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In the first hour Paul Wright of the Human Rights Defense Center and Prison Legal News joins me to discuss prisoner rights. We talk about the current state of America’s 2.5 million incarcerated individuals and the tremendous hardships they face. Paul talks about the legacy of Prison Legal News and how it represents one of the only truly independent media outlets talking about the prison system.

Paul Kersey is the author of the blog Stuff Black People Don't Like, and has published many books on race, multiculturalism, and society, including The Truth About Selma, SBPDL Year One, Escape From Detroit, and Whitey on the Moon: Race and the Death of NASA.
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In April, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero-tolerance” policy for illegal entry and all aliens caught entering the country illegally would be held for prosecution instead of "catch and release" that allows the aliens to stay in the US while awaiting a hearing that they often ignore.

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LOS ANGELES — Children as young as three years old are being forced to hold their own in deportation proceedings in federal court, judges have reported, further confirming how the cruelties of the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime have been largely unhindered by the local and global controversy it’s provoked.

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein about a bill she introduced, which would prohibit the federal government from separating immigrant children from their families during arrests at ports of entry or within 100 miles of the border of the United States.
As he asked his question, Tapper brought up a photo taken in 2014 of children sleeping on the floor of a cage at an immigrant detention center.

Soros suggested that Russia is funding Matteo Salvini and the right-wing League party whose popularity has seen a dramatic rise because they have promised to to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants to neighboring liberal European countries. Soros' solution is for the EU to pay off Italy instead of resettling the migrants. The League responded to Soros by saying that the wind has changed for him and for all of those who have profited from the deaths of hundreds of people.

German police were overwhelmed when confronted by an angry mob of migrants who demanded the release of a man from Togo who had been apprehended in a refugee reception center and detained for deportation. The police released the detainee as the aggressive mob grew from 50 to 150 participants. When authorities yield to pressure once, they become susceptible in the future. [...]

HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — Thousands of African asylum seekers on Wednesday protested outside the Rwandan Embassy in Israel, calling on the African country not to cooperate with an Israeli plan to deport them.
Israel has given thousands of migrants in the country until April 1 to accept an offer to leave for an unnamed African destination — widely known to be Rwanda, based on testimonies of people who have already left — in exchange for $3,500 and a plane ticket. Those who don’t leave face indefinite incarceration.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu accused US Jewish billionaire George Soros of being behind the campaign to stop Israel from deporting 38,000 illegal alien "infiltrators" who migrated from Africa. For those who agree to leave by the deadline, Israel offers $3,500, a plane ticket, and help with obtaining travel documents, if they refuse, Israel says it will imprison them indefinitely. Israeli Holocaust survivors wrote an open letter to Netanyahu last month pleading with him to reconsider.

The US allows an estimated 1-million people to immigrate to the US each year, but a new poll by Harvard-Harris shows that 81% of Americans want the number reduced. According to the poll, 65% of voters would support a DACA deal that secures the Southern border, ends Chain Migration, and eliminates the Visa Lottery. [Question: If most voters want immigration to be substantially reduced, why do the politicians they elect push for more immigration? The answer is obvious.