The Jackpod: Get out
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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President Trump has promised “the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.” On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the lessons and legacy of two mass deportations of the 20th century.
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| 0:32.0 | I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod, |
| 0:35.7 | where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, |
| 0:39.7 | literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 0:46.8 | Hello, Magna. |
| 0:48.0 | We're at episode 64. What's your headline for today? |
| 0:51.6 | Get out. |
| 0:52.8 | Get out. |
| 0:57.3 | Who and from where? Tell me more. |
| 1:03.8 | Immigrants, and they're being ordered to get out by the president of the United States. In one of the executive orders, he issued in his first day as president. President Trump decreed, quote, an invasion across the |
| 1:14.4 | southern border and instructed his cabinet, quote, to take appropriate action to repel, |
| 1:21.4 | repatriate, or remove any aliens engaged in the invasion. Of course, there is no invasion. |
| 1:29.3 | He's using that word because there may be an 18th century law |
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