Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm LRie Daniel

Favors, author, activist, attorney, and host of the LaRie Daniel Favors show on

Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. So we're all clear that America's restarting the slave

trade, right? Like our, or maybe we're not all clear about that. So let's at least lay some

facts down so we

understand why I would make a statement like that and then we can explore what it looks like when

the same sorts of legal frameworks that were used to support slavery are also making a reappearance

in America 2025 version so basically we right now have a situation where the American government, led by

Donald Trump and the Republican Party, essentially have decided that they are going to align themselves

with the regime that does the following. Number one, kidnap people off of the streets. And by

kidnap, I mean random, non-identified persons who have a very aggressive manner, put their hands on you, surround you, and the next thing you know, you are thrown into the back of a truck.

Now, perhaps the people who are surrounding you, arresting you, and throwing you into the back of a truck, perhaps they're official. Perhaps they're police officers, for example.

Maybe they are a part of the FBI. Maybe they are part of ICE. Whatever it is, you wouldn't know

because they often don't identify themselves to you or to the people around you. But essentially,

you as the victim in this case, are snatched up off the streets.

You are placed into some form of arrest, thrown into the back of some vehicle, and then sent away through a system known as the American immigration system.

And what we are seeing happening is that many people caught up in this system are then placed in private prisons, either private prisons here in these United

States or prisons that are in countries like El Salvador. Now, as we've talked about in previous

episodes, we often will see folks in the media using the wrong terminology to describe what's

happening. And those folks will say things like, well, such and such migrant was deported to El Salvador.

But let us be clear, deportation is what happens when you are sent back to the country from which you came.

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