WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #1 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:10.560 Cool Zone Media Welcome, there could happen here. We decided 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.080 every week you were going to do in episode called 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.200 Executive Disorders White House Weekly, where we report the news, 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:24.360 and today we are going to start that episode. We 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.120 have the entire full time team here. We have Mio Wong, 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:32.280 Garrison Davis, Robert Evans, James Stout, and I am the 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:33.760 voice in your ear, Sophie Lichterman. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.560 Yeah, and you should know we'll be making a number 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.199 of references to a show you haven't watched, called The 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.120 News Rooms. So many we didn't just pretend we didn't. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.199 Yeah, anyways, let's do the episode now go. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:47.440 Yeah. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:48.960 So this episode's also going to be a little bit 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.760 different because the idea is to cover each week of 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.000 stuff that's happening visa via the White House. And it's 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.080 been two weeks since since Inauguration Day, and we are 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.640 recording usually on Wednesdays, so the you know, a day 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.920 or two there that we will record the week after. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.360 But we have a whole bunch of stuff today because 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.760 we are covering essentially two weeks. All start with some 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:14.319 of the transgender executive orders that happened last week. There 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:20.039 was an order defining two sexes assigned at conception, which 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.520 made plenty of biologists scratch their heads. A lot of 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.199 this is just going to impact the ability to change 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.199 your gender marker on federal documents for the next four years, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.679 you know, passports also removing the ex gender marker from 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.640 federal documents. There's also a new directive that Pride flags 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.720 are not to be flown on federal buildings. Also a 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.160 separate one I don't think we have included here in 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.120 the research doc but how brutalist and modernist architecture is 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.960 now not allowed to be used on new federal buildings. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.880 You have to use Greek or Roman inspired architecture because 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.880 they project power. So all of those, like Greek have 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.080 what our statue Twitter accounts have a complete cultural victory. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:09.520 Now, uh great, I am going to agitate to replace 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.400 the Oregon State capital with just a statue of a 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.000 Roman orgy. You know, we don't even need place for 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.440 the legislators. Just look at the statue and you'll know 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:17.880 what to do. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.919 This actually is like bad, you know, very very nineteen thirties, you. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.240 Know, yeah, yeah, famously no other regimes have hawken back 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.640 to Clauds Calera well. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.119 And specifically is like calling like you know, modern architecture, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.520 brutalist architecture, as you know, is like weak or bad 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:33.800 or things that get restricted. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:34.800 Yeah. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.760 On a more somber note, part of this two sex 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.679 that conception thing also means that a whole bunch of 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.360 trans women are now being sent to men's prisons. And 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.760 like a lot of this stuff is stuff that we 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.040 knew was going to happen, and it did happen quite immediately. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.720 Yeah, and this is just the start. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.680 I guess we'll throw over to MIA for some more 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.360 executive action done on the WOKA gender ideology angle. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.920 Yeah, but by the time we're finished recording this, there 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.320 might be another anti trans executive order. We'll get to 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.440 that end. But the big ones for right now is 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.880 that Trump is trying to do a and this is 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.880 something we talked about in our in our last episode 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.239 about what's gonna look like with trans people, but a 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:19.200 federal funding ban for trans healthcare, which means for for 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.440 youth trans healthcare, which means any provider that like gets 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.480 federal funding and this and this includes things like taking 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.880 Medicare and Medicaid right those like hospitals can't do any 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.919 kind of gender for a main care for youth. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:33.840 Part of what's sort of terrifying. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.720 I mean, there's a lot of terrible stuff about this, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.360 but they've they've defined a kid as age nineteen. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:40.760 Or under the age of nineteen. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.840 Yeah, under the age of nineteen. Yeah. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.840 Obviously, like that gives you know, worries for stuff that 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.400 we've been talking about for years for how they might 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.200 try to start bumping up the age for these for 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.840 these HRT bands. This also could be them not really 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.240 realizing what they're doing to some extent, because this could 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.800 also just be copying I believe in Alabama or Arkansas 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.920 ban and that was like the highest age used in 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.520 any of these like state healthcare bans. They could just 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.240 be copying that over because it is the highest one. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.640 And like I'm not sure how much they've like thought about, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.720 you know, their capacity to start like you know, arbitrarily 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:15.680 raising that number. