It’s Trump’s Policy, But Both Parties Set the Stage for Mass Deportations

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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President-elect Trump has promised to use everything from the law to local police to the military to enforce his immigration policies and make good on his promise of mass deportations.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios.
0:11.2	This morning, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan is set to return to the White House.
0:17.3	The president-elect announced Homan will serve as Bordersar.
0:20.6	Homan led the zero-tolerance
0:22.1	policy that separated parents from their children at the border. The deputy mayor for immigrant,
0:27.2	migrant, migrant, and refugee rights, says Chicago will not be bullied because of its welcoming city
0:31.8	ordinance. Pastor Emma Lazzano, who famously provided sanctuary at her humble park church for
0:37.1	Elvira Arrayano, is calling on
0:39.1	President Biden to act now.
0:41.4	To give temporary protection status for those people that have been living here for decades.
0:47.3	The important demands are that the administration right now can start closing cases.
0:52.2	What we will not do is go back into the shadows. What we will not do is stop loving on one another.
0:57.0	And we're going to continue to organize. It's Notes from America.
1:19.4	I'm Kai Wright.
1:20.3	Welcome to the show.
1:22.6	The first weeks of transition into Donald Trump's second term have been filled with just an absurd parade of cabinet and staffing announcements.
1:33.0	It's almost as if he's intentionally choosing people who are either the least qualified or most hostile to the roles with which they'll be tasked.
1:42.2	And I'm reminded of the conversation we had on this show
1:45.9	the weekend before the election with historian Ann Applebaum. Check it out in our podcast feed if you
1:51.9	missed it. But she warned us that this is how autocracies always begin with outlandish actions that
1:59.7	are meant to strain credulity because they're actuallylandish actions that are meant to strain
2:00.9	credulity because they're actually tests and conditioning for what's to come.
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