Hey, everybody, we got a great one today.

You know, for a change.

Journalist Jonathan Alder joins me.

Best-selling author, a former columnist and editor of Newsweek,

and he has a terrific substack called Old Goats.

Jonathan wrote a great piece for the Washington Monthly.

America is now a police state on a horrible part of the Big Beautiful Bill that didn't get as

much attention as the other terrible parts like the Medicaid and Snapcuts.

But the $100 billion in new funding for ICE and customs and border protection is every bit as ugly.

And Americans are just beginning to get an idea of how much we hate it,

because so much is going to rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants

who have done nothing illegal other than coming here illegally

or overstaying a visa and have lived here and worked and contributed to our country.

And in fact, there are even 500,000 plus Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who came here legally under a

program that allowed them to stay in the U.S., provided they had a financial sponsor, and met

certain other criteria.

However, the program has been terminated, and those people who broke no laws now face deportation.

And before we go to Jonathan, just a word about President Trump and the tragic situation in Gaza.

So the United States sent $60 million of food, and Trump is a little mift that no one thanked us.

We gave 60 million. Nobody said even thank you. You know, thanks. Somebody should say thank you.

So I'll say it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. And if you'd like to help feed those in Gaza who desperately, desperately need it,

you can send a contribution to World Central Kitchen.

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