Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news. Now, folks, we all are familiar with the phrase Fafo by this point FA, FO, those letters which stand for F-A-Round and find out the F-A-Round, you know what it means. And you will often hear me drop a good F-bomb on these airways, but I try not to do it in the intro to an episode because, you know, I like to give your, your ears some grace before we lead up into the F-bomb dropping. However, the fofo reality that we all

knew was coming when we saw the election results in November of 2024, it appears to be making

its way to not just our newsreels, but it's also making its way to our grocery stores. And that matters

because half the food that we get in the grocery stores, at least half the food we get in our

grocery stores, in some way, shape, or form is connected to the work done by people who are

bearing the brunt of the ice raids and the targeted approach to immigration reform that is quite frankly riddled in violence

and chaos and has nothing to do with an actual legislative platform because when we did have

the capacity to have legislation that was going to help create either a pathway to citizenship

or some other sort of holistic program for immigrants to follow so that they would be able to

establish their presence in the country here legally. You remember what happened? That was just last year. Donald Trump called the Republicans and said, don't do this, even though it was the best deal of Republicans had been able to hammer out and force the Democrats to accept. Donald Trump was like, nah, son, don't get rid of immigration as an issue. And if you pass this legislation and it resolves immigration, then I'm not going to be able to run on it during the campaign. And so even though the Republicans told us that the reason we needed to fix immigration was because of fentanyl flooding in our streets and violence flooding the streets, it wasn't quite enough fentanyl and violence flooding our streets as attributed to immigrant populations that would make the Republicans actually want to vote yes on the legislation that they argued for that they designed that was supposed to resolve this issue in the first place.

But like much of what we're dealing with right now, that's yesterday's news.

It just so happens that yesterday's news also impacts where we are today.

And so today we are beginning to really get a good understanding as to the significance of the impact that the ICE raids are having today. And so today, we are beginning to really get a good understanding as to the significance

of the impact that the ice raids are having on the migrant communities and what that is going

to mean for all of us. Now, we are in a moment right now where the news is picking up on these

stories in some pretty significant ways. And ABC News actually had a clip that talked about what happened in Los Angeles

in the days immediately following the ice raids at one of their local markets. And this market

is a significant one because it provides not only food for the residents who come there to buy

groceries and produce, it also provides foods directly to the restaurant community. And you can hear from the

conversation that they have in the clip, just how big of a deal that is. Let's take a listen.

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