Trump Takes Down US Immigration System

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The machinery of mass deportations has been operating both in plain sight and out of view since President Donald Trump took office back in January. As millions of people are being deported, thousands more are stuck in detention facilities across the country. In fact, the exact number of people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention right now is 58,766, according to ICE data. The vast majority have no criminal record, but the Trump administration is denying them bond at an astounding rate, forcing them to stay in dirty and decrepit detention facilities for months on end with no hope of getting their day in court. But aside from that, there’s a lot we don’t know about the immigration system, as it’s operating right now. To discuss immigration policy in more detail, we spoke with Katie Blankenship, an attorney who represents clients navigating the immigration system. And in headlines, more than 100 countries at the United Nations General Assembly agree to mitigate climate change, sans the United States, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz clarified that Tylenol, is not in fact bad for you, and the federal government is asking scores of employees who lost their jobs (thanks to Elon Musk) to pretty please come back.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, September 25th. I'm Jane Koston. And this is Waday. The show that learned
0:07.6	Jimmy Kimmel's return to ABC late night after a suspension by Disney garnered more than 6.3 million
0:13.3	viewers on broadcast television. And as of the time of this recording, more than 16 million views
0:19.8	on YouTube and counting.
0:21.9	Thanks, Trump administration.
0:29.3	On today's show, more than 100 countries of the United Nations General Assembly
0:33.3	agree to mitigate climate change, sans the United States.
0:36.5	And the federal government is asking
0:37.7	scores of employees who lost their jobs thanks to Elon Musk to pretty plays, come back. But let's
0:43.6	start with immigration. The Department of Homeland Security issued a major announcement on Tuesday.
0:48.9	In a statement, the agency said that, quote, two million illegal aliens have been removed or have
0:53.8	self-deported since January 20th.
0:56.2	In an interview last week, Homeland Security Secretary, Christine Nome, praised the mass deportation effort because, of course, she did.
1:02.5	That has sent a clear message. It's sent a clear message to everyone that the boss has changed.
1:09.5	There's somebody new in the White House that's very different than the last president,
1:13.6	and this president cares about safety and security.
1:16.7	Wow.
1:17.6	It's wild how I don't feel any safer or better having learned that information.
1:22.3	Actually, I feel way, way worse.
1:25.3	The machinery of mass deportations has been operating both in plain sight
1:28.7	and out of view since President Donald Trump took office back in January. As millions of people
1:34.0	are being deported, thousands more are stuck in detention facilities across the country. In fact,
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