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On Point | Podcast

Who are the new deportation police?

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The White House is demanding that ICE make 3,000 arrests per day – and it's pulling in agents from the FBI and the DEA to help. How Trump's push for mass deportations is reshaping U.S. law enforcement.

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0:00.0

Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from B.U.

0:04.9

Questrum School of Business. What is short-termism? Is it a buzzword or something that really impacts businesses in the economy?

0:13.2

Stick around until the end of this podcast for a preview of a recent episode.

0:19.2

WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

0:27.3

This is On Point.

0:28.6

I'm Anthony Brooks in for Megynuchakrabardi.

0:31.0

The Trump administration is employing the full power of the federal government to crack

0:34.9

down on illegal immigration, drafting officers from multiple

0:38.3

federal agencies to chase down and arrest migrants who are already in the country. One of those arrests

0:44.0

occurred last April in Kennet, Missouri, population 10,000. Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs

0:50.8

Enforcement or ICE shackled a woman named Carol Majora and placed her in the back of a van.

0:57.2

They handcuffed me and my race, my leg, and take me in the rent. And then the rent was so dark.

1:07.7

You cannot see anything. Carol's legal name is Ming Li Hui. Originally from Hong Kong,

1:13.5

she entered the U.S. in 2004 on a tourist visa. Carol overstayed her visa, but she eventually

1:19.5

got authorization to work legally in the U.S. after telling a court she was escaping abuse

1:24.7

by her mother. She worked for several years at a local family restaurant,

1:29.5

then at an appointment to renew her work permit.

1:32.7

ICE officers detained her.

1:34.7

When Carol spoke to NPR's Midwest newsroom from jail last month,

1:38.5

she said she was worried about her three kids, ages 14, 12, and 7.

1:44.5

My middle of son, he made all strike eight.

1:48.4

He made top 10 on his class.

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