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Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign One Year In / Nicole Foy

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Nicole Foy joins us to discuss her recent reporting at ProPublica, including "We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Nicole's articles at ProPublica here: https://www.propublica.org/people/nicole-foy Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

Big it down This is a lot of power. Making sure!

0:31.6

This This is Hell.

0:44.7

Live from the United States, where the law is far too often the crime.

0:51.1

This is hell, and we have been witnessing crimes committed by those who are supposedly enforcing the law,

0:58.0

but are in reality not only violating the law, but in violation of a recent Supreme Court ruling,

1:03.0

and the constitutional rights of not only U.S. citizens, but rights protecting everyone within the borders of the United States.

1:08.8

The crimes we have seen are horrendous.

1:13.1

U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike being shot, brutally beaten, killed, with what seems like

1:20.9

impunity as armed, and this is important, armored ice agents, rove neighborhoods neighborhoods and streets racially profiling and picking up anyone who looks like an immigrant to them.

1:34.3

No matter the denials by the Department of Homeland Security, the blatant lies, U.S. citizens have been arrested, detained, and even murdered by ICE agents provoking violence to meet quotas, which has nothing to do with enforcing any immigration law.

1:49.2

In a few minutes, we'll try to get a better grasp of just what the hell is going on when we speak with Nicole Foy,

1:55.9

a reporter at ProPublica who covers immigration and labor.

1:59.9

Nicole's most recent writing is we found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents using banned

2:06.9

chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing, which she co-wrote with Mackenzie Funk.

2:12.9

I'll tell you a little bit about McKenzie in a moment.

2:15.3

Her previous writing, We found that more than 170 U.S.

2:19.2

citizens have been held by immigration agents. They've been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.

2:25.1

In response to that investigation, her investigation, a joint congressional investigation

2:31.2

was launched in response. That investigation by Senate Democrats

2:36.7

documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents,

2:42.4

contradicting the Trump administration's claims that it only detains immigrants.

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