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Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. I've got a couple announcements and a rant before we get to our guest. On the announcement side. We got something exciting coming. June 6th in Washington, D.C. it's Pride weekend. It's World Pride, actually, in D.C. and alongside my fellow gays, Sarah Longwell and John Lovett, we are going to be hosting a live show, fundraiser and protest in support of freeing Andre. Andre, as all of you know, he's the makeup artist that our government has disappeared to El Salvador. Robert Garcia was yesterday grilling, he's a congressman from California, was grilling Kristi Noem about whether we have proof of life for Andre, whether she who's gone to visit and done pinup pictures in front of the prisoners, was able to just guarantee that at least we know that these people that we've disappeared with no due process are still living. She refused to do that. In a about as grotesque a way as imaginable, though it's about what you would expect from our Secretary of Homeland Security. So we want to make sure we're bringing attention to this, making sure that it is not lost, that it's not forgotten. And we want to do it at a, at a moment where there are going to be a lot of people in D.C. so if you are a gay, if you're a D.C. resident, if you're a gay ally and want to come party with us, but also be righteous and passionate in our support for those we've wrongfully sent to El Salvador. We'd love to see you June 6th, Washington, D.C. tickets are going to be on sale maybe tomorrow, maybe Saturday. So check out the Bulwark site, check out crooked sites, and on Monday, I'll make sure to give you guys the details once it is fully live. Also, for some new listeners who want more of my backstory on being a Republican, I did Hassan Minaj's show. So we're gonna include a link in the show. Notes to that today. I told you, I've been a pod slut lately. I've been out there in these streets doing podcasts and Hassan wanted to, you know, kind of give me a little shit about my past. And I, I can take it. I, I, I enjoy that. And, you know, sometimes I get feedback from people who are new who don't, you know, the Bullock OGs have heard this a million times. But for, for newer folks who are interested in my trajectory, go check out that. I appreciate Hasan having me on. Also, we're getting into all foreign policy today. So if you just want some other political hot takes. Me and Sarah and JVL were on one last night on tnl so you can check out the next level as well. One last thing before we get to our guests on the immigration front. I've been mean to mention this. I want to see which day I tweeted this. It was Monday and I just, it's been, I haven't been able to get to it on the podcast. I believe I've mentioned on the show the story of Ximena Arias Cristobal. That's a young woman in Georgia, in Dalton, Georgia who had just graduated high school, was brought to this country from Mexico when she was 4. She was pulled over for initially the what the initial allegation, what the police told us was that she did not have her turn signal on when she made a right turn and then did not have her license on her. They realize she is not documented. They shackled her and sent her to a detention center three hours away in Georgia as they process her for deportation to a country that she has not lived in since she was a very small child. If she came in a different year, she came a little after the time to qualify for daca. You might be familiar with that, folks. We tried to pass the DREAM act several times which would have given legal status to people who are brought to this country as children and who, you know, check certain metrics such as not doing crimes, going to school, learning English. Ximena had done all of that. And we are, you know, I guess like holding her in a cell for some reason, I don't know what fear of, fear of flight. I don't understand besides cruelty, why we feel like we need to do that and then are going to send her back to our home country. The whole story as just sick as it is that this is what is happening with the country, that there aren't other ways that we can't deal with this. Obviously, you know, criminals should be jailed, should be sent back to their country. People that came here illegally as grown ups, you know, I'm gonna have probably more liberal views on that than some others, but I understand that they're gonna have to be rules and some of those folks are gonna end up being deported and that's just the nature of, of our system. But who's for this besides Gollum, Stephen Miller and Tom Homan and a few other people replying to me on X who are trying to get off on other people's pain. The idea that we're going to send this young woman who's done nothing wrong, back to a country she hasn't lived in because she didn't have her turn signal on is fucking outrageous and it is enraging. But if you're ready to be more enraged, she actually did have her turn signal on. Here's a press release that came out on Monday from the Dalton Police Department. After review of the dash cam video of the traffic stop, it was determined that Ms. Arias Cristobal's vehicle was similar to the offending vehicle, but was not the vehicle that made the improper turn. City of Dalton administrator was notified by the police chief that a dismissal for the improper turn citation was in process after review of the dashcam. Great news. I guess she's not going to get a traffic ticket any longer. Here's the problem. She still remains in ICE detention, facing deportation. I. You just don't. Can't hate these people enough. Honestly. It's just like this young woman has done nothing wrong, did nothing wrong, did not come to this country out of her own volition illegally. She was brought here, she went to school. She's following traffic laws, apparently, and we are sending her out. But because we want the country to be more like China, I guess we want to be more like some authoritarian state. And we no longer want to be a place that welcomes folks from around the world who are looking for opportunity, as we've been for the entire history of the country. That is, unless you're one of the 59 white Afrikaners who we are going to bring in, one of whom you should check out. JBL's triad from yesterday has a lot of very nasty things to say about Jews. So I guess that's where we're at in this country right now when it comes to immigration. It's tough to, you know, with all the crazy stuff in the news to get to all these individual cases. But this one was so outrageous, I wanted to make sure not to miss it and to highlight it. So up next, let's get Our foreign policy PhD we're welcoming back a favorite. He's the editor of the Insider, a Russia focused media outlet and he's a contributing editor at New Lines magazine. He was an investigative reporter for CNN and the author of Inside the Army of Terror. That's Michael Weiss. What's up, man?