ICE Polices The American Dream

What A Day

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Trump Administration has put billions of dollars into building an immigration superstructure meant to punish those who have done nothing wrong and intimidate everyone else – including legal immigrants and US citizens. Weirdly enough, that’s proving not to be very popular. According to new polling from the Associated Press, Trump is now deeply underwater on the subject of immigration – with 60 percent of respondents opposing his handling of the issue. So to talk more about what’s happening with immigration, from the Administration’s plans for 2026 to its many horrifying offenses, we spoke to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. He’s a Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. And in headlines, dueling healthcare bills fail in the Senate, nature-lovers push back on plans to make President Trump the face of their National Park adventures, and Disney becomes the first major studio to license its characters to OpenAI’s video generator.This holiday season, gift someone a Friends of the Pod subscription or treat yourself. Learn more at crooked.com/friends. Subscribing is the best way to support independent progressive media.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, December 12th. I'm Jane Koston. This is for today. The show celebrating the
0:07.1	Department of Justice for failing to indict New York Attorney General, Letitia James. It's time to leave
0:11.8	Tish alone, guys. On today's show, dueling health care bills fail in the Senate, setting Republicans back from concepts of a plan to concepts of a concept of a plan.
0:28.5	And is nothing sacred?
0:30.3	Nature lovers push back on plans to make President Donald Trump the face of their national park adventures.
0:36.0	But let's start with immigration.
0:38.4	On Thursday, a federal judge ordered Kilmar-Abriga-Garcia be released from immigration detention.
0:43.8	Another twist in the story of the man wrongfully deported to an El Salvadoran super prison earlier this year.
0:49.9	Here's CBS News, Camillo-Galvez, quoting the judge's ruling.
0:54.3	Because respondents, meaning the government, have no statutory authority to remove of Rio Garcia to a third country
1:00.5	absent a removal order, a deportation order, his removal cannot be considered reasonably foreseeable, imminent, or consistent with due process.
1:09.3	Although respondents may eventually get it right,
1:12.5	they have nut as of today. What Garcia has experienced seems to me to be a microcosm of what
1:18.5	immigration has looked like under the Trump administration for the last 12 months or so.
1:22.7	Cruelty and incompetence, both at their absolute worst. We have agents from immigration and customs
1:28.3	enforcement in multiple cities committing atrocities against immigrants and U.S. citizens alike
1:32.5	on an almost daily basis, from Chicago to Charlotte, Los Angeles, to D.C. Also on Thursday,
1:39.7	Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Knoam was forced to answer to Rhode Island
1:43.5	Democratic Representative Seth Magizener, as she testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security.
1:49.7	He asked her about the deportation of a combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient, after she denied that any veterans had been deported at all.
1:57.9	He has sacrificed more for this country than most people ever have. Earlier this year,
2:03.3	you deported him to Korea, a country he hasn't lived in since he was seven years old. Will you
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