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News Anchor
Total chaos continues to break loose across the streets in the United States as Donald Trump's Gestapo goons ICE target migrants and citizens alike as they racially profile, as they rip apart families, as they throw people into concentration camps and mock them and say, maybe you'll get eaten by alligators. And they brag about the bounties that they put on on the heads of people, and they laugh at the idea of killing people. We have it all caught on tape as well. Have you heard the story of Kenny Lanez Ambrosio in Florida? You heard this story where he was profiled. He is a citizen, and they said, you ain't a citizen. You're an illegal, brother. He goes, what are you talking about? I'm a citizen. I'm born and raised in West Palm Beach. He was able to secretly record the border agents and the Florida Highway Patrol working with ICE and the border agents. And then you hear them, after his unlawful arrest, say, oh, we could have, like, killed him. And we're gonna get $30,000 bounty for what we've done to him.
Commentator
Ha ha ha.
News Anchor
High five. Well, we got you on tape. Here, play this clip.
Witness
Y' all scaring the dude, bro. That's not how you arrest people. I got rights to talk, bro. I do.
Law Enforcement Officer
Get up.
Witness
I was born and raised. You can't grab me like that. You can't grab me like that. That's not how you arrest. What y' all doing, bro? Hey, Kevin. No resistant. No resistant. What am I doing? Hey, hey, hey, hey. Y. Get on the ground. All right, bro. You can't be doing that. I'm from. Get on the ground, bro. What y' all doing, bro? All right, wait, hold on. No, you stay over there, bro. What y' all doing, bro? That's not how you arrest people. That's not. You can kindly take him out. That's it. That's how simple, bro. But y' all Doing it. Y' all making it so difficult. Why I make it so difficult? Not for real.
Law Enforcement Officer
Is that your taser or theirs? No, that's okay. All right.
Witness
You got hit.
Law Enforcement Officer
No, I didn't hit. Oh, okay. No, once. Once you got that proper spurt on him, he was going.
Witness
To. Don't think he does.
Law Enforcement Officer
That's. That's what we take. Starting to resist more now. We got to end up. If you keep going like this, they're going to start.
Detainee
God damn.
Law Enforcement Officer
Nice. Just remember, you can smell that, too. When it took you by the ball. Yeah.
News Anchor
Next, I want to show you from Florida to Chicago. A Chicago man handcuffed and dragged out of his car at a gas station. He begs to hold his daughter one more time. Please, my daughter. I need to see my daughter before you take me. He frantically calls out, trying to just see her, but the agents say, nope, you don't get to see her. See you later. You're disappeared. Bye bye to your family. Y. It happens. Watch it. Here, play this clip.
Law Enforcement Officer
You.
News Anchor
Next. I want to show you ice disappearing a US citizen without formally booking him for 10 hours just for filming them. The man filming told the border patrol agents, he. Yeah, it's most horrific thing. And. And the. And the agents are like, are you threatening me? Are you threatening me? Here, play this clip.
Law Enforcement Officer
I'll let you know. Take a video of you. What's the threat? Call the police, please. Yo, brother, I'm complying. I am complying. Relax. I am relaxed. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Do not.
Advocate
He was just mowing his phone.
News Anchor
Now, our friend Sandy Batcham, she writes about how there was. Or she. She recorded this. A horrific arrest today at immigration court. You know, she films all this st. Young man who didn't speak English, only Arabic, was granted a continuance by a federal judge until 2027. He left court, and then he was violently arrested by ICE agents. Just watch what happens as they take him, manhandle him, and throw him into a cell. Here, play this clip.
Witness
He speaks ar.
Law Enforcement Officer
It.
