Americans thwart Trump's immigrant prisons plan by making it too hard
4/28/202643 min
The Trump administration "would prefer to do things that are easy," Rachel Maddow points out. And so, by making the implementation of a nationwide immigrant prison system not at all easy, and, in fact, quite hard, Americans pushing back against Trump's plan are winning, and Trump's prisons are not opening.
Michael Wriston, co-founder of Project Salt Box, and Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, talk with Rachel Maddow about their new project, GTFOICE.org, which is designed to help Americans mobilize against the construction of immigrant prisons in their local area.
Rachel Maddow points out that the to the extent that the security breach at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner is a crisis for the Secret Service, it is only one of many crises that have come to characterize Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security.
And Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, talks with Rachel Maddow about the upcoming May Day protests and the progress of American activism in the Trump era.
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Very happy to have you here. Um, one quick thing to tell you before we get started tonight, uh, just a little business thing. Next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow, I'm gonna be doing a thing at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and I just found out there are still some tickets left. Not a ton, but there are some. Um, it's gonna be me with Stephen J. Ross. He's a professor at USC. If you listen to my podcast, Ultra, you remember Stephen J. Ross as one of the people who had a kind of starring role in that podcast. That's thanks to his incredible book, Hitler in Los Angeles, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Well, now Steve Ross has a new book out that is even better [laughs] than that one was. It is called, uh, The Secret War Against Hate.