Democracy Now! 2026-01-29 Thursday
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for January 29, 2026; “Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX; “Not Going to Bully Me”: Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection; ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm shouting. Now. You can hear them shouting? |
| 0:22.6 | Can you hear that? |
| 0:26.6 | They're shouting, let us out, let us out. |
| 0:30.6 | The shouts of hundreds of parents and children detained by ICE protesting from behind the walls of the family detention |
| 0:40.3 | center in Dilley, Texas over the weekend. Prisoners there include five-year-old |
| 0:46.3 | Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, detained in Minneapolis and sent to Texas. We'll speak with immigration attorney Eric Lee, who is there. |
| 0:58.0 | Then to New Jersey to talk to Congresswoman La Monica McIver. |
| 1:02.7 | She's facing 17 years in prison for allegedly assaulting a federal officer outside an |
| 1:09.8 | ICE detention center in Newark as agents were |
| 1:12.6 | arresting Mayor Ross Baraka, she vehemently denies the charges against her. |
| 1:18.6 | Do not close his country? |
| 1:21.6 | Come on me. |
| 1:22.6 | And she's here in front of you. |
| 1:25.6 | Don't touch her. |
| 1:26.6 | Don't touch us. Don't touch us. |
| 1:28.3 | Get on. |
| 1:29.3 | And finally, we'll look at how ICE is using facial recognition technology |
| 1:37.3 | to track immigrants and protesters in Minnesota and across the country. |
| 1:42.3 | We'll speak to the ACLU. All that and more coming up. |
| 1:50.2 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace report by Mami Goodman. |
| 1:56.3 | The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, the two agents who killed Minneapolis |
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