It’s a dark day on today’s BradCast, as hate crimes continue to rise across the country and Donald Trump’s Administration issues new, radical guidelines on the detention and deportation of immigrants. [Audio link to show posted below.]
Wendy Feliz of the American Immigration Council joins us to help unpack the Department of Homeland Security’s disturbing new instructions to law enforcement regarding the arrest and deportation of virtually any undocumented immigrant at any time for any reason, including the most minor of crimes or even just a suspicion of such crimes.
The memos issued today are “sort of our worst fears realized,” she explains, before detailing the “very stark and very punitive” measures that are “broader than is almost imaginable.”
“Essentially, they’ve done away with all the priority enforcement memos that were written under the Obama Administration, whereby they were trying to narrow down who was deportable. That’s just basic Law Enforcement 101 — the idea that if you go after jaywalkers with the same force that you go after bank robbers, then you’re not really doing a good job of stopping people that pose a real threat to society.”
Feliz goes into the troubling details of the orders — which, she charges, are “going to be very disruptive, and potentially disastrous to the economy” — and the madness of attempting to allocate law enforcement resources for the expulsion of 400,000 people for 11 million instead. Those numbers will now include both children and those who came here as children and had received legal federal work permits under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We also discuss what is likely to be an explosion of litigation in response to the orders (“Make American litigate again,” Feliz quips) and what it is that those directly affected by these new mandates must now do in order to try and both defend and protect themselves.
Also today, the unprecedented string of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the nation continues, with the organizations now reportedly targeted in at least 26 states since the first of the year, and some 200 headstones desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri (the one where my grandparents are buried, in fact).
On the upside, Donald Trump has finally spoken out, sort of, against the string of anti-Semitic events and has also appointed someone who is not insane to be the next National Security Advisor following last week’s resignation/firing of Michael Flynn.
Desi Doyen joins us once again for the latest Green News Report on the confirmation of EPA enemy Scott Pruitt as the next head of the EPA and with some good news on wind energy. Finally, we close with a bit of breaking good news from the courts concerning guns…
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“…(T)he unprecedented string of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the nation continues….”
A friend of mine had to evacuate a JCC with her class of little ones. This is the same place I used to attend with a girlfriend who had just completed her time in the IDF.
BARUCH HASHEM
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US Muslim community campaigns to repair Jewish cemetery
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Marvin Jones @ #1
That’s sounds exactly what happened to a friend of ours here in Long Beach a couple of weeks ago. Due to a solid plan, the evacuation went off with out a hitch. She said next time she will have more toys, games, etc. to occupy the kids while they wait in the safe zone.
I used to go to the Jewish community center for art class when I was young. What the hell is going on?
Larry, the bigots feel they have license to speak and act. But they have badly miscalculated. People are not intimidated; they are incensed.
Trump is to blame for the hooliganism. Just what the country needed. Shame on the Republicans for not doing something about this.
This guy never heard the rule about what to do when you find yourself in a hole.
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