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Just a quick note, this episode contains some cursing that you may not usually hear on this show.

On September 6th, President Trump posted a fabricated image on Truth Social of a burning Chicago skyline with helicopters flying overhead.

I love the smell of deportations in the morning, he wrote, a reference from Apocalypse Now.

A couple of days later, the Department of Homeland Security announced Operation Midway Blitz.

Operation Midway Blitz will, quote, target the criminal illegal aliens who flock to Chicago.

Agents and demonstrators pushing and shoving outside an ice facility just

outside the city this morning. From tear gas being deployed outside a

Logan Square market to an older person being handcuffed, checking on a man

who had been detained and injured.

These types of scenes have since played out all across the country in the pursuit of one ambitious goal, at least a million deportations every year. But even with ICE's $28 billion annual budget, the largest for a law enforcement agency in the federal government,

it still may not be possible to deport the 14 million or so people who are here illegally.

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