Michelle Hackman
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509 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 25 Mar
Michelle Hackman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Where ICE has had some problems is the officer will say, okay, let me go back to your kitchen and interview your employees.
That's when a restaurant owner can say, I'm sorry, no, that's private property.
You can't go there.
But if ICE shows up with a warrant or if ICE is doing an employer inspection to say, I need to see the paperwork of your employees to see if they're working here legally or
The private business has to comply with that sort of law enforcement action.
The other thing I would add is that they're beyond what's legal.
A lot of these places are facing really public pressure.
For example, Hilton a few weeks ago had a hotel in Minneapolis refuse ICE officers to stay at their hotel.
And Hilton got so much blowback.
As long as you're an observer, you're free to do whatever you want.
You are legally allowed to record that interaction.
As long as you don't intervene in the interaction, you are OK.
I don't think it's going to be sort of at the same level as Minneapolis, partially because there are fewer officers and they're targeting the entire state.
In Minneapolis, what really made that operation so remarkable, and it's still ongoing, is that you have a relatively small city of about 400,000 people and 3,000 ICE officers there.
A lot of these visas actually go to companies.
There's sort of a whole business model that's sprung up around the H-1B visa of sort of IT companies who staff almost their entire companies with primarily Indian men on H-1B visas.
And their model is that they do IT a little bit cheaper than a lot of companies' in-house IT offices.
And so what's happened over the last 20 or 30 years is that a lot of companies have actually laid off their internal IT and hired these sort of IT external companies on H-1B visas to come work for them instead.
When Trump takes office, he obviously has all of this anti-immigrant rhetoric.
You know, Mexicans are rapists and refugees are all terrorists.
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