Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
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And they go back to the negotiating table.
with the White House and with Republicans, and they come up with a kind of compromise bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security that includes things like $20 million for body cameras and requirements that officers get enhanced training about use of force and de-escalation techniques.
Right.
They know they didn't get everything they wanted, but they feel like this is a pretty good compromise.
They're very committed to going through the regular funding process.
And they say, this is as good as we can get, and it's better to have some restrictions than no restrictions.
Gotcha.
And that bill is making its way through Congress and hasn't yet cleared the Senate when federal immigration agents kill Alex Preddy in Minnesota.
And at that moment, the politics of this issue really changed for Democrats.
And the video of Alex Preddy's shooting spreads very quickly and outrages Democrats.
And the party comes out almost unanimously to say that they will not back any new funding for ICE or other immigration agencies unless they can get serious new restrictions that prevent anything like this from happening to an American citizen ever again.
We have seen with our own eyes how citizens and peaceful protesters... And you start to see striking statements from people like Senator Patty Murray, who is the top Democrat on the committee that negotiates funding bills, and who had said that she was going to support this bill that she had helped negotiate.
But as soon as the Preti shooting happens, she says, we need to go further and we need to do more.
— And you see Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, come out and say that he believes that this bill doesn't go far enough.
— I don't like shutdowns, but obviously this is important.
— And you see a lot of Democrats who usually oppose shutdowns start to demand new conditions.
Who say that they can't support a bill, even at the risk of a shutdown, if it doesn't impose serious new restrictions on ICE.
So Democrats have a number of demands that they're making, but chief among them is a requirement that federal immigration officers visibly show their identification and that they can't be allowed to use masks to hide their identities from the public.
That's right.
They're arguing that if you make officers be more public about their identities, it might have an impact on their conduct and make them think about how they're interacting with members of the public.
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