First They Came For the Immigrants

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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As Donald Trump forges ahead with his plans for mass deportations and Democrats flail in their response, Ninaj Roul and Yanira Arias describe the plight of hundreds of thousands of people in imminent danger of deportation. Journalist Nick Pinto reveals how ICE agents are staking out churches and homes of immigrant rights activists. Intercept Washington D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim breaks down a clause slipped into the budget bill that gives the White House authority to fund CIA programs without oversight. We talk to revolutionary musical artist Seun Kuti, son of the legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela, and hear music from his forthcoming album, Black Times.

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0:00.0	Let's hear Ted Cruz.
0:08.0	They hate the president and they're demanding of Senate Democrats, oppose everything, resist
0:13.8	everything, shut everything down.
0:16.0	So this sounds pretty familiar.
0:18.2	Didn't you say all this back when this happened to you?
0:20.8	Now I recognized, but he really didn't.
0:23.1	That that is a media narrative that you love to tell.
0:25.9	It isn't.
0:26.9	But it's worth noting in 2013.
0:28.4	Green eggs and ham?
0:29.4	Sam I am.
0:30.4	And that's Sam I am.
0:31.4	I do not like that Sam I am.
0:33.3	Do you like green eggs and ham?
0:34.8	I do not like them Sam I am.
0:36.4	I do not like green eggs and ham.
0:38.5	It was weird.
0:39.5	In 2013 I voted repeatedly to fund the government and in 2013 it was Harry reading the Democrats
0:45.2	who voted no, who voted to shut the government down.
0:47.9	But it wasn't.
0:48.9	We should not be shutting the government down.
0:50.7	I have consistently opposed shutdowns.
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