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'The abuse is out of control': Trump overreach prompts calls for ICE reform
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 06:32
The latest polls make it clear. And the public outcry makes it clear, too. Overreaching on immigration is a not only a moral loser, it's a political loser for Trump so far.And protests over that overreach are spreading nationwide. No kings rallies are planned in all 50 states this Saturday and are expected to be massive. But these protests are spreading across the country tonight.This is the scene in San Antonio, Texas right now. Hundreds of people holding signs, playing music, cheering and chanting, peacef ...
Democratic governors confer as Trump looks to spread militarized deportation frenzy
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 06:00
Right now, there are more troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are deployed in Syria and Iraq combined. Let me just repeat that because I've just been thinking about this all day since one of our amazing producers shared this with me. There are more troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are deployed in Syria and Iraq combined.And right now, Donald Trump is also doing everything he can to make Los Angeles look and feel like a war zone. That's on purpose. That's what he's trying to do.Today, NBC News ...
'Slows everything down': Trump hurts his own economy again with ICE raids
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 05:42
It is day 143. I know it feels like 4,043, but no, 143 of the second Trump administration. And right now, there is a curfew in effect for a second night in the city of Los Angeles. This is the sixth day of protests sparked by the Trump administration's immigration raids in the nation's second largest city.Tonight, we have seen more demonstrations both in Los Angeles and across the country with local officials warning ICE raids are spreading fear throughout their communities. I want to bring in NBC's Morgan ...
Stephanie Ruhle: Don't let Trump distract you
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 04:50
Immigration Policy Analysis - Trump's deportation numbers initially lower than Biden's, later surpassed but still less than half of Obama's record [1] - Obama's 2013 deportation record surpasses Trump's [2] - There is no evidence that Trump's immigration policies are protecting American jobs or lives [2] Government Spending & Budget - $134 million of taxpayer money spent on troops in LA [3] - $45 million of taxpayer money allocated for a military parade [3] - Budget includes cuts to Medicaid, food programs, and other benefits while expanding tax cuts [3] Political Strategy & Public Perception - Trump excels at marketing and branding, aiming to be known as the "deporter chief" [2] - Trump is producing television to grab attention [2] - The report urges staying informed and engaged on every move coming out of the White House [4]
Families shaken as nationwide ICE raids escalate
NBC News· 2025-06-12 03:30
No, no, no. Protests paint only one side of what is now happening every day. Away from the crowds across the nation, federal immigration raids sewing outrage, terror, and confusion among immigrant communities.From Omaha, Nebraska, where 80 workers were detained at a meat packing plant. Why. Why the US.Why are you handing me. What did he do. To San Antonio, Texas.[Music] where a mother screams out for her kids. Videos online showing agents making arrest in different businesses like car washes you guys. Where ...
L.A. police chief: National Guard deployed for immigration, not protests
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 03:24
Now, we already know from previous NBC reporting that in order to deliver on this massive expansion across the country that Trump clearly wants, Steven Miller clearly wants, they don't have the ICE doesn't currently have the manpower to scale up like that on their own, even though the leaders Trump and his minions want it. That's why they've had to pull agents from other parts of the government like the FBI, the DEA, and even the IRS, pulling agents by the thousands off of their day jobs and assigning them ...
The Beat With Ari Melber - June 11 | Audio Only
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 01:32
Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. We begin now with breaking news.Americans across the nation now gathering in the streets protesting aspects of the Trump agenda, these controversial ICE raids, and the extraordinary use of federal powers and even the military to back up those raids. We see signs that these protests, many of them peaceful, will be intensifying over the course of the evening. But that is against this backdrop.United States troops, sometimes armed with machine guns or weapons of war, in ...
ICE raids target California farm workers, spreading fear among ‘the people that are feeding us’
MSNBC· 2025-06-12 01:20
Joining us now, NBC's Jacob Soof. He is on the ground in Ventura County where ICE raids have been taking place. Jacob, what is happening in Ventura County. Alicia, what's happening in Ventura County is what was happening in Los Angeles County over the course of the last couple days.ICE enforcement actions in this mass deportation effort that had been announced and is now being executed by the Trump administration is happening right here in the beating heart of the California agricultural economy. Jenny Alva ...
‘Did Vladimir Putin write that?’: Nicolle Wallace on Homeland Security’s 'foreign invader' post
MSNBC· 2025-06-11 21:40
Um, General Anderson, take me inside your thoughts at this moment. Um, as Donald Trump in an Oval Office press aail yesterday promised that people that come out will be met with quote force um, this coming weekend. Well, uh, it shows that Donald Trump, Nicole, considers the military a prop, something to politicize, something to use to to achieve his objectives politically. And it just sickens me to see this happen. I mean, when you look at what's going on out there, uh, first of all, it's illegal and been a ...
Family decides to self-deport to Mexico after 27 years in the U.S.
NBC News· 2025-06-11 21:33
We have to disrupt everything and go back with probably just clothing. The family asked not to be shown on camera but allowed us to record their voices. Her two children, both US citizen, will soon say goodbye to their school, their friends, and the only home they have ever known.I don't really want to go away. I don't really want to go away from this state. She says they have lived with fear for years as an undocumented person in the US of being pulled over, of ICE knocking on their door.But now with fewer ...