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Immigration Crackdown, Gestapo ICE, How We Got Here, Palestine Update

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6814 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie discuss Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy and dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric, the lawlessness of gestapo police force ICE, the corporate media's manufactured outrage about the family separation crisis, how we got here: from NAFTA to the DHS to 'Deporter-In-Chief' Obama, the cognitive dissonance from Americans to not connect how US foreign policy bred the refugee and immigration crisis in the first place. They also go over all the latest updates in Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0

Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin. And this is Robbie Martin.

0:23.3

So we just recorded a podcast going over all of the headlines and all of the updates, except for Israel's stuff and the immigration debate that's been going on. And we just wanted to go over all of that.

0:36.5

But Robbie, starting off, and this does directly

0:40.6

relate to the immigration debate and especially the refugee crisis, in our previous podcast,

0:45.6

we mentioned that Trump is dropping a bomb every 12 minutes that is permanently separating families.

0:52.4

And I just think it's worth mentioning just the statistics going from Bush to Trump,

0:56.8

where Bush dropped 70,000 bombs in five countries.

1:01.4

Obama dropped 100,000 bombs in seven countries.

1:05.8

And Trump has ramped up that campaign to drop 44,000 bombs in his first year alone. That's a hundred and

1:13.6

twenty-one bombs a day. Every 12 minutes, U.S. obliterates innocent lives around the world. Again,

1:20.4

the cognitive dissonance of A, Americans who don't understand or care or her empathy for the fact

1:26.4

that our bombs are permanently separating

1:28.0

families on a daily basis every 12 minutes, or the cognitive dissonance of not understanding

1:33.4

how the refugee crisis on a global scale is happening because of U.S. foreign policy.

1:40.3

And this is just the Middle East.

1:42.1

We can get into the dirty wars and the coups and the endless

1:45.7

military incursions in Latin America later, which is where the majority of obviously those

1:49.6

refugees and migrants are coming from. But it just kills me that we can't connect these basic dots.

1:55.1

What you just brought up is such an important part of all this. And I remember when all those like little small attacks were happening in Europe that

2:04.1

seemed like they just kept happening.

2:05.9

And they were all like somehow they were all ISIS, which I don't even really know how

2:09.5

they determine other than being in that ISIS magazine where ISIS probably just takes credit

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