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.640 I mean, part of what I think is happening, and 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.560 I think this because this was definitely at play in 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.520 the Alabama ban is this is, in addition to being 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.920 an attack on trans people, part of a broader set 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.400 of messaging towards the Parents' Ranks movement, which very much 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.960 does not consider eighteen year olds to be adults. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.719 Totally, totally, yeah. And on that note, one of the 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.320 things they're trying to do is target states that have 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.600 like transanctuary laws by trying to like get parents who 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.760 take their kids to save states like charged on kidnapping 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.280 charges and so forth, noting supposedly later today there's going 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.839 to be one about using the Charney General's Office to 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.320 work with the charity generals in states who prosecute teachers 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.680 to use gender firming pronouns as like sexual users. And 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.200 I want to point out like these executive orders specifically, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.160 like the second raft of them that I've been talking about, 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.600 Like these are all unbelievably legal, right, yeah, Like these 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.920 are probably not going to get implemented immediately because there's 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.279 immediately going to go to the courts, Like the Supreme 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.240 Court will probably give them some of it. But like 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.080 you can't just like declare something a crime and have 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.960 the Attorney General prosecute people for it. Like that specific 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.560 thing is genuinely so ridiculous that it might not survive 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.719 the Supreme Court. It's nonsense. But things that aren't nonsense, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.480 and this is something you genuinely can do that's very dangerous. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.279 Is he's trying to get and this is from per 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.640 Aaron Reid. He's a trans journalist, does pretty good work 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.920 on this stuff. The federal government has been instructed to 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.960 not follow w PATH guidelines or WPATH is this sort 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.680 of organization that sets the guidelines for like trends healthcare 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.039 and this. We don't know what this is going to do. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.000 There is a chance that this could endanger private like 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.760 Healthcare covering it because they follow the government using WPATH. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.599 So that's extremely extremely bad. But again, and this is 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.520 going to be a running theme in the next section 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.600 of this. A lot of this is stuff that he 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.800 shouldn't need Congress for and he's just trying to do 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.760 it because he thinks that he can and he doesn't 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:09.240 give a shit. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.480 Well, and it's just signaling to the base even if 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.800 it gets stopped, like he's I think, I don't think 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.400 he cares if decent chunks that it gets stopped. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.520 He tried to do the thing. Yeah, I agree with Robert. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.520 Yeah, he can now shift the blame to someone else. Look, man, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.680 I did the executive order, which honestly is what Biden 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.919 should have done on some stuff, right, fuck it? Ye 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.440 make the statement, you know. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.840 Yeah, yeah, so speaking of fuck it, let's get into 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.599 this whole, this whole freezing the entire federal government thing. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.279 We're gonna do a more detailed episode about this next week. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:41.359 But maybe the. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.040 Most unhanged thing that he's done so far than the 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.919 birthright stuff, he did an executive order that's telling everyone 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.560 they can't fund DEI. Yeah, early this week, the US 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.120 Office of Personnel Management sent out this memo to everyone 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.159 telling them that, like all grant programs are frozen until 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.680 they submit a like they submitted a description of like 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.880 what the grant program is and why it's not DEI 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.520 and so like think things that were like fucked by this, right. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.640 I have a few of these programs and they were 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.480 the grants they were shutting down. Here, the Nicholas and 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:19.280 Zachary Burt Memorial carbon Monoxide Poisoning Program, WHOA, the National 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.560 School Lunch Program, Special Milk Program for children, the Supplemental 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.440 Nutrition Program for Women, infants, and children, the do d's 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.760 Basic and Applied Scientific Research Grants DEI DI. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.600 It's even got a D right in there. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.400 That's right, like one of these and this is a 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.760 very serious one at least for these people holding onto 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.600 power was the National Guard's military operation and maintenance samously low, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.080 which like it's like it's like eight billion dollars of 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.160 money to the National Guard. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.440 Hey, critical support. He got one thing right. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.680 The way that you can tell that none of these people, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.200 and the thing is a sign of is that none 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.239 of these people have any idea what's going on inside 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.640 of the state. They don't understand what it is. They 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.840 don't understand what it does. And I can prove this 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.840 for a fact because one of the programs that they 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:08.480 froze was a program that gives money to police to 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.520 do patrols outside of a nuclear weapons assembly plan. Joey, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.360 they defunded the nuke police, Like. 