s richest and most influential men: Elon Musk. Joined by: Rep. Jason Crow, Jacob Soboroff, Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal, Eddie Glaude, Anne Applebaum, Tim Miller, Vaughn Hillyard, Harry Litman, Mike Schmidt, Julie Tsirkin, and Dr. Kavita Patel.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. Happy Monday. It's four o'clock in New York. As we come on the air, the old saying,

0:12.5

elections have consequences is playing out in very real time in a very real way in cities all

0:18.7

across our country as the Trump administration makes good

0:22.0

on one of Trump's most controversial campaign promises, a promise that was immortalized

0:27.6

in that sea of signs at the Republican National Convention, mass deportations now.

0:33.5

One week into Trump's second term, it's no longer an abstract idea or controversial campaign

0:39.1

promise or even a convention sign. The deportations are underway. Over the weekend, we saw

0:44.6

them in cities like Chicago. A city Trump's borders are, Tom Holman, has repeatedly taunted,

0:51.1

calling Chicago ground zero for mass deportations. In all, ICE made 956 arrests on

0:57.9

Sunday in Chicago and around the country, quote, the largest single-day number to date by the Trump

1:03.8

administration and at least 2,681 arrest since his inauguration last Monday. Those numbers may or may not tell the whole story.

1:14.1

It is an open question how Trump's mass deportations will ultimately stack up against

1:19.7

previous administrations.

1:21.2

But one thing that is not an open question, one thing we don't have to wonder about,

1:26.5

is how it feels if you were undocumented

1:29.6

in America right now, or even if you worry that you could be mistaken for being undocumented

1:36.2

because of the color of your skin or your name. This is the headline out of Chicago, quote,

1:41.8

We are terrified. The New York Times spoke with one man,

1:45.8

a man who was born in this country, who said this, quote, I can tell you that even for those

1:50.9

of us who are citizens or have a green card, there's fear. I'm scared myself, not that I'll be

1:56.9

deported because I was born here, but I'm scared that I may get scooped up in a mass

2:01.7

arrest. That fear of mass arrest and disorientation and uncertainty is not an unintended

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