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Le Show For The Week Of December 7, 2025

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Music, Society & Culture, Tech News, Sports

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of Smart World, News of Forever Chemicals, News of the Olympic Movement, News of Crypto-Winter, News of the Warm, News of Musk Love, Truth Social Audio with Donald Trump, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, News of Microplastics, What the Frack?!, and more.

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:08.0

Ladies and gentlemen from New Orleans, Louisiana, we're in this program often originates these days.

0:15.0

We are the sort of home base for a little while of an operation.

0:23.7

It was originally brooded about to be called Operation Swamp Sweep, but when it started actually,

0:32.8

in fact, this past Wednesday, it had a new name, Operation Cattahula Crunch.

0:39.4

Sounds like a breakfast cereal, but no.

0:42.5

No, it's an operation to round up some people to meet a numerical quota, as you may know.

0:51.5

In a press release, Department of Homeland Security officials said the crackdown focuses on people with criminal records previously released by New Orleans law enforcement.

1:04.7

That's reported by Axis, which also says the ICE main unit for removing immigration law violators has been arresting roughly 1,100 people a day in recent weeks,

1:18.3

according to a government release in response to a Freedom of Information Act request,

1:24.8

but according to Axius, fueling the larger arrest numbers,

1:29.3

ISIS decision to also target people without criminal convictions or charges.

1:38.6

Under previous president, people who hadn't committed another crime weren't prioritized for arrest and deportation.

1:46.1

Agents now have a broader mandate and have been encouraged to make more, what are called, quote, collateral arrests, unquote.

1:59.5

I thought collateral meant something you provided when you were trying to get alone,

2:04.6

but now it's something you provide when you're going to be alone.

2:09.6

And fortunately, the weather has been so cold New Orleans this past week

2:15.6

that many of the people they're looking for

2:17.5

are staying indoors.

2:21.5

That's the good news. Hello, welcome to the show.

2:35.0

Hello, welcome to the show. I'm going to be. Oh. Oh. And I'm

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