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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Moment Of Clarity: "Deporting child with brain cancer?! The inhumanity of it all..."

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele discusses the deportation of a U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer and how President Trump was blocked from using the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations.

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0:00.0

And now for a moment of clarity.

0:05.0

A 10-year-old US citizen.

0:09.0

This child is a US citizen.

0:12.0

She is recovering from brain cancer.

0:16.0

She was told that the brain cancer was not survivable.

0:20.0

She survived it.

0:21.1

She has ongoing treatment.

0:22.9

Her parents were going with her to an emergency medical appointment when they were detained by ICE.

0:31.0

And it's not just this little girl.

0:33.8

She has four American-born siblings who are also deported with their parents.

0:39.0

So there's the fight that they are waging at the Supreme Court, Michael.

0:43.3

But they're already out here deporting, let me say it one more time, U.S. citizens.

0:49.4

Yeah, because this is the inhumanity of it all.

0:53.7

I mean, look, this, I don't know the words to find at this point,

1:00.0

because Simone, you know, three times in the lead-in

1:05.0

reminded us that what they are doing is in the Constitution.

1:11.6

It's not a regulation, it's not a policy prescription.

1:17.6

It is not a suggestion or thought.

1:20.6

It is spelled out very clearly in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

1:25.6

So I guess, you know, in the Supreme Court is, you know,

1:30.4

that the way that read to me was, you know, they're putting the onus on the challengers to this

1:38.0

effort to prove what's in the Constitution. I don't...

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