How Do We Up Our Deportation Game? | Lora Ries
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week, the people of Webster Springs, West Virginia ZXZ mourn one of their own: National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom. The 20-year old service member had volunteered to remain in Washington, DC, as part of President Trump’s crackdown on crime in the district, when she was shot on Thursday by an Afghan national. Once again, the national issue of immigration has found its ways to the small towns of our nation. Lora Ries, Director of the Center for Border Security and Immigration, joined Heritage Explains to talk about what this tragedy means and how the conversation has changed around immigration.
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Mike Howell’s Paper: https://www.heritage.org/border-security/report/significant-policy-changes-needed-meet-mass-deportation-goals
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one, zero, all engine run. |
| 0:06.6 | There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely. |
| 0:11.3 | Without a heritage, every generation starts over. |
| 0:14.4 | Ask not. |
| 0:15.3 | To remind the current regime. |
| 0:18.6 | We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do. |
| 0:22.2 | All |
| 0:22.8 | all |
| 0:23.7 | action |
| 0:24.6 | to get back in their |
| 0:26.7 | box and stay there. |
| 0:28.0 | Lift-dive. |
| 0:28.9 | We have a left-down. |
| 0:31.8 | From the Heritage |
| 0:33.0 | Foundation, |
| 0:34.0 | this is Heritage |
| 0:35.0 | Explains. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you. This is Heritage Explains. To say that Webster Springs, West Virginia is a small town, would be an understatement. |
| 0:48.2 | Like many towns in West Virginia, my own home state, it was a boom town of the coal and lumber days of the early 20th century. |
| 0:55.4 | Webster Springs also had the rare amenity of a popular salt sulfur spring, which people |
| 1:00.1 | traveled long distances for relief from skin and other health conditions. |
| 1:04.8 | Now the population has diminished to about 700. |
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