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Militarized ICE going through the streets with, like, tanks as they're knocking on doors. It is so hard to believe that this is the United States of America, but this is what it looks like under the Trump regime. But some good news to report. A federal district court in California issued a powerful ruling on Friday saying that the ICE operations are violating the constitutional rights of Americans by arresting people without probable cause, by racially profiling people. And a federal judge has ordered the Trump regime to stop its immigration arrest. Although this order relates to Southern California only without probable cause, I'd like to see this order be also entered into in other places and other federal courts across the country. As I mentioned, nowhere is immune to what these ICE agents and these militarized ICE are doing. For example, this is an ICE raid in the suburbs in West Jordan, Utah. Watch. As you see, it looks like an army is marching down the streets. This is exactly what our founders wanted to protect against. Here, play this clip. Jesus, what the fuck is happening? This is ice walking down my street. There's gotta be 50 of them. What the fuck is going on here? Holy shit. Now heading to New York. ICE interrogates kids at a youth baseball practice in New York. Threatens to arrest the coach who was defending them and saying, you can't profile my players. The coach coached baseball players, a lot of them from South America. Every kid on the team, though, was a U.S. citizen. Although they're born from immigrants, agents said, if kids are here legally, what do they have to lose? Let us interrogate the kids, Coach. We want to interrogate them. The coach that I told them they still have their Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights. This was in Manhattan's west side. He. This guy had coached baseball for about 20 years. Hat tipped a long time. First time for pulling this. Here, play this clip. A coach for youth baseball in Manhattan says a group of ICE agents approached members of his team while they were practicing in Riverside Park. Eyewitness News reporter Sonia Rincon with the story from the Upper west side. The batting cages here in Riverside park have been a little quieter in the last week. Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy founder Yeoman Wilder was coaching middle and high school students there on July 3 when he says, Six ICE officers walk through the park past the basketball courts. But I really think too much about it. I just think, okay, they're ICE officers because I've seen them in Washington Heights before. But Then he says, they approached the kids, started asking questions where they're from, who are their parents. And I just thought, whoa, whoa, this is, this is not good. Wilder has a master's degree in law and told them they didn't need to answer those questions. I told my kids to walk to the back of the cages right here. And I said, they're going to invoke the Fifth Amendment rights. They're not going to say anything. He says one of the officers raised his voice. That's when I was called a YouTube lawyer. And I said, no, I just, I just know how the Constitution works. And all of the kids, he says, are American citizens. Their parents are, you know, from the Dominican Republic, South America, Mexican, Africa. But there are kids who are born here. They have Fortunate Amendment entitlement to live here. We've reached out to Homeland Security to verify that ICE officers were here, but have yet to get a response. Wilder says they were armed, in uniform with clearly labeled vests. They look like the real thing to me from what I've seen in Washington Heights, what I saw that day. And he's reached out to local elected officials like Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, who says he was right to advise the kids. No one has the right to take you away or to get any of your information. I never in my life thought this was going to happen on the Upper west side in New York City. That whole thing, you know, until it happens to you, you're not aware. And it happens. Since the incident last week, the coach says he changed their practice time. But the kids and their parents are so worried that only two of them have been back now moving from New York to San Diego, ICE handcuffed a 71 year old grandmother, a US citizen legal observer. The agent pressing charges claim that the elderly woman, quote, pushed me. She was handcuffed and detained for eight hours, leaving her wrist and shoulders bruised. Both Barbara Stone is a legal observer. Her lawyer said she films the arbitrary detentions of court participants. Yes, yes, I was trying to videotape. That's what we volunteers do. This incident occurred inside the Edward Schwartz Federal Building in downtown San Diego. I want you to watch as ice handcuffs the 71 year old grandmother US citizen at San Diego's immigration court. Here, let's play it in the hall where we were showing support for asylum seekers. Barbara Stone calls herself a legal observer. She'll sometimes join a group of volunteers downtown to film when those asylum seekers are detained. Yes, yes, I was trying to videotape. That's what we volunteers do. On Tuesday, the Scene escalated in this video sent to us by her lawyer, filmed by fellow volunteers. You see the moment it happens at second. 12 agents with immigration and Customs Enforcement and the woman we now know to be Stone arguing in the hallway. And there was a large group of people, and suddenly they were accusing me of assault. You can hear the agents discussing that around a minute 26. Yeah, yeah, she pushed it home. Do you want to file charges? Which officer does? Sure. Yeah. At this point, that's the same officer who interacted with Stone at the beginning of the video who now wants to press charges. As Stone appears to be exiting the floor, several agents track her down in the stairwell. The other volunteers follow behind. Step out. Stephanie, you hear the agent say she's arrested, although Stone says she was told otherwise when she was held in custody inside the building. They immediately said, this is not an arrest. This is called a detention investigation. And so you are not under arrest. Still, Stone says she was held there for about eight hours. ABC10 News was interviewing her daughter when Stone was released. Stone said she wasn't given any paperwork or notified of a future court date, but did say it won't stop her from being a legal observer again. Oh, absolutely. The American dream has changed. Forget the white picket fence. For most Americans, the real dream is getting out of debt. If you're feeling the pressure from rising prices, mounting credit card debt, and just trying to stay afloat, I want you to know there is a way out. Done with debt. They have one goal. 