Democrats will lose on the immigration issue if they don't learn to message better and consider the labor dimensions that impact the working class. But what of the Un-American concentration camps on our border? A great discussion follows.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 July 2019
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If you don't have a border you don't have a country. But how can Democrats respond to Trump- who is proud of the pictures of kids in cages- so he doesn't win on the issues of immigration? Should we fine employers who hire the undocumented? And what about the illegal Canadians? ~~~ Thom welcomes Zahra Billoo from San Fran's Council on Islamic American Relations for her perspective on the discussion around immigration and refugees. ~~~ Thom says Democrats need to make an argument based on labor to reach working class Americans on immigration. If Democrats can't do that soon it will bite us in the butt very quickly. Is it time to start arresting employers? Connie in Nevada remembers the way Reagan's amnesty and immigration policies destroyed the construction unions, and consequently destroyed the lives of the men and women put out of work including her husband. ~~~ Thom reconnects with an old friend- activist Nina Turner, 'hell-raising humanitarian' and national co-chair for Bernie Sander's team. ~~~ The well-connected former Congressman Bob Ney shares the real stories behind the headlines- from Trump's border policies to Iran's tit-for-tat.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hardin program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, |
| 0:21.0 | truth and justice, believers of peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:25.6 | Tom Hartman here with you live from Netroots Nation in Philadelphia. |
| 0:29.4 | Got in last night about 2 o'clock in the morning. |
| 0:32.4 | It's been a wild ride. |
| 0:35.0 | Anyhow, there's a lot in the news and things that I wanted to talk with you about today. |
| 0:38.0 | We're going to be also having guests just dropping by randomly |
| 0:41.0 | as we continue through the show to talk about their particular issues. |
| 0:46.0 | Dr Richard Wolf is going to be with us. |
| 0:48.0 | But I wanted to talk about immigration because Trump is pushing his, Bill Barr has apparently told him that if he simply issues an |
| 0:54.4 | executive order it will not violate the Supreme Court ruling and he'll be able to |
| 0:58.7 | have his census question which will intimidate any Hispanic families who have people who are |
| 1:06.2 | undocumented in this country in their families or even close to their families or even |
| 1:10.4 | in their neighborhood. That of of course, is the goal. |
| 1:13.5 | Frankly, at this point, whether the questions |
| 1:15.1 | on the census or not is almost moot, |
| 1:18.0 | because Trump has gotten so much publicity about this. |
| 1:20.4 | He's pushed this so hard for so long that he's already scared the |
| 1:24.7 | but jeez he's out of people in this country who are undocumented immigrants. |
| 1:28.3 | But the Democratic Party and progressives need to have a conversation about this and we need to have a serious and honest and thoughtful conversation about this and I'd like to start that today. |
| 1:40.0 | There's a few things here that are germane, shall we say, and Trump is starting his |
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