Silky Shah on Mass Deportation

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This week on CounterSpin: Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids. $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers; that’s a 62% larger budget than the entire federal prison system. ICE’s “enforcement and deportation operations” get $30 billion. We’ll talk about standing up for human beings because they’re human beings with Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network. Transcript: ‘ICE Operates Within a Broader Apparatus Around Criminalization and the Deportation Machine’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of the Texas floods.