TRAILER: Trump’s GI Joe-Cosplaying “Goon Squads” Sow Terror — and Solidarity
The Intercept Briefing
The Intercept
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
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ICE agents are arresting day laborers and raiding businesses across the country. They didn’t expect community resistance. This week on The Intercept Briefing, Salvador Sarmiento, the campaign director and lawyer for the 70-member National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and Jonah Valdez, reporter for The Intercept joined host Jordan Uhl to discuss the wave of ICE operations sweeping Los Angeles that have sparked a week of protests and the militarized response from law enforcement.
Attorney Isabella Salomão Nascimento also talks to us about our First Amendment right to protest.
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| 0:00.0 | Churches, graduations, car washes, parking lots. |
| 0:06.8 | In cities across California, ICE agents are kidnapping people. |
| 0:10.8 | It seems like the federal police is just driving around willy-nilly, you know, dressed up as a goon squad, |
| 0:18.3 | picking up people that they see on a street corner. |
| 0:21.5 | The federal government, you know, violently taking people from their work sites in military fashion. |
| 0:27.0 | On this week's Intercept briefing, I spoke to Salvador Salimento, an immigrant rights advocate, |
| 0:32.4 | and reporter Jonah Valdez, about the Trump administration's latest wave of raids |
| 0:37.4 | and the protests rising to stop |
| 0:39.9 | them listen wherever you get your podcasts |
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