Trump's latest desperate attempt to regain control of the narrative over immigration is crashing and burning. He's getting increasingly pathetic. Here's how pathetic it is. He wants to uh rebrand ICE to the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's nice, because then [00:00:20] it sounds nicer and then you have to say that it's nice, I guess. He used to be good at this, the distractions, the rebranding, the insults, that's like six years in the past. And pathetically, the reason he did it is because one person who's not even a person, Alyssa, [00:00:39] Alyssa, I love you, you're a bot, Alyssa. You don't exist, Alyssa. You're on a data center in Estonia, Alyssa. Anyway, Alyssa told him to do it, and what do know, the most powerful man in the world decided that that's what he's going to do. But is it nice? No, you already [00:00:57] know that it's not nice. Donald Trump's administration is currently closing down a watchdog office that investigates allegations of abuse inside of immigration detention centers. The closure follows more than 780 instances of ICE officers and detention staff using physical force or [00:01:15] chemical agents against detainees since Trump returned to the White House. That is a 37 % surge in just one year. More than 30 people died in ICE detention. That's the deadliest year for ICE detainees in more than two decades. And by the way, I know a little bit something [00:01:31] about the origins of ICE. It hasn't existed for significantly longer than two decades. That's basically the most that we've ever had. And so it's not nice. In effect, it's also not nice, by the way, when your reaction to the abuse is not to stop the abuse, it's to [00:01:49] shut down the watchdog that's finding and publicizing the abuse. And by the way, some people, maybe racists or whatever, don't care if the immigrants are being detained. They only care about heritage Americans or whatever. Well, they're getting screwed over too, by the way. A new study by [00:02:06] the University of Colorado Boulder published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that in an average high enforcement, immigration enforcement area, the number of US born male workers fell by 1200, coming out to approximately one job loss for every six likely undocumented workers who left the labor force. The study also found that for everyone [00:02:25] ICE arrest led to six likely undocumented workers stopping working. And so if you put that together and assume that the uh chaos, the economic chaos produced by this enforcement is having a deleterious economic effect on the area that then is rippling out to native born workers. It is likely that [00:02:44] something like every ICE arrest is probably losing a US born worker their job. And we've been saying this for a very long time. These undocumented migrants participate. They produce, they pay in, an economy is buttressed, it is buoyed by them being there. When you take them [00:03:00] out, it doesn't just hurt those people, that would be enough for me. It does massive harm to those who are citizens as well, and that is what we are seeing. In fact, it is also directly depressing wages. Depending on the scale of deportations, high-scaled workers [00:03:16] can see their wages fall up to 2.8 % relative to a scenario. without an immigration crackdown. And that's for the people who don't altogether lose their jobs. And in the meantime, how is Donald Trump, how did he get into this position? By telling you they're taking your jobs. That [00:03:34] is what Trump was saying in 2024. And that is the cheap repetition we're hearing from JD Vance out on the campaign trail right now. They tell you the jobs are going to immigrants. No, when you get rid of the immigrants, you get rid of jobs for native born Americans [00:03:49] as well. Whether that makes sense to you or not, I'm sorry, welcome to reality. What do you think Sharon? Yeah, so for people if you don't have a heart or moral compass, what you're really doing is giving them just the economics of this thing. And I don't know why they won't [00:04:05] pay attention. I don't know why some people still don't get it. I also don't know why Trump and the devils surrounding him keep doubling down on this. The bar is so low for him of what's expected that he could just kind of not talk about it anymore. immigration, and people [00:04:22] would probably give him a freebie and just move on, unlike what they would do to somebody else. So the whole thing makes no sense. Our country is far worse off because this guy came down that escalator years ago telling lies, and then told war lies saying he was gonna [00:04:40] get rid of the worst of the worst. And then people with weed-whackers and fathers of Marines started being disappeared. what happened if they weren't shot in the back and nearly paralyzed like several hearings have been held on Capitol Hill. It's just too much. Yeah, by the way, [00:04:59] you know what I was just thinking? One of the big differences between the first Trump term and the second Trump term is, and this isn't like a perfect comparison, but for the first couple of years of the first term, our rage, our suspicion, our protests, A lot of it was [00:05:16] driven by things that happened during the campaign, like what we found out about the sexual harassment allegations, this weird stuff we found out about Russia, like all of that stuff. And some of the fallout from it, like the firing of Comey and all of that. It's not exclusively, a lot of people were mad obviously about the tax cuts. then once we get to, like 2019 or 2020, I should [00:05:35] say, you have him utterly failing purposefully on COVID. But for a couple years, you mostly have people enraged by the things that happened when he was running and all of that. It's not like that right now. And we are having to deal with terrible own goals, basically every day [00:05:52] on immigration, on foreign policy, on the economy, the monuments, the destruction of the federal bureaucracy. There was some of that, but it is so much more driven by the continued recurring damage that he's doing. And as you say, a lot of his just own goals. He doesn't need to [00:06:10] be doing this. He could be coasting. He could just be trying to I don't know, take over the Fed and briefly in the short term juice the economy before the entire thing falls apart after he's died or something. He's not content to do that. He's not content to ever stop damaging America. You know what TYT has always been about? Taking on the corrupt greedy establishment. [00:06:29] For us, it's the corporate media. We've been fighting that fight for over 20 years. 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