Radley Balko

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The ICE Age of Surveillance and Enforcement · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

They flat out said the reason for family separation during the first term –

They wanted people to know that if you come to the United States seeking political asylum, we're going to rip your children out of your arms.

We want you to suffer because we don't want you to come here anymore.

And if you're already here, we want you to suffer because we want you to leave voluntarily.

When I wrote the Warrior Cop book, I did a lot of research on the founding era and kind of why we have these traditions of not letting the military service domestic police and why we have a castle doctrine and all of that.

And part of that, I found archives from a Boston newspaper when the British had put troops in the streets of Boston to do sort of day-to-day policing.

And

You go through those archives, and I just wrote about this on my newsletter, and you can find excerpts, and they go on for years and years.

The descriptions – it was sort of like a social media feed of the time, like an old-timey – it was like firsthand accounts of like a soldier got into a – Twitter by pamphleteer sort of.

Right, right.

Yeah.

But you look at the scenes described in those accounts and they are remarkably similar to what we're seeing coming out of Minneapolis.

And I think that's in part because this is an age-old problem of you don't have – you don't put the military in the middle of cities to police their own people.

Yeah.

You know, the anger from the tension in Boston of having those soldiers there are why it eventually will lead to the Boston Massacre.

But it is specifically why we have a second, third, and fourth amendment, because you had soldiers who had these general warrants.

They had the power to break into anybody's home at any time to look for untaxed goods, right?

Well, what's ICE trying to do now?

They're claiming they could break into anybody's home at any time without a warrant to look for

undocumented people.

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