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Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday.

Well, a few months ago, one of our listeners sent in an email suggesting that before certain

episodes of this podcast, I should do a trigger warning, which I thought was

funny and well taken. This may be one of those episodes, although I don't think it should

trigger you. Hopefully all it triggers is some interesting conversation and some intellectual

curiosity. I'd love to hear what you think, especially if you

disagree, if we get a critical mass of responses, of emails, either making interesting points

or disagreeing with me, maybe we'll do a little mailbag special because this story is not

going anywhere. So send us those thoughts, questions, or comments to lettersters atcafe.com. Here we go.

There's plenty of cause for alarm over the Trump administration's enforcement of its

immigration agenda during its first three-plus months back in power.

But the recent arrests of two state court judges, Hannah Dugan in Wisconsin, and Jose Luis

Canoe in New Mexico, are not part of the problem.

Don't conflate these well-founded criminal charges with the many valid and pressing criticisms

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