News Anchor
Now, as this other account says. You know, I think some of these immigration judges are delaying on purpose. Makes me wonder how much ICE is paying them. I'm not sure they're paying the immigration judges, but ice, the ice agents are getting a bounty. You know, whether it's 30,000 or 1500, you know, a human being, they're getting rewarded. And this is from the disastrous budget bill. They get bonuses for disappearing humans and throwing you into concentration camps in the United States. A horrific video. You saw that video, right? We showed it to you all right, next, I want to. After you watch that video, I want to show you this one. ICE arrested the only black officer at a small town Maine police department. And they said the black officer is an illegal immigrant. He has a legal work permit that doesn't expire until March 2030. Maine law allows immigrants to work as police officers, but this is who they target. This is who they target, law enforcement. Because ICE is a rogue criminal cartel. Here, play this clip.
Local News Reporter
The police chief in Old Orchard beach is speaking out and firing back at the federal government after one of the town's police officers was arrested by ice. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. I'm Marissa Bodnar. At the center of all this is John Luke Evans. He's a recently hired summer reserve police officer in Old Orchard Beach. The Department of Homeland Security says Evans is an illegal immigrant from Jamaica who overstayed his visa when he flew into Miami in September of 2023. Homeland Security says the ATF flagged Evans when he tried to buy a firearm which he was planning to use as a police officer. He was then taken into custody by ice, where he remains. Patricia Hyde, the field office director for ICE Boston, blasting the OOB Police Department writing in part, quote, the fact that a police department would hire an illegal alien and and unlawfully issue him a firearm while on duty would be comical if it weren't so tragic. We have a police department that was knowingly breaking the very law they are charged with enforcing in order to employ an illegal alien, end quote. Tonight, the Old Orchard beach police chief issuing a response saying the Department of Homeland Security signed off on Officer Evans right to work. Chief Elise Shard writes, quote, as part of the hiring process, the town reviewed multiple forms of identification, including photo identification and and submitted Evans I9 form to the Department of Homeland Security's E Verify program. The Department of Homeland Security then verified that Evans was authorized to work in the U.S. the form was submitted and approved by DHS on May 12, 2025, end quote. They also claim he is authorized to work in the United States until the year 2030. It's not clear what's next in this case. We'll bring you any new information as we get it.
News Anchor
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Community Leader
Here, play this clip two women detailing inhumane conditions. They asked for anonymity to protect their husbands and who they say were detained during routine ICE check ins and held in Dallas for days. He told me they were crowded. She said that there were around 30 people in a single cell that they couldn't bathe, that they were only given frozen food. The other woman adding, there are no beds or chairs. It's a room with a toilet seat where everyone has to turn around when someone wants to relieve themselves. Both say their spouse has no criminal record.
Clergy Member
If the stories are true, there are people being held there for multiple days and even longer than a week in conditions that are not intended to be where people are housed. And this gave us great concern.
Community Leader
Kessler Park United Methodist senior pastor Eric Folkerth is among clergy who heard from concerned families during a routine vigil outside of the ICE office this past Monday.
Clergy Member
If people are being held longer than a few hours in a center that is only meant to do intake.
Witness
Then.
Clergy Member
I think we should all have some moral questions about how the treatment of people in this situation.
Community Leader
Community group Vasinos Unidos is also demanding answers, saying in a statement today that eyewitness account shared during phone calls with family members detail no air conditioning, running water or medical oversight. Late tonight, a Spokesperson for ICE released a statement which reads in part, ice has legal authority to temporarily house illegal aliens while the are being processed after their arrest. Any allegations that these processing centers do not have beds, running water or other basic essentials are false.
News Anchor
I'll share you with you. This clip right here of what it's like to witness an ICE arrest inside a New York City immigration courthouse. Let's play it.
Commentator
In lower Manhattan, where mass immigration agents have been apprehending people outside of their routine immigration court check ins. It's been happening almost every single day for the better part of the last two months. And we came here to witness it for ourselves.
Advocate
As of mid June, ICE was detaining nearly 60,000 people. That's almost 45% above the capacity that was funded by Congress. And according to recent reporting from the New York outlet, the city inside this building, 26 Federal Plaza, apprehensions and hours spent in detention skyrocketed earlier this summer. An average of 89 people were detained inside 26 Federal Plaza each night in June. More in May and June alone than the first four months of the year combined. In just five hours inside 26 Federal Plaza, I saw armed and masked federal agents apprehending five different migrants who had appeared for their immigration hearings. This isn't a normal or long standing practice. It is a new directive by the Trump administration playing out on several floors of this building.
