Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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citizen, he is the family's...
kind of emissary to the outside world during moments like this.
I mean, he is the only one, basically, who is on unquestioned legal footing.
I'm glad it called out to that detail because it's incredibly striking detail.
I mean, even before the current Trump administration, ICE has engaged in practices that are, you know, misleading, probably to put it most politely, to try to convince people, say, to open their doors and so on.
But what we're seeing now, of course, is a level of unfettered behavior that...
certainly I haven't seen in my lifetime, which is, you know, not only plainclothes agents in, you know, wearing masks, driving, you know, unmarked cars, essentially abducting people on the streets.
That's right.
That's right.
In this case, you know, Lydia and this other man are being held in this van.
And the idea is to try to cause as little outward disruption as possible while these agents continue to try to make more arrests.
And Alexis, her son, does
drives over to the site of where she was arrested immediately.
He gets there while they're still taking her away.
He says to them, listen, I'm a member of the National Guard.
He's a member of the Minnesota National Guard.
And in fact, last year, Lydia had put in a special application for a form of legal relief based on the fact that he was a member of the Minnesota National Guard.
I don't I don't know.
In this case, I have to say plainly, I don't I don't know.
I mean, I do think one of the scariest things for hundreds of thousands of people who are in this country actually lawfully.
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