The Guardian's Oliver Laughland on Starbase, TX; Cops with "Red Flags" Helping ICE; "Detention Alley"

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Oliver Laughland, The Guardian's U.S. southern bureau chief, discusses his reporting on the election in Elon Musk's new company town in Texas, his coverage of new police collaboration with Trump’s mass deportation plan, and conditions in “Detention Alley.”

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0:00.0	This is Democracy Now.
0:05.0	Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report.
0:09.0	I'm Amy Goodman.
0:10.0	We're joined now in our New York studio by a reporter who's just back from covering the vote
0:16.0	to incorporate Elon Musk's new company, in South Texas called Starbase, home to
0:25.4	Musk's aerospace and defense company, SpaceX.
0:29.6	The vote was 212 to 6.
0:33.7	The Guardian's Oliver Lockland caught up with one of the few people who voted no.
0:39.3	You just cast your ballot?
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	Do you mind me asking how you voted?
0:44.3	Vote it no.
0:45.3	Voted no?
0:46.3	I was here before SpaceX. I have no loyalty issues there.
0:50.3	Yeah.
0:51.3	So, no.
0:52.3	How are you feeling about the whole vote? Not happy.
0:55.0	Why?
0:56.0	Tell me about it.
0:57.0	Are you from the local area?
1:00.0	No, I live in New Orleans, so...
1:02.0	This used to be a nice, quiet, peaceful, little kind of retirement community.
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