EP 863 Are Trump’s Deportation Policies What He Told Us During the Campaign?

While many of us do not believe Donald Trump when he says the quiet part out loud, on the matter of deporting people (mostly undocumented, but not all) out of the United States during his second term, he was serious. However, his zeal to do it has ensnared more than folks who came here without papers or overstayed visas AND committed violent crimes. There are others who’ve simply spoken their minds or been lured under false pretenses to an immigration interview and had to have a judge intercede to keep them here.  What’s going on with the use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the threat of suspending the writ of habeas corpus and lock aways for who knows who in El Salvador’s notorious gulag defy explanation and run counter to law, according to numerous court setbacks for the Administration.  And after the Supreme Court ordered that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release be ‘facilitated’ from his custody in an El Salvadoran prison, the Administration has still refused to do so. What is happening here?  To break it all down for us, and provide history and context, is Julia Preston, a journalist and author with a ten-year stint as the immigration reporter for the New York Times.  She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for reporting on international affairs.  She will challenge you, as she did me, on knowing the facts about what’s happening in this moment.

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