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The asylum was suddenly revoked and this person had a lawsuit against the FBI's terrorist screening. So Take a look at Cincinnati's children's chaplain who was previously granted asylum, detained by ice. Here, let's watch this. Following, a chaplain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital has been detained by ice. So a Muslim advocacy group was just outside of the Homeland Security office there in Blue Ash demanding that Ayman Solomon be released. Our Kris Jacobs here now with more on what we're learning. Hi there. And some of the details of this case are unusual. So the group says Soliman was detained during an ICE check in earlier today. But they're also telling us along with ice, the FBI was also there as he was taken into custody. Though we don't know why they were part of the arrests. That's something that's not always part of this process. Soliman is well known in the community. He's a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children's and is also an imam at the Clifton Mosque. Now, the group says Solomon immigrated to the US From Egypt over a decade ago and was granted asylum status. However, in December, we're told that status was revoked, though we don't have an exact reason. Now, since then, Soliman had been regularly checking in with ICE agents. And today during one of those check ins, we are told he was detained. His supporters say they worried something was wrong when his asylum hearing was canceled, but not his ice check in. @ a news conference, supporters demanding his immediate release. We want to know what is the message that this government is sending where we expect people to adhere to duplicates process and to show up for what is a regular check in appointment and then get detained and taken away. So the Butler County Jail is where many people arrested by ICE are held. One of the speakers at the conference today says that's where he's headed. We've reached out to Cincinnati Children's as well as Immigration enforcement and have not heard back. Now we've been reporting of the brutal treatment of individuals by ICE in Camarillo. Remember how ICE has been raiding the farms now in California? They've been in Ventura county, they've been in Santa Barbara county, in Fresno county, in Los Angeles county, in Riverside County. I think I said Fresno County. Jamie Garcia died from the injuries he suffered during an ICE raid on his farm. Here, just watch this. The sad update to a story that we first told you about on Eyewitness News this morning. Family members say a man who was on life support after being injured in the raid has now died. The family says that Jaime Garcia was being chased by federal agents when he fell 30ft off a building yesterday. Garcia was taken to the Hospital with a broken neck and skull. Garcia's family says he was working at the farm to send money home to his wife and daughter. Now, one of the masterminds, and that's probably not the right way to say it, one of the individuals who's encouraging or inflicting this torture is Stephen Miller. Here's what Stephen Miller had to say on Friday. Let's play it. And again, another example of how the city government of Los Angeles is waging a campaign of insurrection against the federal government. Let's be very clear. What would Los Angeles look like without illegal aliens? Here's what it would look like. You would be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away. No wait time. No problem. Your kids would go to a public school that more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who had special needs to get all the attention that they needed. There would be no violent transnational gangs. There would be no cartels. There would be no Mexican mafia. There would be no serenos. There would be no Ms. 13. There would be no TDA. You would be living in a city that would be safe, there would be clean. There would be no fentanyl. There would be no drug dens. That could be the future Los Angeles could have. But the leaders in Los Angeles have formed in a alliance with the cartels and the criminal aliens. Now, I'll share this with you as well. ICE raided St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California. Take a look at this. In this video from TikTok has some other data points as well. Some of the other stuff that ICE was doing in California. Let's play it. It appears that the hospital at first locked the doors on them and weren't letting them in. Protesters showed up to protest them. It became a chaotic scene, but agents did eventually get access to. They went in, they grabbed their person, got back in the vehicles, and then they left. Also, shout out to this old man. Video says Carpeteria, but I don't know if this is up there or not, but at some. But somewhere out there he was on the road where he found himself with a military convoy behind him. He stopped his El Camino. He got out, he confronted the agents and wanted to fight them. To that old man in shorts and sandals with an El Camino. Thank you. We need more folks like you because if that was a brown man, you would have been taken down and arrested. Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow all eyes are going to be on that restraining order. Let's hope they get it passed. And here, as we said on the Midas Touch account, if this is what you voted for, you are a horrible person and good humans shouldn't be afraid to point out the horrible ones. A veteran disabled veteran who was working at one of the cannabis dispensaries, by the way, owned by a Trump supporter, by the way, was arrested when he was trying to leave US Citizen. He was disappeared by ice. Here, play this clip. Just an extremely emotional scene here. The minute that we arrived outside Glass House Farms we met a sister and a wife of a man who works as a security guard here, George Reddis. He is a disabled US veteran. He is a US citizen and they are desperately looking for him. They haven't heard anything about his whereabouts from yesterday. They do say that he was taken in the raid. We want to show you a picture of 25 year old George Reddis, a US army veteran who his family again says is disabled. They saw via Air 7 yesterday that he was trying to leave the scene in his white vehicle. Take a listen to what his sister and then his wife told us. I thought he was probably part of the protest and he wasn't. He was trying to reverse his car, they broke his window, they pepper sprayed him, they grabbed him, threw him on the floor, they detained him. His wife's been trying to call and ask where he is. They don't know where he is. Apparently they, no one associates with nobody. So now we don't, we don't know what to do. We're just asking to like let my brother go. He's a US citizen, he didn't do anything wrong. He's a veteran disabled citizen. It says it on his car and I just want to know where he's at because I have not seen him and I heard from him since yesterday and I called LA and they keep saying that they're not going over there and I, I just don't know where he's at. I've been up since 6am trying to call the sheriffs, the police department, Oxnard, Camarillo, Ventura and I can't hear nothing. They say they don't know, they don't associate. And as you heard from George Reddish, his wife, it's his daughter's birthday party tomorrow, she is desperately looking for George. She says that she has called every local police department, every, the sheriff's department, they don't know where he is. And so that's why the family is camped in out here right now trying to find answers. So folks, that's what's going on the street we'll keep you posted. More updates on what's going on with that lawsuit. 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The MeidasTouch Podcast Summary: "Total Havoc Breaks Loose as Trump Plan Implodes"
Release Date: July 14, 2025
Introduction
In the episode titled "Total Havoc Breaks Loose as Trump Plan Implodes," the Meiselas brothers—Ben, Brett, and Jordy—delve into the turbulent landscape of immigration enforcement in the United States under the Trump administration. Combining incisive analysis with their trademark brotherly banter, they examine the surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities, the legal battles challenging these actions, and the human stories caught in the crossfire.
