Radley Balko

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278 appearances 1 recordings 1 series 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 podcast

You know, there were spreadsheets about where people were writing down when ICE was at home depot so immigrants who, you know, make their living in construction could go get supplies without having to worry about being arrested.

I mean...

I found it – I mean, in Minneapolis, you had 50,000 to 100,000 people come out in zero-degree weather, right, because they were angry about what ICE was doing to their communities and what it was doing to their neighbors.

I mean, this is – it's –

All the major elite institutions have just completely buckled and it's been really disillusioning, overwhelming, disheartening to watch.

But man, on the flip side of that, watching people stand up, just individual regular people putting their bodies on the line, putting their

No, no.

Look, I think you're exactly right about the system.

I also think you're exactly right that this is –

on some level, you have a president who's literally called immigrants, it's said immigrants poison the blood of the country, right?

Who calls people out exercising their rights, domestic terrorists, and then who sends these officers who have been recruited with white nationalist propaganda out into these communities and tells them that they have complete immunity for anything they do.

I mean, that's a recipe for violence, right?

We should be surprised by what we're seeing.

However, I guess the point that I was trying to get at is that

I do think that people making themselves heard is working.

It is forcing Trump to backtrack from his defense of the murder of Alex – Preddy.

Preddy, yes.

Yeah.

It's forcing them to backtrack from that.

And it's also – look at polling.

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