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

Because to get the worst of the worst, those are the people who are not showing up for court hearings, right?

Those are the people who are in hiding.

And so it takes investigation, it takes resources, it takes eight to 10 man teams to go out and track these people down and arrest them.

And so what you saw is very early on, you saw Stephen Miller, there's a

sort of infamous reported meeting that he had where he was screaming at people and saying, we need to be raiding Home Depot parking lots.

We need to be casting these wide nets in the community.

And the other thing that I think is really, you know, the really damning thing is, you know, for a long time, ICE prioritized the worst of the worst.

Like that was who

directed our resources at.

And that makes perfect sense.

When Trump took office in 2016, one of the first things he did was deprioritize going after the worst of the worst and prioritize going after migrants.

So people who were here seeking asylum, people who didn't have a criminal record.

Biden revoked that policy and then Trump, within his first week of office last year, put it back in place.

And so they aren't targeting the worst of the worst.

They are going out and getting whoever they can, wherever they can,

They're going to places where, you know, every stereotypical kind of racist asshole thinks all the illegals are, right?

Those are the places where they're going.

I mean I think we are.

I mean one of the things that really struck me before Rene Good, there was a man in Chicago who was killed in a remarkably similar situation.

He had just dropped his kid off at school.

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