Immigration Lawyer Details Horrific Conditions at ICE Detention Centers

移民律师详细描述了ICE拘留中心的恶劣状况

What A Day

2025-07-25

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The Trump Administration is quickly ramping up its efforts to arrest and deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, now that extra money is starting to roll in thanks to President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law. It set aside more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement, including $45 billion to build and expand detention centers and $29 billion to help hire new immigration agents. The most notorious symbol of the administration's immigration crackdown is the pop up detention center in the Florida Everglades the administration calls ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ But more facilities are popping up all over the country, as are allegations of horrific conditions. Katie Blankenship is an attorney and co-founder of Sanctuary of the South, which provides legal services and civil rights representation throughout the region. She’s currently representing clients in ICE detention centers, and joins us to talk about what she's hearing from them. And in headlines: Trump and embattled Fed Chair Jerome Powell publicly bicker during a tour of the central bank headquarter’s ongoing renovations, French President Emmanuel Macron announced his country would recognize the state of Palestine, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Jeffrey Epstein’s former fixer Ghislaine Maxwell. Show Notes: Call Congress – 202-224-3121Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/3kk4nyz8What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcastFollow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday
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  • It's Friday, July 25th.

  • I'm Todd Zwielek and this is What A Day,

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  • On today's show,

  • the latest on just how hard the White House worked to find and then to hide the inconvenient truth about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's long friendship,

  • more on Donald Trump's effort to lower interest rates by intimidating the Fed chair and accusing him of construction fraud,

  • and new evidence and new alarm about the extent of starvation in Gaza.

  • But let's start with the Trump administration's massive and quickly growing campaign of migrant detention and deportation.

  • It won't surprise you to learn that it's getting massive and fast.

  • Or at least it shouldn't surprise you.

  • When you hear some of these numbers, Trump's tax and spending law, the so-called Big Beautiful Bill,

  • the one that gave tax breaks to the rich and will cut off more than 10 million people from their health coverage,

  • it put Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, on steroids.

  • The law spends roughly $170 billion on immigration enforcement,

  • $45 billion of that for expanded detention,