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Democracy Now! 2025-02-04 Tuesday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for February 04, 2025; “Troubling”: Panama Agrees to Anti-Migrant Collaboration After Trump Threatens to Retake Canal; Trump-Bukele Alliance Grows as El Salvador Offers to Imprison U.S. Citizens & Deported Migrants; Trump’s Mass Detention Plan for Guantánamo Harkens Back to U.S. Detention of Haitian Asylum Seekers; “Fascism Is at the Door”: Trump Threatens to Deport Pro-Palestinian International Student Protesters

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.4

China's running the Panama Canal.

0:22.6

That was not given to China. That was given to Panama foolishly.

0:24.6

But they violated the agreement and we're going to take it back or something very powerful is going to happen.

0:32.6

President Trump has reiterated his threat to retake the Panama Canal after Marco Rubio visited

0:39.7

Panama on his first foreign trip as Secretary of State.

0:42.5

We'll go to Panama and to Guatemala, where Rubio will be today.

0:46.8

On Monday, Rubio met with El Salvador's authoritarian leader who's offering to jail U.S.

0:51.3

citizens for a fee and accept deportees from any country.

0:55.7

We'll also look at Trump's plant house as many as 30,000 immigrants at Guantanamo, the U.S. Navy base,

1:02.4

in Cuba.

1:03.7

Then to Trump's threats to deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.

1:07.6

In a recent executive order, Trump urged schools to, quote,

1:17.7

monitor and report activities by alien students, unquote. We'll speak to a Cornell University graduate student who faced deportation last year after taking part in Gaza's solidarity protests.

1:23.8

My university, Cornell, what's presented with crossroad and they failed with their attempts to see me deported.

1:33.3

Now they have been presented with another crossroad.

1:37.3

Will they stand by their students?

1:40.3

As we have seen the executive orders rolling in, targeting pro-Palestinian protesters,

1:47.3

or will they fail again?

1:49.8

We're still waiting to see.

1:51.4

We'll also speak to an Israeli reporter from Ha Arendt, his new article,

1:56.4

We will find you and we will deport you.

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