Jonathan Blitzer

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The Bulwark Daily · Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

What's happening in Cuba is the same sort of dynamic.

I mean, it's just basically like immiserating the population and the connection, the kind of notional connection between restoring democracy and doing what is in the best interests of the

you know, the, the populations of these countries is just out the window.

And so if you're a Cuban or if you're a Venezuelan right now, and you're in the United States, you're in, you're experiencing the worst of all possible worlds because you're basically being dispossessed on both sides.

And that's how you end up with, you know, Cubans in Mexico or, you know, Venezuelans right now, you know, living in the shadows, because even though they had temporary protected status, even though Marco Rubio is Senator, whatever, four years ago, uh,

described that being deported to Venezuela would be a death sentence to those who had TPS.

Now, the administration doesn't much care.

And so I kind of think what you're seeing is essentially on steroids, the hypocrisy.

I mean, the really horrific American hypocrisy that's been a fact in the region now for decades.

For all the horrors of this, I have to say, it's like obviously reporting this, it's extremely upsetting.

But then there are also these moments where people, just the ingenuity and the resilience and the sense of commitment of people.

I mean, like what you're describing now is how in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge,

people were getting arrested and sent immediately to El Paso.

And their immigration lawyers couldn't apply for habeas to get them out of detention because they weren't licensed in Texas to practice law.

And so all these people come out of the woodwork, people who don't typically work on immigration matters, who are just aghast at what's happening.

And so I do think that when ordinary people are exposed to these horrors, you see them respond in extraordinary ways.

And that does give me hope, honestly.

I mean, it's, it's maybe not as much as we'd like to cling to, but it's real, but it's real.

I don't know, man.

I don't know.

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