Radley Balko
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The ICE Age of Surveillance and Enforcement · 28 Jan 2026
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They're going to get qualified immunity, which is still great, but not absolute immunity.
And that would be, I think, a really important step forward.
I'm going to burn my exercise bike.
Right.
Like we never would have seen the CEO of Raytheon, you know, giving lectures about the Antichrist.
Right.
I mean, I think you're right.
Like this is an entirely like different class.
That's a lie.
Well, I would, yeah, this is my optimistic take, I guess, which is that
I've been doing a lot of reporting on immigration.
It's not something I reported on a lot in my career, but that's required me to kind of bone up.
But it's also required me to watch a lot of these really horrific videos that we're seeing.
And I've taken in a lot of them, and it can be a little overwhelming sometimes, nothing compared to what the people are actually going through.
But I will say that the thing that has just really inspired and invigorated me is exactly what you're talking about, which is
I first saw it in Chicago because that was where I first kind of started covering this in depth.
And going into the Facebook pages of these whistle brigades and these groups and seeing people that I went to college with who have never been political in their lives who are now –
you know, setting up online, you know, data spreadsheets for who's going to go to the local school to chaperone immigrant kids back home so they don't get arrested.
Who's going to do the laundry for these immigrant groups who are afraid to leave their homes?
Who's going to, like, get groceries for them?
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