ITT Sound Off: Shutdown Limbo
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The current government shutdown is about to become the longest in U.S. history and it's not only impacting workers, but also the lives of immigrants and asylum seekers. Maria and Julio talk about the shutdown and the rhetoric that for decades has backed the implementation of anti-immigration policies, supported by leaders of both political parties and the mainstream media.
ITT Staff Picks:
- A Houston immigration lawyer describes the chaos of Trump’s shutdown, by The New Yorker.
- This investigation breaks down the myth that connects immigration rates with a surge in crime rates in recent decades, from The Marshall Project
- ICE has likely run out of money to pay for detention space, potentially violating a law that could require the release of some immigrants and constrain enforcement, by Buzzfeed.
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| 0:27.0 | Hey, what is up, up, up, up, up, up. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Maria Ina Hosa and welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, and I'm Julio Rico-Lober-E-L-E-L-E-Loharela and this is ITT-Soundoff. |
| 0:36.0 | So you know that we're doing this thing on Fridays called the IT-T-Soundoff. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's start with our first topic. |
| 0:42.6 | We want to talk about how the shutdown is impacting immigrants and refugees. |
| 0:50.2 | And you know it's 21 days, it's time basically for the longest shutdown in history he wants to you know I think Trump wants to surpass us at this point |
| 0:58.7 | Which means hulio you know in real life immigration courts are pretty much not functioning right now |
| 1:06.2 | which means deportations are not happening and so that may seem like a relief but if you have people who are being held in privately run prison, |
| 1:17.0 | you know, they're privately run immigration detention camps. |
| 1:21.0 | You know, it's more human suffering upon human suffering. |
| 1:24.1 | Right, and then there's one of the things that I did after Trump's national |
| 1:28.9 | speech, whatever that was, the propaganda. He was talking about all these crime statistics with immigration. |
| 1:35.0 | So I actually like emailed ICE the next day to be like, |
| 1:39.0 | how do you guys come up with these quote unquote stats and I got this like standard reply back saying |
| 1:46.4 | sorry ice media is closed due to the shutdown we can't help you so I was trying to do my job and get to like the actual process of because I do think ICE sometimes, I don't say cooks the numbers, but they do things with data that should be questioned, right? |
| 2:03.8 | So that's number one. |
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