Democracy Now! 2026-04-21 Tuesday
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 21, 2026; Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week; Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart; Animal Rights Activists Target Wisconsin Facility Accused of Breeding Dogs for Medical Experiments
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| 0:00.0 | From San Francisco, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.0 | Deaths in ICE custody continue to skyrocket past previous records as the agency has been |
| 0:27.6 | massively expanding the immigration detention system. A total of 48 people have died in ICE custody |
| 0:33.6 | so far during the current Trump administration. |
| 0:36.6 | As ICE rapidly expands its immigration jail system, deaths in ICE custody are surging. |
| 0:46.3 | At least 17 people have died this year, on average, a person every week. |
| 0:53.3 | 48 have died since President Trump returned to office. |
| 0:57.1 | We'll talk to Detention Watch Network, then caught in the crackdown. |
| 1:02.7 | As arrests at anti-ice protests piled up, prosecutions crumbled. |
| 1:08.6 | A ProPublica frontline investigation. |
| 1:11.6 | Immigration officials conducted several raids and arrested dozens of people. |
| 1:16.6 | An investigation into the Trump administration's months-long crackdown. |
| 1:20.6 | Are you encountering a lot of resistance? |
| 1:22.6 | Most have ever seen. |
| 1:23.6 | The pushback. |
| 1:24.6 | They are creating the emergency and the crisis that we then need to feel. |
| 1:27.9 | I'm asking who's detaining me on the fallout. |
| 1:31.5 | President Trump and I, along with others in administration, have recognized as certain improvements could and should be made. |
| 1:37.3 | We'll speak to investigative reporter A.C. Thompson. |
| 1:41.8 | And finally, to the front lines of the animal rights movement, |
| 1:45.0 | on Saturday, hundreds of activists attempted to rescue 2,000 beagles from Ridgelan |
| 1:52.0 | Farms, a breeding facility in Wisconsin accused of animal cruelty. |
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