Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
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The administration is also moving cases through the immigration courts as quickly as possible, leading to people missing court dates in historically high numbers.
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Having missed their court date, they are being ordered immediately deported.
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Valerie Gonzalez and Sybil Mays Oesterman of the Associated Press reported on August first that overworked judges are often deciding hundreds of cases a day, often making decisions in less than five minutes.
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The administration allowed a contract for legal representation for immigrant children to expire on june thirty first, then offered a one hundred and fifty million dollar no bid contract to a small Texas law firm with no experience in the field, but with close ties to Trump.
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When the story broke, outrage led the law firm to decline the contract.
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Yesterday, federal officials said a third immigrant detained at New Jersey's Delaney Hall has died and
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They said Jose Shahon Raxon experienced a medical emergency on july nineteenth and died in the hospital.
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As part of a new policy to stop reporting the deaths of detainees released from federal custody, DHS said Shahon Raxan had been released from ICE custody on july twenty second.
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On August 10th, ICE published a notice that it would spend up to $20 million on shock gloves that deliver a painful charge of electricity to subdue individuals.
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Jeremy White of Wired reported today that the glove is supposed to subdue someone in three seconds or less, and the manufacturer warns that the device should not be used for longer than fifteen seconds, no more than one pair should be used at the same time on one person, that operators must touch only arms or legs, strictly avoiding head, face, throat,
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head, chest and groin, that gloves must not be used on the elderly, children, pregnant women, or people with severe disabilities, and that the technology must not be used to stop people from talking back, as punishment, or to torture.
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Senator Angus King, an independent of Maine, released a statement saying At a time when the majority of Americans believe that immigration and customs enforcement has been irresponsible in its use of force, the new ICE announcement touting shot gloves begs a crucial question.
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Is ICE genuinely focused on de escalation, or what appears more likely, intimidation of any one critical of their often unlawful conduct?
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King urged every single one of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand up, assert our constitutional authority, and demand answers from ICE on their hiring practices, training, and tactics.
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He continued, I never thought I would see the day when masked and armed men in unmarked cars would be roaming the streets and neighborhoods of America, acting in utter disregard of the legal constraints that are basic to our freedoms.
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It's becoming more and more clear that the stated basis for this gross violation of our rights, that they are ridding our communities of the worst of the worst is a lie, and the real purpose is to establish a national police force to do the bidding of a corrupt and lawless administration.
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It is past time for Congress to do its duty and for once, he said, put country ahead of party.
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The symbol of the administration's immigration crackdown is the attack on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, who came to the US legally and had temporary protected status or TPS.
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During the twenty twenty four presidential campaign, both Trump and his running mate JD Vance, then a senator from Ohio, claimed falsely that the Haitian immigrants who had come to Springfield to fill jobs in manufacturing and food packaging were eating the pets of their native born neighbors.
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Although Republican Governor Mike DeWine defended the immigrants, crediting them for the city's economic renewal, Trump and Vance's claims set off neo Nazi marches and threats that forced schools to close.
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