Commentator
There are multiple floors inside this building, 26 Federal Plaza, where there are immigration courts and that's where hearings are happening. And then those mass federal agents are detaining migrants who are coming out of their regularly scheduled immigration check and some who are getting court dates to come back in the future. And yet they're being detained. And then they're being held on the 10th floor of this building in a makeshift detention center where advocates and lawyers are saying people are being held longer than they're supposed to. And in inhumane conditions, access to that.
Advocate
10Th floor isn't permitted. But in two videos obtained by the organization the New York Immigration Coalition, you.
Commentator
Can apparently see one of the holding.
Advocate
Rooms on that floor where around two dozen men are being held. Some are sitting on benches, some with those aluminum Emergency blankets. DHS tells us that, quote, 26 Federal Plaza is not a detention center. It's a federal building with an ICE law enforcement office inside of it. And that, quote, any claim there's overcrowding or subprime conditions is categorically false. But a surge of immigration courthouse arrests and detentions across the country are why several organizations are suing the Administration alleging that these practices are violating the due process rights of the people in its custody. Lawyers and advocates say this is all part of Stephen Miller's grand plan of arresting 3,000 undocumented people a day. But like what we've all been seeing playing out on the streets of Los Angeles, these arrests affect far more than the worst of the worst criminals the administration had said they were going to go after in this mass deportation campaign. Also in May and June, almost 70% of those arrested at 26 Federal Plaza hadn't been convicted of any crime. And like la, the collateral effect of these raids touches people not detained, including the many families that I saw roaming the hallways, little children at their parents hearings, walking around with these agents towering over them.
News Anchor
Here's the latest on Reza Zavar. Her brother was walking the dog then. ICE took him. Miriam tells REZA ZAVAR STORY Here, watch this.
Detainee
It was the morning of June 28, was a Saturday morning. As usual, he. He was at my mom's place. He took Duke, his dog, for his morning walk. And after a while, there was a knock on the door. My mom answered the door. She saw two men in uniform with Duke at the door. She said the officers asked her, is this your dog? That's the only thing they said. And the first thing that came to my mom's mind was that Marissa was hit by a car and his dad were in a really bad condition. They're bringing the dog home. She said, this is my son's dog. Where's my son? And he repeated the question, is this your dog? Can you take him? My mom took the lesion, asked them, where's my son? But they did not answer. He calls us every day. Talk to him. My mom and I talk to him on a daily basis. Yes. The Baltimore facility was absolutely horrible. My uncle drove there to give him some clothes because he was cold. So when he called, he said, can you bring some clothes for me? I'm cold. They did not allow us to deliver the the close to him. They had 20 of them in a cell. There was one bathroom for them. They slept on the floor. They gave them, I guess, some bedding, maybe a blanket to sleep on the floor. He said it was horrible. He couldn't take a shower, so it was bad. The conditions at Port Isabel is not good either. He says that the lights are always on. It's always bright. It's very noisy. He can't sleep at night. The bathrooms are not private. They're open. They don't refill the soap dispensers. At the last he said last time it took three days for them to refill the soap dispensers. And that was after he said that he was going to complain and talk to the inspectors. He said something very disturbing today that he said there are feces everywhere. They don't provide enough cleaning tools. So people, they have inmates clean the plates. Detainees, they have to use the same brush for the toilet to clean the showers. Every time he complains to the officers, they say, okay, no where we're bringing soap. And the detainees are responsible for giving food. And there was no soap.
News Anchor
Here's another story right here about inside an ICE detention facility. Let's play it.
Advocate
How are you doing?
Law Enforcement Officer
Just here trying to get through every other day.
Detainee
Are they feeding you guys?
