Nick Valencia
speaker
549 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 May
Nick Valencia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The shaky cell phone footage.
The agents in plain clothes.
A person is grabbed, handcuffed, and put in the back of an unmarked vehicle.
And then the video ends.
But that's when the real story begins.
The moment that door slams shut, the meter starts running.
Not metaphorically, literally.
And that industry runs on human beings.
Every day they stay locked up, the meter keeps running.
And here's the part that should stop you cold.
Many of these people in custody, they haven't even been convicted of a crime.
Some haven't even been charged.
Yeah, this started back in the 1980s and has just really expanded.
And it expanded under President Obama.
President Obama was really sort of at the middle of allowing these private prison companies to flourish.
But it's under President Trump that it's been all gas, no brakes.
And you saw the numbers there.
On average, we have about 40,000 immigrants in detention per year.
That's what it's historically been in this country.
And just take a guess.
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