Democracy Now! 2026-02-16 Monday
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for February 16, 2026; Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up; “The Alabama Solution”: Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | I came to America looking for freedom and freedom of speech, freedom of everything. |
| 0:25.9 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:28.0 | To be held here in this place for saying free Palestine, ceasefire now. |
| 0:35.6 | There was like kind of a shock to me, because that's not the America that I heard of. |
| 0:44.3 | Calls are growing for the Trump administration to release La Caucordia, who's been held by ICE |
| 0:51.7 | for nearly a year. |
| 0:54.4 | She was recently hospitalized after suffering a seizure, the first of her life. |
| 1:00.5 | She was detained after taking part in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University. |
| 1:06.4 | We'll speak with her attorney. |
| 1:09.5 | Then the Alabama solution. |
| 1:11.6 | I know you're grieving, but I just, I want to tell you that you're suddenly murder. |
| 1:20.6 | They sweet stuff underneath the rug all the time. |
| 1:23.6 | If you're an in Alabama prison, you're probably praying every night that nothing bad happens to you. |
| 1:31.3 | It's dangerous and volatile. |
| 1:33.3 | He could explode at any moment. |
| 1:35.3 | I mean, it's corrupt. |
| 1:38.3 | That's all you can say. |
| 1:40.3 | It's right. |
| 1:41.3 | What are we finished with? |
| 1:43.3 | Tell me. Tell me. Why? A stunning new thing. What we finish? What are we finished with? |
| 1:45.0 | Tell me. |
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