Americanswers! Does Trump want to bring back the man his administration mistakenly deported?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
‘If I had all the money in the world, I’d spend it all just to buy one thing: a phone call to hear Kilmar’s voice again.’
Those were the pleas made to Trump’s administration by the wife of Abrego García, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s mega-jail. But can Trump bring him back? And does he want to?
Mariana is joined by Sumi Somaskanda to discuss the most important trial in Meta’s history, LA’s largest-ever rally held by Bernie Sanders and AOC, and whether Trump’s eye-watering tariffs will go the distance.
Plus we hear some correspondence from some young Americasters on how liberals might fight back against Trump.
HOSTS: * Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent * Sumi Somaskanda, Chief Anchor for BBC News
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, AmeriCasters. There are more of you now with us than ever before, and we'd like to try to keep it that way. |
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| 0:17.1 | Okay, Matt Chorley is still on holiday, and that means that we aren't answering your questions on 5 Live, but we are answering them, as always, in this podcast episode. |
| 0:25.5 | And we've had loads and loads of great questions. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you so much to all of you who've got in touch with us. |
| 0:30.7 | There are plenty about tariffs. |
| 0:32.4 | This week the episode is not a tariff-free zone, as it was in our last Q&A episode. |
| 0:37.3 | We talk a lot about immigration |
| 0:38.7 | and the deportations that are happening, specifically the mistaken ones to El Salvador and what's |
| 0:43.6 | happening with those. And we also talk about a case I've been following involving Meta, |
| 0:48.1 | which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. It's an antitrust case all about basically |
| 0:52.8 | have they tried to abolish the competition or not. |
| 0:55.9 | We're going to get to all of those and much more on this episode. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to America Answers. |
| 1:03.0 | AmeriCast. |
| 1:03.8 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 1:06.1 | You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. |
| 1:08.9 | You're gambling with World War III. |
| 1:11.1 | President Trump's message is very simple. |
| 1:13.1 | We are done being taken advantage of. |
| 1:14.9 | Mr. President, in the name of our God, |
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