Not Coming to America
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You know the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli? He's like, you know, the closest thing we have to a living Walt Disney. Not a big fan of AI. When someone years ago showed him an AI animation, he responded, I feel like we are nearing the end times. We humans are losing faith. In ourselves. That did not stop the internet from posting AI generated versions of themselves and just about everything else in Studio Ghibli style last week. And the White House even got in on the action. Their contribution was a Studio Ghibli style version of a real life photo of a woman crying while being arrested by an immigration officer. That comes after a bunch of other White House deportation memes, including a Valentine's Day poem threatening illegal entries with deportation and a post of an ASMR video of a deportation flight. Trump, too, is trying to do the most on immigration, the illegal kind, but also the legal kind. That's ahead on Today Explained.
Megan Rapinoe here. This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, Answers to Life's 20 Questions. Plus, we've got some fun and important updates from The W and the NWSL, and of course, we've got a new Are You a Megan or Are You a Sue? Check out the latest episode of A Touch More wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube.
Michelle Hackman writes about immigration for the Wall Street Journal. Lately, that's meant writing about people who are here illegally, sure, but also people who are here totally legally. We asked her how to make sense of all that.
The way that you have to understand what's going on overarchingly is that Trump promised a mass deportation, right? He talked about this all through the campaign.
Starting on day one, I will seal the border and stop the migrant invasion into our country. We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.
He promised huge numbers. He was going to go after 15 million people, 20 million people. And from my perspective, he's not meeting that goal. And one way that he's making up for it is by going for these really big, flashy displays that are going to catch a lot of attention and scare people. That's basically what they're designed to do.
So it's essentially like vibes like he wants the vibes to be we are resetting the conversation on deportations. Right. Is it happening across the country? It seems like it's been focused on East Coast universities and points of entries. But what's the what's the broad picture look like?
I think we're seeing deportations up everywhere. And even the university crackdown, I mean, for sure, you've got to understand that this administration is gleeful about targeting some of the nation's most prestigious universities. But we've seen that crackdown, particularly on universities, spread. I mean, we had an arrest in Minnesota.
What stood out to me was the lack of information. We don't know. We don't know where the student is. We don't know the student's name. We just don't know what happened.
We had one in the South recently. We demand Dr. Suri's release. Free Badr Khan Suri.
Free Badr Khan Suri.
So I think it's much broader than just sort of the few cases that people are hearing about in the news. I think that one of the big things that they're doing, and it's a multi-pronged thing, is that they're going after these international students who allegedly participated in pro-Palestine protests. The Trump administration would say they specifically were doing things that supported Hamas.
if you go apply for a visa right now anywhere in the world let me just send this message out if you apply for a visa to enter the united states and be a student and you tell us that the reason why you're coming to the united states is not just because you want to write op-eds but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities harassing students taking over buildings creating a ruckus
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