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:17.960 Check the Signal Loop gang. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.320 I think I got a plan based on that we're 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.720 gonna become the first nuclear armed podcasting network. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.520 So so like I think I think people have this 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.160 conception that, like, you know, they're operating according to a plan. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.760 These are all sort of strategic like strokes and masters strokes, 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.400 and like no, they're just they're just lashing out right, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.600 They're driven by pure anger and they're trying to do 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.520 this purge of the government of anything woke or whatever, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.120 like anything that's like vaguely involves non white people or 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.280 just like anyone who's not assists white dude they're trying 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:54.760 to get rid of. Yeah, and this memo was immediately 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.480 challenged in court because it's also this is also hideously illegal. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.360 The president doesn't control the purse strings. That's like, you know, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.120 in the Constitution, it says that Congress controls this. So 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:09.720 where we're at now is that the memo has been withdrawn, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.600 but there's there's a bunch of really conflicting information where 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.959 like Trump spokespeople are saying that they're still going to 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.800 go through with the executive orders. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.400 They're probably gonna try to rewrite it. They might make 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.640 it more targeted against you know, woke whatever that means. Yeah, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.760 it may not be as like broad as this as 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.280 this initial memo, but they're certainly going to try again. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.440 But the problem that they have is that there's there 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.640 are literally so many of these grants and the read 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.000 the reason they did it this way in the first 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:36.760 place was because they just they just they found a 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.079 list of grants, they copied all of them, and they 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.200 were like, okay, departments, you have to go figure this out, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:42.720 and we're freezing your stuff until you do that. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.280 Even Medicaid was frozen for a few hours yesterday. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:46.040 Yeah. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.880 Right, Like, they effectively nuked most of the capacity of 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.480 the federal governments, and it's going to take a lot 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.080 of effort for them to sort through which of these 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.280 things they could afford to turn off so that they 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.440 don't end up like turning off the nuke police. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:04.680 Right, Yeah, critical support to abolishing the nuclear security. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.320 Yeah, they did what Biden couldn't do. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.800 Yeah, let's go on a quick ad break and then 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:26.959 we will return to report more of the news. All right, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.600 we are back. I guess I will turn over to 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.520 our Immigration and Border correspondent, James Stout. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:33.079 That's me. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:34.760 Yes, please report the news. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.120 I'm ready to report the news. I have never been 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.000 more ready. Okay, this is going to be a long 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.920 run because there was a raft of executive orders about 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.520 the border in the flurry flurry Yeah, sound the word 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.280 we're allowed to use a flurry Okay, we can use 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.080 a murder like crows, you know the connective down for crows. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.920 I mean this is going to result in a murder. Yeah. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:56.120 Yeah. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.960 Well, so let's start with a couple of the big ones, right. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.760 The first one was essentially revoking the right to asylum 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.240 to anyone quote engaged in the invasion across the southern 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.920 border end quote. I want to highlight this invasion language 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.880 because obviously, like I'd adventure to say, I've spent more 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.160 time at the southern border of the United States sent 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.280 anyone in the executive branch, and most people reporting on 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.920 it too. The idea of an invasion is laughable. I've 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.640 been at the border twice since Trump was inaugurated. It's 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.160 extremely quiet. I've never seen things more quiet. The only 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.560 remarkable thing I saw was a pig of Vietnamese pop 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.400 Belied Big, which some people have released, which now lives there. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.320 I think it's being rehomed because of some other stuff 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.680 that we will talk about later. But this invasion language 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.720 is important because it's used as a justification for some 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.680 of the things that the executive Branch is doing which 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.680 would otherwise seem to be outside of its authority. It's 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.280 getting the national security encounter terrorism treatment, and anyone who's 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.080 followed US politics for the last twenty years will understand 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.920 that that means an effective waiver for all of your 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.680 constitutional rights. And my have always been people who don't 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.160 have rights, and this is just something that we're now 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.840 seeing like further pushed. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.559 So let's go through some of these orders. