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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The goal is to instill fear.
The goal is to make entire immigrant communities – to scare the shit out of them, to make them not want to live their lives, to make them tell their relatives to stay home because it's too miserable here.
It is to scare people.
It's to make them suffer.
I mean this administration has openly said that they want immigrants to suffer as much as possible because they want them to self-deport.
They want them to leave.
They don't want to have to go through –
whatever due process they still are willing to afford these people, that's expensive.
Yeah, we're in a hotel with a lot of other dog owners, so Oscar, here's some people outside, but it's okay.
So I'll say I think there's a little bit of both.
I think that they are – they've clearly lowered their hiring standards for these agencies.
They've put Border Patrol in charge of these operations, which is –
pretty well known as being kind of the, was one former ICE person told me, you know, the FBI is kind of the varsity team.
ICE and HSI are the junior varsity and Border Patrol is kind of like the drunken office softball team.
And like, that's basically who the administration has put in charge of everything.
It's mission creep, but it's also because they – Border Patrol has a long reputation of being rogue, of being extremely abusive, of not having much accountability.
And I think this gets to the second point, which that is who the administration wants in charge of this.
They want to inflict terror.
They want to scare people.
They want people to be miserable.
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