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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | This message is brought to you by the Happiness Lab. |
0:03.2 | How do you cope with life's ups and downs? |
0:06.0 | In her podcast, Yale professor Dr. Lori Santos explores how people turn to things like music, nature, and hobbies to cope when life gets hard. |
0:14.4 | Listen to the Happiness Lab wherever you get podcasts. |
0:18.1 | This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. |
0:41.2 | Across the country right now, federal immigration agents are stepping up arrests as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, up and down east and west coasts and places like Laredo, Texas, where agents recently arrested more than two dozen workers at a construction site, prompting some to flee across a busy highway and panic. |
0:48.4 | And in California, viral videos show ICE agents rounding up street vendors, day laborers, and farm workers, |
0:51.5 | before sending them to detention centers throughout the country. |
0:57.7 | In Santa Ana, California recently, someone recorded video of several masked men in tactical gear arresting a man named Narciso Baranco, who was working as a landscaper at an |
1:03.5 | eye-hop in Southern California. |
1:05.7 | His son, Alejandro, a Marine Corps veteran, described to NBC News what his father says he experienced. |
1:13.1 | My dad saw that a couple of guys masked up civilian clothes, no IDs, no warrant, big guns, |
1:21.5 | came up to him. He got scared. I think it's a natural human reaction. And he ran away. He |
1:27.4 | didn't know who they were. |
1:28.7 | The video shows agents pinning Barako to the ground and striking him in the head several times. |
1:34.5 | And according to his son, Barako has no criminal record but is undocumented. |
1:39.1 | He was born in Mexico and has lived in the U.S. since the 1990s. |
1:43.3 | My guest today, NBC political and national correspondent |
1:47.2 | Jacob Soberoff, spoke to Barako and has been covering President Trump's immigration crackdown. |
1:53.1 | His latest reporting examines the gap between the administration's stated goal of targeting serious |
1:57.9 | criminal offenders and the reality of who is actually being arrested. |
2:02.4 | And Jacob Soberoff, welcome to fresh air. |
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