Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration, Dissent, and Democracy

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How President Trump’s apparent disregard of due process and attacks on immigrants are an attack on us all, fmr. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) discusses how Trump’s policies are harming American farmers, and with the criminalization of miscarriage and the decriminalization of clinic harassment happening side-by-side post-Roe America is getting scarier

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0:00.0	All right, it's Saturday, May 24th, we begin this hour with a promise, Donald Trump's promise to launch the largest deportation operation in American history.
0:14.2	It was a centerpiece of his 2024 presidential campaign.
0:17.3	But to say that he's merely fulfilling that promise misses the far more troubling
0:21.2	reality. The methods that this administration has deployed are extreme, threatening not just
0:27.7	undocumented immigrants, but the entire rule of law in America. What we're witnessing today is no
0:33.2	longer just about immigration policy. It's quickly morphed into a horrifying crackdown that appears to target anyone perceived
0:39.9	as an ideological threat, and it's part of a broader assault on the Constitution, on courts,
0:45.4	the lawyers who uphold the rule of law, higher education, and Trump's critics overall.
0:50.1	Wherever you stand on immigration, what we're witnessing is far more dangerous and deeply alarming than simply an immigration crackdown.
0:58.3	From day one, this administration began militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border, targeting asylum seekers, launching raids in immigrant communities,
1:06.2	spreading hysteria about a phantom gang invasion supported by the Venezuelan government.
1:11.4	Trump's deportation dragnet has been incoherent and all-consuming,
1:15.8	sweeping up college students, legal residents, green card holders, U.S. citizens, including babies.
1:22.2	Just this week, a construction worker in South Alabama said ICE agents violently detained him,
1:27.3	falsely claiming that his
1:28.3	proof of citizenship was fake. He was released hours later. He's not the first U.S. citizen to be
1:33.5	targeted, and if these methods continue, he won't be the last. The stories are chilling, masked
1:37.7	agents dragging away college students in broad daylight, international students and academics
1:42.2	abruptly transferred across state lines. People flown
1:45.1	thousands of miles away to foreign prisons notorious for human rights abuses. No charges. No evidence.
1:53.9	Just vague accusations of gang affiliation or supporting Hamas or perhaps considering taking
1:59.5	ideological positions contrary to U.S. foreign
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