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Today, Explained

A soccer mom takes on ICE

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Angie Vargas witnessed an ICE raid near her hometown. Now, she's the one chasing ICE agents around Southern California. This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Photo courtesy of Angie Vargas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's a lot of stuff in Donald Trump's one big, beautiful bill, but if you're looking for the biggest game changer in the way our federal government functions, you'd probably want to focus on ICE.

0:11.2

The bill, as approved by Congress, provides 175 billion U.S. dollars for immigration enforcement.

0:19.4

That is more money than most countries spend on their

0:22.1

entire militaries in a year. In fact, that is more money than every country on Earth except

0:28.2

the United States and China spends on its military in a year. And unlike, say, no tax on tips,

0:34.8

people really hate ice.

0:37.6

Their agents were met by protesters in Washington, D.C. last night.

0:44.5

People showed up outside Alligator, Alcatraz to protest this weekend.

0:49.7

And down in Southern California, soccer moms are showing up to harass ICE agents.

0:54.0

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