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.079 Aside from the effective asylum ban, he directed the United 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.960 States Northern Command to quote unquote seal the border. This 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.120 has resulted in a deployment of about sixteen hundred United 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.520 States troops. Most of them are military police or engineers. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.000 We've got marines, and we've got army in San Diego 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.200 Sectory its first marines out of Pendleton. They're the ones 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:35.839 that I've seen locally. He has directed various government departments 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.680 and the Attorney General to begin quote identifying countries throughout 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.120 the world for which vetting and screening information is so 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.400 deficient as to warrant a partial full suspension on the 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.480 omission of nationals from those countries. This is effectively the 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.920 travel ban that we saw in the first Trap administration, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.319 or a version of that. Right, it's a visa revocation 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.520 or a travel ban for people from certain countries. We 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.640 can guess what those countries will be. At last time, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.880 they were for the most part, majority Muslim countries, right. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.080 And we might well see that again. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:13.640 They have attempted to rescind birthright citizenship for children of 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.760 undocumented families. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:14.960 Right. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.720 This is one if people go back to our like 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.600 what can Trump do for mass deportations podcasts that Robert 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.160 Sophie and I did sometime in November, I think you'll 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.400 get more information there on what is and what is 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.240 not possible than we have time to go into today. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.480 But you're seeing a lot of the things that we 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:35.599 talked about there coming into reality now. I guess specifically, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.160 the attempt to resin birthright citizenship relies on the idea 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.319 that they are not quote unquote under the jurisdiction thereof 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.520 of the United States, which which is how the fourteenth 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.120 Amendment is phrased. Generally, it is understood that people who 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.320 are not considered to be under the jurisdiction of the 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.960 United States and therefore don't get citizenship when they're born 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.160 here are the children of diplomats because they have some 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.920 diplomatic community, right, so they're not necessarily governed by United 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.600 States laws in all areas, and that is why children 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.960 of diplomats don't get citizenship people when they're born here. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.040 The Trump administration is arguing that applies to children of 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.560 undocumented people as well. There are five court cases challenging 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.800 that already so that they've got an upp battle in 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.800 the courts there. He has attempted to restart the Migrant 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.120 Protection Protocol MPP, better known as Remain in Mexico. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:22.480 Right. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.720 The Migrant Protection Protocol requires migrants to wait in Mexico 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.920 whether immigration cases are processed. In practice, it puts them 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:29.600 in a lot of danger. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:29.800 Right. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.240 Some of them are fleeing Mexico. Others are fleeing groups 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.720 or states that can reach them in Mexico, so it 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.320 leaves them in an unsafe place. The other thing he 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.120 did while Trump was still in the inaugural ceremonies literally 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.960 minutes after taking office, was canceling CBP one CBP one. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.920 There is a lot of misinformation about what CBP one is. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.800 CBP one is an application that allowed migrants to make 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.760 an appointment and they had to be either in southern 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.920 border states of Mexico or north of Mexico's city. They 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.600 could then make an appointment to approach a United States 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.800 port of entry, those that are places where you can 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.440 enter across the land border and make their case for 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.760 their asylum right, do their first asylum interview. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.880 Like this is like following the law, like this is 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.160 like the process. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.880 Yeah, making a CBP one appointment is quote unquote the 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.040 right way exactly. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:18.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.640 You have a legal right to enter between ports of 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.560 entry and still make an asylum claim, which is what 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.760 we saw in their outdoor attention situation, right, But doing 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.120 it via CBP one is like the belt embraces correct 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.160 way to do it. People who had appointments at noon 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.080 Pacific on the day Trump was inaugurated, sow those appointments counseled. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.640 They can't make appointments anymore CBP one, it's gone. Those 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.160 people who have waited an average of nine months in 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.920 dangerous places have wasted their time. They now don't have 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.280 a pathway to asylum in this country. If you go 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.840 back to my episodes on the Daddi and Gap, you 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.120 will hear some of those people. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.200 Right. Those people are now stuck in Mexico without really 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.760 any legal means to enter the United States and c asylum. