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The Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Nikiel Pahl Singh.

With the violence of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency escalating yet further

with the murder of Alex Preti in Minneapolis, we talked about Nikiel's recent article in Equator,

titled Homeland Empire, in which Nikiel argues that from Venezuela to Minnesota,

Donald Trump is creating a borderless American power,

collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.

We talked about how the relative shift away from the preoccupation with the U.S.'s southern border

towards the targeting of migrants

across the United States is symptomatic of this collapse of the foreign and the domestic,

and we also talked about how previous administrations laid the basis for the expansion of ice.

We went on to talk about the extent to which the second Trump administration represents a

mere deepening of pre-existing trends in American statecraft, and the ways in which the second Trump administration represents a mere deepening of pre-existing

trends in American statecraft and the ways in which the MAGA movement is genuinely innovative.

Finally, we talked about the weaknesses of the Trump administration and why Nekiel thinks it is

fundamentally unable to construct a genuinely hegemonic project.

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