Jacob Soboroff
speaker
239 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 17 Jan
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That's fair.
It's part of the culture.
It is ingrained in the culture there.
They have a word for hitting...
migrants over the head with a flashlight.
Go read Francisco Canto's The Line Becomes a River.
I'm not going to say it, but it's the noise that it makes.
This is just the extrapolation of the decades of deterrence-based, bipartisan-based immigration policy that treats people who are looking to come here for a better life as criminals, as if they are doing something wrong.
And you're watching the most radical extension of it ever play out on the streets of America right now.
It is amazing how how in the wake of the fires, the intersection of all of this is so clear to me.
And I often say when a huge.
mass casualty event like this happens or family separation, you get x-ray vision to understand the fissures that are beneath our society.
After the fires in LA, the costliest wildfire event in American history, the undocumented population was uniquely vulnerable.
Gavin Newsom said to me, and you can read about it in the book after I interviewed him for Meet the Press, he pulled me aside off camera and said, I'm worried about the incoming administration's policy priorities on immigration, how they're going to affect the recovery.
Well, guess what?
Where are they targeting the most?
Home Depot parking lots, not the worst of the worst, but people who are looking to go out and get an honest day's work.
They're going out to the construction sites, the places that are literally the places that will bring Los Angeles back.
And as you said, these policies have real world consequences, including in Los Angeles, where they're trying to recover to this very day.
And the Trump administration is making it harder.
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