Trump Wages War On Immigrant Families, Mass Movement Sweeps LA & The Country
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and the US government declared war against working class immigrant families, against grandparents, parents, and against their children. 30 million people in the United States either have a green card giving them legal status as immigrants, or they are undocumented, working here, but without legal papers. This means that a big section of the country is under attack by the US government, and people are standing up, they're organizing, they’re mobilizing, they’re fighting back.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump and the U.S. government declared war against working-class immigrant families, |
| 0:07.2 | against grandparents, parents against their children. |
| 0:10.6 | 30 million people in the United States either have a green card giving them legal status as immigrants, |
| 0:16.0 | or they are undocumented, working here but without legal papers. |
| 0:20.3 | This means that a big section of the |
| 0:22.3 | country is now under attack by the U.S. government, and the people are standing up, they're |
| 0:27.8 | organizing, they're mobilizing, and they're fighting back. |
| 0:31.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have |
| 0:37.4 | sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you. I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of the Socialist Program. |
| 1:17.3 | And we want to thank all of our patrons for keeping the show on the air. |
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| 1:31.1 | Leanne, we are witnessing history in the making right now. It's an epic battle. It's between the |
| 1:37.5 | U.S. government, the Trump administration, the billionaires who run the country using the instruments |
| 1:43.7 | of state repression directed against the |
| 1:46.2 | working class, and in particular the working class that is undocumented or their children |
| 1:53.1 | and against whole families. There may be a family that has one undocumented person, but when |
| 1:58.2 | ice knocks on the door or sometimes doesn't knock, just |
| 2:01.1 | bashes the door down. When they arrest people in the parking lots at Home Depot, |
| 2:06.6 | they are creating the conditions of terror. This is terror against the working class. |
| 2:12.7 | And as the socialist program, we urge all people in the United States, all people who believe in progress, certainly all people who consider themselves part of the working class, whether you're a citizen or non-citizen, especially if you consider yourself someone who is part of the socialist movement to be standing with the immigrant families against this reign of terror carried out by the U.S. |
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