Law Enforcement Officer
A barely holding facility. Man, everybody was hunting and I've already seen like a couple older men pass away here. So it's not the best condition. It's a lot of systematic racism in here, I'll say that. People taking advantage of people that don't speak English. There's some. Some older man had a stroke and he hit his head on a. On a toilet. And the toilets are like metal frames and just started gushing blood from his head. I don't necessarily know he passed away, but we just never saw him again. He got separated from everything. He processed that well.
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The MeidasTouch Podcast Summary
Episode: All Hell Breaks Loose in US as Trump’s Plan Accelerates
Release Date: July 30, 2025
Host: MeidasTouch Network (Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas)
In this intense episode, the Meiselas brothers delve deep into the escalating chaos in the United States under former President Donald Trump's administration. The discussion primarily centers around the aggressive actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the treatment of migrants and citizens, and the broader implications for American democracy. Combining incisive commentary with real-world footage and testimonials, the brothers provide a comprehensive analysis of the current socio-political climate.
Targeting Migrants and Citizens: The episode opens with alarming reports of ICE's intensified crackdown on both migrants and U.S. citizens. The News Anchor highlights the rampant racial profiling and the inhumane treatment inflicted upon individuals, including families being torn apart and threats of violence.
Case Study: Kenny Lanez Ambrosio: A gripping case of Kenny Lanez Ambrosio from Florida is discussed, where Lanez, a U.S. citizen, was wrongfully profiled and arrested by border agents. The episode features a clip where Lanez confronts the officers, asserting his citizenship.
Conditions in ICE Facilities: The discussion shifts to the deplorable conditions within ICE detention centers. Testimonies from detainees and community leaders paint a grim picture of overcrowded cells, lack of basic necessities, and systemic racism.
Community and Clergy Reactions: Community leaders and clergy members express deep concern over the treatment of detainees. They highlight the moral and ethical dilemmas posed by the current detention practices, emphasizing the need for accountability.
Unlawful Arrests and Detentions: The podcast sheds light on instances where ICE agents have unlawfully detained U.S. citizens without proper booking procedures. Video evidence shows agents threatening detainees with violence and offering bounties for arrests.
Impact on Legal Proceedings: There is a significant increase in the number of detainees, surpassing the capacity funded by Congress. The episode discusses how this surge has led to prolonged detentions and the violation of due process rights, with many detainees having no criminal records.
Reza Zavar’s Ordeal: A heart-wrenching account of Reza Zavar’s brother being abruptly detained while walking his dog is shared. The testimony highlights the lack of communication, inadequate living conditions, and emotional trauma experienced by detainees.
Deaths and Health Negligence: The podcast reports on the deaths of detainees due to poor sanitary conditions and lack of medical care. An advocate recounts witnessing an older man pass away after suffering a stroke, exacerbated by the harsh living environment.
ICE’s Defense: In response to the allegations, ICE asserts that their facilities are compliant with legal standards and that any claims of overcrowding or subpar conditions are unfounded. They maintain that they have the authority to temporarily house individuals during processing.
Local Government Pushback: Local authorities, such as the Old Orchard Beach Police Department, defend their hiring practices and compliance with Homeland Security directives, countering ICE’s accusations of knowingly employing illegal immigrants.
Public Outcry and Activism: The episode emphasizes the growing public outrage against ICE’s methods, leading to increased activism and demands for policy reforms. Community groups and advocacy organizations are actively suing the administration to halt what they deem as human rights violations.
Impact on Families and Communities: Families are left devastated as loved ones are detained, often without clear communication or legal recourse. The emotional and psychological toll on detainees and their families is a recurring theme throughout the episode.
The Meiselas brothers conclude the episode by urging listeners to stay informed and engaged with the ongoing developments. They emphasize the importance of supporting democratic values and holding authorities accountable for their actions.
This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast provides a harrowing glimpse into the current state of immigration enforcement in the U.S., highlighting systemic issues and personal tragedies. Through a combination of firsthand accounts, expert analysis, and unwavering support for democracy, the Meiselas brothers underscore the urgent need for reform and societal vigilance.
For more detailed discussions and updates, subscribe to The MeidasTouch Podcast available every Tuesday and Friday morning, with live video sessions every Monday and Thursday night on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel.