Inventing "Invasion" / Molly Redden

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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ProPublica's Molly Redden joins us to discuss her article, "The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy." A new "Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Molly's article here: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Take a check in the water
0:03.0	The water
0:04.0	The water
0:06.0	Take a jack This is hell.
0:44.6	Live from a world where accusations have become confessions.
0:50.5	This is hell.
0:53.0	Earlier this week, we spoke with one of the world's leading experts on famine, the World Peace Foundation's Alex DeWall.
1:01.2	About his writing he did a few weeks ago at the London Review of Books on Starvation in Gaza, as well as an article he had posted at unheard, that's unhERD.com, arguing that famine
1:14.6	will not bring Israel the victory they think it will in Gaza. In both pieces, Alex argued that
1:23.8	by dismantling the already existing and tested for decades food and distribution system
1:29.3	in Gaza, which included hundreds of disbursement locations, and replacing it with a U.S.
1:34.9	and Israel aid system built from scratch with only six food aid sites while employing what Alex
1:42.4	called surveillance humanitarianism, using face scans to
1:46.0	determine who deserves food and who does not.
1:49.0	All while being under the watchful eye of mercenaries and armed Israeli soldiers, Alex
1:54.0	had warned readers it would lead to disaster, and it has, with chaos leading to shootings, which have caused dozens of
2:03.7	Gazans to die shot while trying to get desperately needed food for their starving families
2:10.5	and children.
2:12.0	Today we will be speaking with journalist Molly Redden, who will be on to talk about her
2:16.0	recent ProPublica writing,
2:18.3	the invasion invention, the far-right's long legal battle to make immigrants the enemy.
2:23.5	The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have invaded the country
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