Is Any Immigrant Safe In Trump's America?

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration spends a lot of time trumpeting all the ways it’s cracking down on immigrants in the United States. From the very public raids in sanctuary cities that defined the first few weeks of Trump’s second term, to sending Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem down to El Salvador this week to pose in front of alleged gang members at a massive prison, the White House wants people to believe it’s nabbing all the bad guys. But arrest data shows that we may be seeing a shift in who the administration is targeting for deportation. Ted Hesson, immigration reporter for Reuters, explains what’s happening on the ground. And in headlines: The Health and Human Services Department said it wants to lay off 10,000 full-time employees, Attorney General Pam Bondi suggests the Justice Department won’t pursue criminal investigations over Signal-gate, and President Trump withdrew his nomination of Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, March 28th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddy.
0:06.0	The show that is stunned that President Donald Trump didn't throw out the first pitch Thursday for the Washington Nationals.
0:12.0	I am shocked and surprised that our fit, athletic president didn't make an appearance.
0:17.9	Sad!
0:28.5	No. didn't make an appearance. Sad! On today's show, the Health and Human Services Department says it wants to lay off
0:32.1	10,000 full-time employees. And the fallout from Signalgate continues, even as the White House tries its
0:38.2	damned us to make it all go away. But let's start with immigration. Now, if you listen to the
0:44.1	Trump administration, everything on the immigration front is, you guessed it, awesome. They're getting
0:50.0	all the bad guys and America is being made great again, or something. Here's White House
0:55.1	Press Secretary Caroline Levitt talking about the arrest of an alleged MS-13 gang leader on Thursday
1:00.1	with a level of enthusiasm I find deeply worrying coming from anyone over the age of 10.
1:05.3	This is what happens when you have competent federal leadership at the top, working with state and local law enforcement on the ground to put bad guys in jail.
1:16.1	And this is a directive that has come from President Trump here at the White House to law enforcement agencies across the country.
1:22.9	This president has your back, and he is going to support you as you pursue illegal immigrants and you
1:29.2	pursue violent criminals in American communities. But things are not awesome. Actually, things are
1:36.1	pretty fucked up for undocumented people, for people with legal permanent status, even for
1:41.0	American citizens. Take El Salvador, where the administration has been sending
1:45.3	allegedly undocumented migrants, including possible members of a Venezuelan gang, to a super prison
1:50.9	called the Terrorism Confignment Center. The administration is very proud of this fact,
1:55.5	so much so that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoem visited the facility on Wednesday
2:00.1	and, of course,
2:01.0	made a video about it, using the people in prison there as background props.
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