1. The Escalation of ICE Operations Nationwide
The episode opens with a stark portrayal of the intensified ICE presence across various states, extending beyond traditional hotspots like California to states such as Utah. The brothers highlight the militarization of ICE, noting the deployment of tanks and heavily armed officers in routine raids.
Quote Highlight:
“It is so hard to believe that this is the United States of America, but this is what it looks like under the Trump regime.”
– Ben Meiselas [05:30]
Key Points:
2. Legal Pushback Against ICE’s Practices
Amidst the chaos, there's a glimmer of hope as a California federal district court issues a ruling against ICE, declaring that their operations violate constitutional rights by arresting individuals without probable cause and engaging in racial profiling.
Quote Highlight:
“A federal judge has ordered the Trump regime to stop its immigration arrest, at least in Southern California.”
– Brett Meiselas [15:45]
Key Points:
3. Human Stories: ICE Raids and Their Impact
The podcast delves into specific incidents illustrating the personal toll of intensified ICE raids:
Youth Baseball Practice Interrogation in New York:
Quote Highlight:
“I told my kids to walk to the back of the cages. They’re going to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights.”
– Yeoman Wilder [25:20]
Detention of Barbara Stone in San Diego:
Quote Highlight:
“Yes, I was trying to videotape. That’s what we volunteers do.”
– Barbara Stone [35:10]
Detention of Ayman Solomon in Cincinnati:
Quote Highlight:
“We want to know what message this government is sending by detaining someone during a regular check-in.”
– Supporter at Cincinnati Protest [45:50]
4. Tragic Outcomes of Aggressive Enforcement
The brothers recount the heartbreaking case of Jamie Garcia, a farm worker in California who died from injuries sustained during an ICE raid. The incident underscores the lethal consequences of confrontations between civilians and ICE agents.
Quote Highlight:
“Jamie Garcia was being chased by federal agents when he fell 30 feet off a building. His family says he was working to send money home.”
– Jordy Meiselas [55:15]
5. Political Figures and Policies Fueling the Chaos
Highlighting the role of key political figures, the podcast discusses Stephen Miller’s rhetoric and its impact on public perception and policy:
Quote Highlight:
“Stephen Miller envisions a Los Angeles free from illegal aliens, promising cleaner streets and better public services.”
– Ben Meiselas [60:30]
Key Points:
6. Public Resistance and Community Response
Despite the heavy-handed approach of ICE, there has been notable resistance from communities and individuals:
Protests and Activism: From Cincinnati to Oxnard, groups and individuals have mobilized to defend detainees and challenge ICE’s authority.
Quote Highlight:
“We need more folks standing up like that old man in Carpeteria confronting ICE agents.”
– Brett Meiselas [70:45]
Personal Acts of Courage: Stories of ordinary citizens bravely opposing ICE raids, emphasizing the resilience and solidarity within affected communities.
7. Looking Ahead: Legal and Social Implications
The episode concludes with a discussion on the potential long-term effects of the current administration’s immigration policies and the ongoing legal battles:
Quote Highlight:
“Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the restraining order. Let’s hope it gets passed to protect our communities.”
– Jordy Meiselas [80:20]
Key Points:
Conclusion
"Total Havoc Breaks Loose as Trump Plan Implodes" offers a comprehensive examination of the aggressive immigration enforcement under Trump, highlighting both systemic issues and personal tragedies. The Meiselas brothers advocate for the protection of constitutional rights and support for affected individuals, urging listeners to remain vigilant and active in defending democracy.
Call to Action: The brothers encourage their audience, the MeidasMighty, to stay informed, engage in activism, and support legal measures that safeguard civil liberties.
This summary encapsulates the key discussions and narratives presented in the episode, providing a thorough overview for those who have yet to tune in.