ICE is Detaining Holocaust Survivors

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Brad takes listeners through two heartbreaking stories that reveal how religion, immigration policy, and selective notions of freedom collide in today’s political climate. He first looks at the attempted deportation of a Holocaust survivor born in a refugee camp after World War Two who has lived in the United States for decades. Brad shares details about the survivor's health struggles, the harsh conditions he has faced in detention, and what his case says about the cruelty baked into ICE’s approach to long-term residents. He then turns to an incident at the Broadview facility in Chicago, where clergy were suddenly told they could not pray for or with detainees. The conversation digs into religious liberty, the right to worship, and the way vulnerable people are denied both care and dignity inside these facilities. Throughout the episode, Brad connects these cases to larger themes of religious populism, civil liberties, and the uneven ways religious freedom gets applied in America. He contrasts the peaceful interfaith protests at Broadview with the violence of January 6th and reflects on who gets labeled as a threat when faith enters the public square. Brad also shares updates about the future of the show, including a redesigned website, new ways to connect, and expanded content for subscribers that digs into the shifting MAGA coalition and early positioning for the 2028 presidential race. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Subscribe to American Exceptionalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundy Axis Moondy I'm gonna be. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:31.4	I'm Bradenishi.
0:32.6	Great to be with you today.
0:34.2	I'm going to talk today about two distressing cases related to ice and religion. One is about
0:39.1	the attempted deportation of a Holocaust survivor and the other is about preventing clergy
0:44.4	from praying for those who are detained at an ICE facility. Also for subscribers, got bonus
0:52.7	content today about the ways that MAGA folks are looking past Trump and you're seeing the cracks in the coalition because people are starting to announce that they are running for president and openly breaking with Trump, something that seemed unthinkable just a couple of months ago.
1:10.1	And so I want to highlight that and really zero in on why it is important.
1:15.6	All right, all, before we get going, I want to just talk to you about some things ahead for
1:19.6	straight white American Jesus and just kind of let you know where we're at.
1:22.7	If you don't want to hear that, you know, like Brad, I just get to the point for today.
1:26.9	Talk to me about what's going on with ice and mass deportations. Feel free to skip ahead here about two minutes.
1:33.0	I just want to be open with you all about where I'm at and what we're planning for the future. Right now,
1:37.7	I'm feeling really stretched and really kind of worn thin. I'm finishing a book about
1:42.9	tech monarchists and Christian theocrats who are
1:46.0	trying to take over the country. And it's going to mean a lot of, I'm going to share a lot of that
1:51.0	on this podcast and I'm going to talk about what I'm writing a lot here in the coming months.
1:56.7	But at the moment, it means a lot of my brain and my creativity and my energy is going towards
2:03.1	just trying to get over the finish line with this book.
2:05.4	And so that's one thing.
2:07.2	The other thing is that something I really haven't talked about behind the scenes is that we are
2:11.0	really trying to renovate and renew our show in ways that we feel will set us up for
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