Trump and the Panama Canal
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.8 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:15.6 | It's hard to know where to look first right now after two days of the new Trump administration. |
| 0:20.0 | You've just been hearing on the BBC |
| 0:22.1 | about the pause in refugee resettlement programs. A new policy announced on Monday, we opened |
| 0:28.6 | so-called sensitive spaces to immigration raids. As CBS News describes that, the policy signed by |
| 0:35.8 | former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas |
| 0:39.5 | instructed immigration and customs enforcement and customs and border protection during the |
| 0:45.6 | Biden administration to refrain from apprehending unauthorized immigrants at or near locations, |
| 0:52.8 | quote, that would restrain people's access to essential services |
| 0:57.0 | or engagement in essential activities, unquote. CBS says those locations included schools, |
| 1:04.1 | places of worship, hospitals, and other health care facilities, shelters, |
| 1:08.5 | shelters, relief centers, and public demonstrations like rallies and protests. |
| 1:13.6 | So undocumented immigrants cannot take sanctuary in a sanctuary anymore. We take that away from that. |
| 1:20.3 | The head of the proud boys, Enrique Atorio, now pardoned from his 22-year sentence for a seditious conspiracy that's |
| 1:30.6 | conspiring to overthrow the United States government as an organizer of the January 6th riots. |
| 1:36.7 | Torio went on the Alex Jones Info Wars podcast yesterday and called on Trump's nominees for FBI |
| 1:42.6 | director and attorney general to prosecute those who prosecuted him. |
| 1:48.3 | Just for the record, the Anti-Defamation League calls the proud boys a right-wing extremist group with a history of using violence, |
| 1:56.0 | targeted harassment, and intimidation to achieve their political goals and combat perceived enemies. |
| 2:02.3 | It says the group serves as a tent for misogynistic, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, and |
| 2:07.6 | anti-LGBQ Plus ideologies and other forms of hate, including anti-Semitism and white supremacy. |
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