#1706 Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation

Air Date 4/26/2025

For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getting exactly what we expected. For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise, and yet, here we are.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Mr. Abrego Garcia - Main Justice - Air Date 4-15-25

KP 2: Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-11-25

KP 3: Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 4-21-25

KP 4: Bukele Goes To Washington w. Roberto Lovato - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-20-25

KP 5: What a photojournalist saw as Venezuelan migrants arrived in El Salvador - 60 Minutes - Air Date 4-6-25

KP 6: Dictator Behind Trump's Notorious El Salvadorian Prison Deportations Wants U.S. Dissents Locked Up - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 4-16-24

KP 7: Trump's Real Plan With El Salvador Revealed - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 4-15-25

KP 8: Sen. Van Hollen on Meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador & Escalating Constitutional Crisis - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-21-25

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On finding glimmers of hope for the future

DEEPER DIVES

SECTION A: DEPORTATION PRACTICES

A1: Hearing For Wrongly Deported Man, Prescription Drug Prices, Harvard Battle Continues - Up First - Air Date 4-16-25

A2: Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt Part 2 - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 4-21-25

A3: Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump from deporting more Venezuelan migrants - PBS Newshour - Air Date 4-19-25

A4: Trumps Deportation Black Hole - Reveal - Air Date 4-12-25

SECTION B: VICTIMS OF REGIME

B1: Trumps Ugly New MS-13 Ramblings Wreck His Case Against Abrego Garcia - The Daily Blast - Air Date 4-21-25

B2: How Trump's immigration policy changes who gets arrested and detained - Consider This from NPR - Air Date 4-11-25

B3: Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants Part 2 - CounterSpin - Air Date 4-11-25

B4: Trump says he's 'so happy' the Supreme Court will hear birthright citizenship case - Associated Press - Air Date 4-17-25

B5: Bait and Switch Mohsen Mahdawis Citizenship Trap - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 4-18-25

B6: Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt Part 3 - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 4-21-25

SECTION C: VENEZUELA AND EL SALVADOR

C1: We Said Farewell Lessons from the Venezuelan Diaspora for Todays America with Amanda Quintero Aguerrevere - Secular Left - Air Date 4-2-25

C2: Venezuelan Crisis The Long History Of U.S. Intervention - AJ - Air Date 2-12-19

C3: We Said Farewell Lessons from the Venezuelan Diaspora for Todays America with Amanda Quintero Aguerrevere Part 2 - Secular Left - Air Date 4-2-25

C4: Bukele Goes To Washington w. Roberto Lovato Part 2 - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-20-25

C5: Trumps Deportation Black Hole Part 2 - Reveal - Air Date 4-12-25

SECTION D: RESISTANCE

D1: Mr. Abrego Garcia Part 2 - Main Justice - Air Date 4-15-25

D2: Bait and Switch Mohsen Mahdawis Citizenship Trap Part 2 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 4-18-25

D3: Are Democrats taking Trump's bait - No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 4-20-25

D4: Trump gets UNEXPECTED SURPRISE from El Salvador - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 4-21-25

D5: Its working Van Hollen, Booker, AOC see big results from standing up - MSNBC - Air Date 4-20-25

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