Deported

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, David and Rob look at the recent cases of ICE and other agencies detaining and/or deporting various US residents who are in the US 100% legally. David interviews Canadian Jasmine Mooney, who found herself imprisoned for two weeks after arriving in the US for her job. David wonders how safe he is being critical of the current US administration while here on an 01 Visa, and the practical dangers of even doing this episode. Links: Flightless Bird live shows and merch: www.flightlessbirdpod.com Email us: [email protected] News Articles and References: - Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil: https://apnews.com/article/columbia-protests-immigration-detention-mahmoud-khalil-755774045e5e82849e3281e8ff72f26d - Documentary voiced by Mahmoud: https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/columbia-protest-documentary-narrated-by-mahmoud-khalil-has-us-premiere-thursday - What we know about the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/us/rumeysa-ozturk-detained-what-we-know/index.html - Academic groups sue Trump administration for arresting students: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/academic-groups-sue-trump-administration-arresting-students-faculty-li-rcna198139 - Jasmine Mooney’s essay: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney - The Guardian on Jasmine’s situation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/canadian-actor-jasmine-mooney-detained-mexico-border - Canadian woman detained by ICE being used as ‘example,’ immigration experts warn: https://globalnews.ca/news/11080371/canadian-woman-detained-ice-example-immigration-border/ - University of Washington lab technician and green card holder detained: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/green-card-holder-50-years-detained-ice-rcna198044 - He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007/ - Yes, border control can go through your phone. Here's what travelers should know. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/03/21/border-control-phone-search/82594653007/ - David Farrier write on Webworm on speaking up during these Crazy Times: https://www.webworm.co/p/missionstatement

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0:00.0	Hello? Hi Hayden, how are you? Good. This week's episode is looking at how the United States
0:13.9	seems to have taken a special liking to deporting people recently. Yeah. Like people who are here legally.
0:20.4	And I'm just wondering what you make of that.
0:23.8	Well, I don't think it's good.
0:26.9	Dave, I don't know how you, I don't know much about international law, but when you deport people
0:34.8	that are legally in your country, is that like, is that still deporting them?
0:39.5	Or is that just kind of like abducting them and putting them on a plane? I think, I think
0:43.6	abducting is a good word actually for this. I saw a video and it was like ICE agents
0:49.6	arresting some activists on her way home because she had said something about maybe not committing
0:57.2	genocide or something in Palestine.
1:00.0	And there was just like people in hoodies coming up to her and just loaning her into a van.
1:05.1	And you'd have to say that if that was happening in some developing nation in eastern europe or africa or south
1:15.1	america would be like all over it being this is barbarous dictatorship but but when it happens
1:23.2	at home it's more like kind of um sort of sparkling authoritarianism. You know, it's, it's not,
1:30.0	it's not the real deal because it's happening here and it couldn't possibly happen here.
1:34.0	Yeah, there was that male activists that got caught in the lobby of his building and it was
1:38.6	kind of amazing how no one's, like everyone's dressed down, they are in hoodies and like they
1:42.6	won't talk. It is so, it is like a kidnapping. Yeah a kidnapping yeah it's kidnapping when when you're like abducting people into a van and you're
1:49.1	wearing a dark hoodie to do it and you're like sneaking into their apartment building do you ever
1:54.3	sort of start to think hey is this a bit fucked guys we seem to be just like we're we've like
2:00.6	gotten in disguises and we're just abducting this dude.
2:04.8	Is that what the goodies do?
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