It's Friday, May 29th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is wed today. The show celebrating a continued

President Donald Trump tradition, spending millions of dollars to cover stuff in gold. This time,

it's $5 million to cover four bronze horses near the Lincoln Memorial and Gold Leaf. Why? Because why not?

There are no rules.

On today's show, former First Lady Joe Biden admits she thought President Joe Biden was having

a stroke during that debate.

And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

thinks it's totally normal to put Trump's face on a $250 bill. But let's start with immigration.

Trump's immigration policies haven't been getting much attention lately. Thanks in part to all of the

other terrible shit this administration has been up to. But don't be fooled. The immigration

detention industrial complex hasn't slowed down. Undocumented immigrants, DACA recipients, green card

holders, and U.S. citizens alike are still being detained by immigration and customs

enforcement. According to Syracuse University's transactional records access clearinghouse,

at least 60,000 people were in ICE detention facilities as of early April.

And many of them are held in truly deplorable conditions, like in New Jersey, where

ICE detainees are carrying out a hunger strike to protest the conditions at the Delaney

Hall Detention Center.

Advocates for the detainees shared a letter written by those on strike inside the facility with reporters on Wednesday, listing their grievances.

Food containing warms or in a state of decay, unresolved issues, particularly the bathrooms which are terrible and inhumane conditions.

Ventilation problems, serious health issues, most people have a persistent flu with phlegm that won't go away.

Many have conjunctivitis, urinary tract infections, fever and coughs, medical care issues.

If you're sick, you have to submit a request that takes two weeks to be answered, or you never get a response at all.

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