Democracy Now! 2026-04-21 Tuesday

Amy Goodman· Host0:01

[upbeat music] From San Francisco, this is Democracy Now!

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Deaths in ICE custody continue to skyrocket past previous records as the agency has been massively expanding the immigration detention system. A total of forty-eight people have died in ICE custody so far during the current Trump administration.

Amy Goodman· Host0:36

As ICE rapidly expands its immigration jail system, deaths in ICE custody are surging. At least seventeen people have died this year, on average a person every week. Forty-eight have died since President Trump returned to office. We'll talk to Detention Watch Network. Then, caught in the crackdown as arrests at anti-ICE protests piled up, prosecutions crumbled. A ProPublica Frontline investigation.

Speaker 21:11

Immigration officials conducted several raids and arrested dozens of people.

Speaker 31:16

An investigation into the Trump administration's months-long crackdown. Are you encountering a lot of resistance?

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Most I've ever seen.

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The pushback.

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They are creating the emergency and the crisis that we then need to deal with.

Speaker 31:28

I'm asking who's detaining me. Live