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.800 Trump has directed ICE to increase detention capacity. We spoke 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.880 about this in our previous podcast. Don't like the amount 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.080 of detention beds they would need to hit. The thirteen 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.440 million deportations they talked about is immense, but one of 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.640 the things they are doing is starting to house it's 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.240 people whose countries won't accept them for deportation, right, which 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.320 is a thing that has happened. The United States has 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.200 begun using military aircraft for deportations in the last two weeks. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.600 I want to stress that this isn't a capacity issue. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.360 Biden deported eight thousand people in a month in the 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.760 September to October of twenty twenty one. Trump is aiming 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:42.200 to hit five thousand. Biden did it all with contractor flights. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.280 Trump is doing a lower number and using air force flights. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.800 This is not because he can't get the contractors. It's 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.240 purely an aesthetic choice, and it's an aesthetic choice which 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.680 has roughfled enough feathers in South and Central America that 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.400 you have Honduras saying that they're going to revote the 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.400 US mission to have a military base in Hondolas as 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:08.120 a mistreat migrants. We had Columbia briefly refusing US military 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.040 flights with deportees, Mexico doing the same. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.800 Briefly entering a trade war with Columbia. Yeah, yes, which 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.120 lasted about two hours. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.440 The one hour trade war at about the same length 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.240 as the Civil War in Western Yugoslavia. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.120 Yeah, the trade war with Columbia was averted when Columbia 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.480 sent its own military plane to get these deportees. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.359 Yeah, Columbia caved immediately. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.520 Yeah, then they will continue to accept US deportees as 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.479 they have done for a long time. Right again, if 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.159 you listen to my Darien series, you'll hear of some 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.159 Colombian people being deported. We're now getting into things that 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.680 are like more. These are orders that we haven't seen 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.040 realized yet. One of them is he is. He has 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:53.120 talked about having the Attorney General remove as far as 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.880 possible federal funding from so called sanctuary jurisdictions. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:57.080 Right. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.000 These are normally places where local law enforcement were cooperates 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.640 with federal immigration enforcement. ICE makes a majority of its 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.080 detentions from people who are already detained. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.840 People who are like arrested by police, yes. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.400 Exactly for whatever. Then those police notify ICE and ICE 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.120 come get them. We've seen a lot more of door 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.840 to door ICE raids in the last two weeks, and 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.600 they've been ramping up even really really this week. But 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.280 ever since Trump was inaugurated, we've seen ICE attempting to 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.879 enter people's homes. Often they just have a warrant issued 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.600 by themselves rather than they judicial warrant. So we've seen 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.840 people refusing to let them into their homes. We've also 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:40.760 seen the removal of the quote unquote sensitive places doctrine. Yeah, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.160 sensitive places had previously been understood to be schools, churches, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.080 and hospitals. Now ICE is conducting quote unquote enforcement operations 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.000 in those places. Those are actually places like the sensitive 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.800 places doctrine have been in place for a long time. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.719 This wasn't like a Biden thing. This was This has 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.879 been a long term thing. So ICE is now and 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.080 we've seen immigration actions conducted at like a church in Atlanta, 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.760 for instance. We've seen I think they were actually Secret 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.080 Service agents who identified themselves as an ICE agent, sort 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.960 of school in Chicago because a childhood posted an anti 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.520 Trump video. And then I guess. The last thing that 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:26.159 we are seeing is this designation of organized crime groups 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.000 as foreign terrorist organizations. This is an interesting one. We 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.880 haven't really seen any action on this yet, but it's 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:33.080 one of his executive orders. 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:34.680 In day one in his. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:39.200 First administration, he designated Iran Kuld Force as a foreign 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.440 terrorist organization and then proceeded to kill their leader. Right, 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:49.080 So this FDO designation opens up the possibility of a 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.080 lot of like covert activity I'm talking like the CIA 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:56.760 and like Tier I special forces units. It also allows 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.920 him to bring about economic sanctions on any one material 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:05.760 really supporting these organized crime organizations. In practice, that would 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:10.480 encompass huge swaths of the Mexican economy, right, because there 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.960 are people in agriculture, people in business who are paying 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.199 protection or they're being extorted to pay money, right, And 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.600 so in theory, those people are now materially belefating a 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.439 tent terrorist organization and they could be sanctioned as well. 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.080 We will have to see how this plays out, I guess, 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.040 and that there's still the directive was to look into 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:32.840 and then name these groups. 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.680 Well, and it's something that heg Seth has previously been 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.000