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Rachel Maddow

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The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He is a junior in high school. He plays the drums in the high school band. He takes honors classes. He gets good grades. He's been in the local school system since kindergarten. His family knows everybody in town and everybody knows him. He and his family go to a local church. He has a girlfriend. He's popular. He likes cars. And he's really good at sports.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He is a junior in high school. He plays the drums in the high school band. He takes honors classes. He gets good grades. He's been in the local school system since kindergarten. His family knows everybody in town and everybody knows him. He and his family go to a local church. He has a girlfriend. He's popular. He likes cars. And he's really good at sports.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

Even though he's a high school junior, he helps coach the girls volleyball team at his high school. And he himself is on the varsity boys volleyball team. And they're a good team. And they work really hard. They're the kind of high school volleyball team that doesn't just practice after school. This weekend, for example, they had an early morning 7.45 a.m. practice.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

Even though he's a high school junior, he helps coach the girls volleyball team at his high school. And he himself is on the varsity boys volleyball team. And they're a good team. And they work really hard. They're the kind of high school volleyball team that doesn't just practice after school. This weekend, for example, they had an early morning 7.45 a.m. practice.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

I played sports in high school and I was into it, but do you know the likelihood of me in high school being at a 7.45 a.m. practice on a Saturday morning? I mean, I was into it, but I was not that into it. But this guy is a high school junior. His name is Marcelo. And this Saturday morning, he was on time, on his way to that 7.45 a.m. volleyball practice Saturday morning.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

I played sports in high school and I was into it, but do you know the likelihood of me in high school being at a 7.45 a.m. practice on a Saturday morning? I mean, I was into it, but I was not that into it. But this guy is a high school junior. His name is Marcelo. And this Saturday morning, he was on time, on his way to that 7.45 a.m. volleyball practice Saturday morning.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He was carpooling with some of his teammates to that early morning practice. But then they didn't turn up. And his coaches thought, obvious answer. The guys must have, you know, overslept or something. But then ultimately, one of the boys that morning got through to the coach. He texted him. And he told the coach, hey, they arrested Marcelo. These kids were carpooling.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He was carpooling with some of his teammates to that early morning practice. But then they didn't turn up. And his coaches thought, obvious answer. The guys must have, you know, overslept or something. But then ultimately, one of the boys that morning got through to the coach. He texted him. And he told the coach, hey, they arrested Marcelo. These kids were carpooling.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

They were on the way to early morning volleyball practice Saturday morning. And Trump's immigration agents pulled them over and they arrested this kid, Marcelo. Again, he is a high school junior. They said they weren't after him. They said they were looking for somebody else. But they took him. This is a kid with... No criminal record at all.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

They were on the way to early morning volleyball practice Saturday morning. And Trump's immigration agents pulled them over and they arrested this kid, Marcelo. Again, he is a high school junior. They said they weren't after him. They said they were looking for somebody else. But they took him. This is a kid with... No criminal record at all.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He is not known to have ever been in any kind of trouble at all. Again, he is a high school junior honors student on the volleyball team and in the high school band. They took him. They've taken him to an immigration prison all alone. They reportedly are trying to move him now to another immigration prison that is farther from home.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He is not known to have ever been in any kind of trouble at all. Again, he is a high school junior honors student on the volleyball team and in the high school band. They took him. They've taken him to an immigration prison all alone. They reportedly are trying to move him now to another immigration prison that is farther from home.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He does have a lawyer arguing for him to try to get him before a federal judge to try to get him out. But that is who Trump's agents took on Saturday morning in Milford, Massachusetts. Saturday morning is when they arrested him. Sunday morning, it was graduation day at Milford High School.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

He does have a lawyer arguing for him to try to get him before a federal judge to try to get him out. But that is who Trump's agents took on Saturday morning in Milford, Massachusetts. Saturday morning is when they arrested him. Sunday morning, it was graduation day at Milford High School.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

And at the graduation ceremony in Milford, Sunday morning, the valedictorian spoke and the class president spoke. And then as soon as the ceremony was over, the whole school marched straight from the graduation ceremony over to the Milford Town Hall to go protest, to try to get Marcelo back.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

And at the graduation ceremony in Milford, Sunday morning, the valedictorian spoke and the class president spoke. And then as soon as the ceremony was over, the whole school marched straight from the graduation ceremony over to the Milford Town Hall to go protest, to try to get Marcelo back.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

It's not a common thing to see kids in their graduation gowns at a protest, right? But that's what happened this weekend, yesterday morning. Graduating seniors, tons of kids from all the schools in town, parents, teachers, the whole town basically turned out. They held these signs that said, he belongs here and hands off our kids.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

It's not a common thing to see kids in their graduation gowns at a protest, right? But that's what happened this weekend, yesterday morning. Graduating seniors, tons of kids from all the schools in town, parents, teachers, the whole town basically turned out. They held these signs that said, he belongs here and hands off our kids.

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

The local Democratic state senator, her name is Becca Rauch, she was there. She spoke to the crowd. The local Democratic congressman, Jake Ochenkloss, was there. That was Milford, Massachusetts this weekend. may remember from a couple of weeks ago, that really, really chaotic scene that unfolded in Newark, New Jersey. Do you remember at the gates of the immigration prison in Newark?

The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump makes a gross miscalculation about the popularity of his cruelty to immigrants

The local Democratic state senator, her name is Becca Rauch, she was there. She spoke to the crowd. The local Democratic congressman, Jake Ochenkloss, was there. That was Milford, Massachusetts this weekend. may remember from a couple of weeks ago, that really, really chaotic scene that unfolded in Newark, New Jersey. Do you remember at the gates of the immigration prison in Newark?

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