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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 74 - The largest ICE raid in American history

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday, nearly 700 people were taken from their jobs in the middle of Mississippi’s first day of school in the largest ICE raid in American history. Words cannot describe the pain that so many people have experienced in the past week. On today’s episode, Shaun needs you to hear the voices of these people themselves. Because we can’t detach ourselves. We need to double-down to organize better and faster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On BBC A

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I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me

0:06.0

I'm pregnant

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judges go easy I'm pregnant women

0:10.0

I've been old my electricity that's all

0:12.0

don't think I should even be in here.

0:14.0

A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.

0:18.0

You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

0:26.0

Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player let me read you this quote terrible things are happening outside

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Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes

0:40.3

Families are being torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated,

0:46.0

and children come home from school

0:49.0

to find out that their parents have disappeared.

0:52.0

That's the end of the quote. I could have

0:55.9

written those words this week to describe the largest ice raid in American

1:01.8

history that took place in rural Mississippi.

1:05.0

As nearly 700 people, most of them mothers, fathers, hardworking people who were snatched from their jobs and detained in the middle of the school day,

1:17.0

only for their children to find out a few hours later when literally nobody came to school to pick them up. The kids

1:26.8

had nowhere to go, nothing to eat, nowhere to sleep. But no that quote, those words, they weren't written yesterday. They could

1:38.0

have been. Instead, they were written on January 13th, 1943, as the Holocaust neared.

1:47.6

And a teenage girl named Anne Frank wrote them in her diary as she witnessed the very thing that is now happening on

1:57.1

our watch. Let me read the quote again and think about what just happened in

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