Democracy Now! 2026-01-29 Thursday
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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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. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm shouting. |
| 0:25.5 | Can you hear that? |
| 0:30.7 | They're shouting, let us out, let us out. |
| 0:35.9 | The shouts of hundreds of parents and children detained by ICE, |
| 0:40.4 | protesting from behind the walls of the family detention center in Dilley, Texas over the weekend. Prisoners there include five-year-old Liam |
| 0:47.0 | Conejo Ramos and his father detained in Minneapolis and sent to Texas. We'll speak with immigration attorney Eric Lee, who is there. |
| 0:57.9 | Then to New Jersey to talk to Congresswoman La Monica McIver. |
| 1:02.6 | She's facing 17 years in prison for allegedly assaulting a federal officer outside |
| 1:09.6 | an ICE detention center in Newark as agents were arresting Mayor Ross Baraka, she vehemently denies the charges against her. |
| 1:18.6 | You're not closed his country. |
| 1:21.6 | Conish woman. |
| 1:22.6 | Is she here in front of you? |
| 1:25.6 | Don't touch her. |
| 1:26.6 | Don't touch her. Don't touch us. |
| 1:28.3 | Get on. |
| 1:31.5 | And finally, we'll look at how ICE is using facial recognition technology to track immigrants and protesters in Minnesota and across the country. |
| 1:42.7 | We'll speak to the ACLU. |
| 1:45.3 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:56.3 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace report by Mamie Goodman. The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, the two agents who killed Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Preti have been placed on administrative leave since Saturday when they fired a combined 10 rounds at Preti in under five seconds as he lay motionless on the ground. |
| 2:14.9 | The preliminary internal review by Customs and Border Protection |
| 2:19.4 | made no mention of Preti attacking officers or brandishing a gun, directly contradicting |
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