Victims of Trump's irresponsible anti-immigrant crusade include American citizens

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow reports on examples of American citizens caught up in Donald Trump's attacks on immigrants in the U.S., some by accident, some by malicious negligence, and some apparently targeted on purpose.

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0:00.0	Thanks to at home for joining us this hour. So we really count on local news organizations a lot on this show.
0:07.2	We, of course, are mostly covering national news and national politics, particularly in this historic moment where we're basically deciding as a country whether or not we are staying a democracy or not.
0:19.2	We are a national show. This is a national news network.
0:22.0	We cover stories of national importance.
0:25.6	But stories of national importance and stories of national political importance don't always happen in the capital of the nation.
0:35.1	They don't always happen in D.C.
0:37.2	In fact, they most often do not happen in D.C. In fact, they most often do not
0:39.6	happen in D.C. I would say, for example, that it is a huge story of national political import
0:47.6	that the Trump administration is now having federal agents arrest judges. But when that happened this past week, it wasn't something
0:56.8	that happened in Washington. It was something that happened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And the Milwaukee
1:01.9	Journal Sentinel newspaper was all over the story with in-depth reporting on what led up to the
1:09.4	arrest and the allegations the Trump administration
1:12.1	was making against the judge and the handling of her arrest and her standing in the community
1:17.1	and her background and the horror with which her arrest was greeted in Wisconsin when protests
1:23.1	erupted spontaneously, immediately at the Milwaukee County Courthouse where the judge had been
1:27.8	arrested. And then there were more protests at the Milwaukee FBI field office. And then the next day,
1:33.2	there were yet more protests at the Milwaukee FBI field office. We saw local news stations like WISN 12
1:39.9	News, the ABC station in Milwaukee and WTMJ4, the local NBC station in Milwaukee, they've just
1:46.9	been all over those protests with their correspondence there and cameras there covering them in depth.
1:53.4	The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the paper was all over the big press conference that was held
1:57.6	yesterday at the Milwaukee County Courthouse with local political leaders
2:01.2	and Democratic state legislators and lots of clergy, lots of faith leaders, all speaking up to defend
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