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April 23, 2025 17 mins

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

 

References:

 

Re: Homegrown deportations to El Salvador

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-home-growns-bukele-citizens-b2733207.html

 

Re: April 19th protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/anti-trump-rallies-protests

 

Re: Replacing Hegseth

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department

 

Re: Supreme court blocking deportation of Venezuelan prisoners.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alito-supreme-court-trump-venezuelans-b2736398.html

 

Re: Abrego Garcia

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/chris-van-hollen-kilmar-abrego-garcia

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvador-government-rejects-lawmakers-request-visit-abrego/story?id=120910107

 

Re: Erlin Richards deportation

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/green-card-holder-living-in-us-since-the-90s-detained-after-international-travel-return-heres-why/3806639/

 

Re: Immigration OS and Palantir

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-palantir-expanding-immigrant-surveillance-tools-ice-tune-30-million

 

Re: Mohsen Mahdawi arrest

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/21/mohsen_mawdawi

 

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/protesters-chain-themselves-to-columbia-university-campus-gates-to-call-for-activists-release/3544835

 

Re: American Citizen  doctor asked to self-deport

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna201698

 

Re: Jose Hermosillo detention

 

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

 

Re: Indonesian father with valid visa detained

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia

 

Re: Japanese student

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/visa-reinstated-byu-student-japan-fishing-citation-speeding-tickets-rcna202216

 

Re: Two german tourists deported

https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/

 

Re: IRS and Harvard

https://www.


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