Which brings me to my next guest, Jacob Soberoff. Jacob has spent years on the ground in communities across the country, across the world actually, telling so many stories, but this one in particular. The story of the cruelty and the human cost of Donald Trump's anti-immigrant program.Not as an abstraction, not through Washington punditry, but through the lived experiences of everyday Americans navigating it in real time. Now, as many of you have probably heard by now, I will be leaving this My Namesake Wee ...

how do you see this transition from Bovino to hom Sure. I see it as an escalation because the only appropriate response after what happened to Alex Preddy was for ICE and CBP to leave the area. There's never been any reason for there to be thousands of federal agents on the ground now when I see Holman, I see the architect of family separation under Trump's first administration.So I see someone who knows how to perhaps do things more quietly, but that does not mean that they will not continue you to harass ...

Immigration Policy & Enforcement - The Trump administration's immigration policies are leading to family separations, including cases where children are separated from their parents after routine ICE check-ins [1][5][8] - Critics accuse the administration of using children as pawns and engaging in mass deportations disguised as family separations [1][11] - The current administration's actions are being compared to historical policies, such as Dwight D Eisenhower's deportation of approximately 1 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans [12] Community Response & Legal Rights - Communities are protesting family separations and demanding answers from the government [1] - Legal experts and city officials are advising immigrants on their rights, including the right to remain silent and the need for a judicial warrant for ICE to enter private spaces [16][17] - Organizations are conducting training sessions to educate people about their rights and how to respond to ICE encounters [19][20] Detention & Deportation Trends - Approximately 70,000 people without criminal records have been detained, despite attempting to comply with the administration's requirements [15] - There are concerns that increased detentions and deportations are occurring, particularly during the holiday season [14] - During the first Trump administration, 5,500 children were deliberately separated from their parents at the border [10]

If Donald Trump's political power lies in being able to convince his supporters of anything and everything, then loud public dissent from inside his coalition, from prominent MAGA influencers, might be the thing that will melt his carefully crafted alternative fact-based reality faster than the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz. And that is exactly what is starting to happen with his brutal and ugly and clunky and wildly unpopular mass deportation scheme. The sight and the sound and the smells of heavily arm ...