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Velshi

An ICE buildup, a MAGA rift, and a crucial story about the Black experience

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Why experts worry about the way the Trump administration is deploying ICE; new MSNBC reporting on fallout from the Trump administration’s decision not to release additional Epstein files; and “This Is My America” by Kim Johnson is the subject of the week’s Velshi Banned Book Club

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Saturday, July 12th, I'm Ali Velshi.

0:09.0

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out indiscriminate ice sweeps in the Los Angeles area.

0:16.6

In her order, the district court judge wrote that roving patrols without reasonable suspicion

0:21.4

violate the Fourth Amendment and denying detainees access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment.

0:27.8

The judge added that there is a mountain of evidence that ICE agents have been arresting people

0:32.0

based solely on race, accent, or the work that they're doing, directly violating constitutional principles.

0:39.0

Yet, she wrote, quote, the federal government would have this court believe in the face of a

0:42.6

mountain of evidence presented in this case that none of this is actually happening.

0:47.5

End quote.

0:48.4

The ruling came just hours after President Trump's borders are, Tom Holman, told Fox News that ICE officers don't need probable

0:56.6

cause to question or detain civilians. They can just do it based on their physical appearance,

1:02.9

end quote, based on their physical appearance, which if you know, even the basics of American law

1:08.4

is flatly wrong. And if the person in charge of immigration

1:12.4

enforcement doesn't know that or worse doesn't care, we are in very serious trouble. All of this

1:18.5

contributes to growing fears that ICE is no longer just an immigration agency, but is being turned

1:23.6

into a kind of secret police to do the Trump administration's bidding. Under Trump's reconciliation bill signed on July 4th, ISIS set to surpass the FBI in size and power

1:33.9

with a budget larger than some national militaries.

1:38.2

It will become America's largest domestic police force running its own network of detention

1:43.0

centers, staffed by tens of

1:44.5

thousands of agents, hired quickly with far less training and oversight than traditional federal

1:48.8

officers. There's a method to all of this. They're trying. It's proving rather challenging

1:55.1

to bend the FBI to one man's will, and turning the military inward on civilians would face

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