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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm going to take off a few stories that have come out over the last week. |
0:10.3 | Stories about how the federal government is processing immigrants in this country and their families. |
0:18.8 | Let's start with this. Over the weekend, the president's borders are confirmed that the U.S. had deported U.S. citizens. |
0:30.9 | Children, along with their moms, who are undocumented. |
0:35.5 | One kid was undergoing treatment for cancer. |
0:38.9 | Now they're going to have to figure that out in Honduras. |
0:42.9 | Then, in Oklahoma, a local news organization reported |
0:46.8 | that federal agents broke down the door of a US citizenS. citizen family. |
0:57.4 | They were looking for the people who used to live in their home, reportedly. |
1:02.4 | The agents confiscated the family's phones and computers for good measure. |
1:07.4 | And on Monday, the White House was dotted with lawn signs, |
1:10.5 | identifying people who'd been ejected from the country, allegedly for criminal activity. |
1:18.1 | In this flurry of news, it's easy to forget that somewhere in Louisiana, migrant students, are detained. |
1:26.9 | Still, these are people like Mahmood Khalil, who recently graduated from Columbia and had his green card revoked. |
1:34.9 | Then there's Rumaesa Osterk. She's the Tufts University student, who was taken off the street back in March. |
1:42.2 | Osterk was handcuffed at the corner of Mason Street and Electric |
1:45.8 | Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. That is smack in the middle of Ianna Presley's |
1:51.9 | congressional district. I knew within hours of Rumaesa's abduction, and I do consider her to be a political prisoner, that I would be |
2:03.4 | finding my way to wherever she was being detained. |
2:06.7 | Ianna Presley visited Osterk and Khalil at the Basile and Gina detention centers last week, |
2:13.0 | along with the few congressional colleagues. |
2:15.7 | What I observed and what I learned in this fact-finding mission, I didn't like any of the |
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