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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Hey there Lemon Nation! Today, Legal analyst, political commentator and Host of the Make It Make Sense Daily Digital Show, Monique Pressley brings us a new episode of The Week With Monique! This past week, we saw a lot of MAGA policies that were obviously driven by racism...and even more that will disproportionately hurt marginalized communities. But it looks like poor white communities may also see some trouble. Join Monique to break it all down! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome elimination. It's time for the week with Monique. I'm Monique
0:07.3	Presley and it's always a pleasure to come back to you and talk to you about that one
0:12.6	thing out of all the things that are going on in this country, in this world. I'm
0:18.7	trying to narrow it down for you to that one, maybe two things that I think
0:24.0	are not just newsworthy but are critical for you to know about for your life. Now, I admit,
0:31.6	since I was last with you last week when we were talking about our first Black Pope,
0:36.5	oh, hooray, thank God, thank God, First American
0:38.9	Pope, first black Pope. But that's not what we're talking about this week. That's just since last
0:43.4	week. Also since last week, the mayor of Newark, Mayor Raz Baraka was trying to go to an ICE detention facility in Newark.
0:57.0	The ICE detention facility is not up to code and does not have an active license in order to be running a detention facility where they are arresting and keeping other humans and where they're claiming Pam Bondi,
1:12.4	Kristy Noem, claiming that is gang members of MS-13 and center and so on, but there's no
1:17.9	proof whatsoever that that's who they've put in that facility, absentee due process.
1:22.9	So people are showing up saying, let us see. And Congress members showed up saying let us see and and congress members showed up saying let us see and they
1:32.3	weren't allowed in and mayor baraka showed up to support them and was invited to step inside the gate
1:40.0	he does it you know what they do they arrest him and they detained the mayor in a separate but not far away
1:48.7	ICE detention facility they questioned the mayor they held the mayor for over four hours they
1:56.6	body handled like they ruffed up, treated poorly, two members of Congress. Congresswoman
2:04.3	Bonnie McGiver and, excuse me, Congresswoman Monica McIver and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson.
2:11.2	It was a mess.
2:13.4	It was a mess.
2:14.4	And now we hear today that the Department of Justice, Bondi, is planning to also press charges against Congresswoman Monica McGuire. I don't know what for. I have no idea. She was supposed to be there. She was supposed to be able to be there. She was supposed to be able to be there she was
2:34.6	supposed to be able to have entry why in the world would they be trying to arrest
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