Do people want President Donald Trump's deportation crackdown? And is the MAGA agenda actually a leftist one? Just asking questions.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist at The Free Press, joins the show today to address these questions and spar with us on immigration, tariffs, and wealth inequality. She's a self-described MAGA leftist and the author most recently of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

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The White House's Ghibli-style deportation cartoon

https://t.co/PVdINmsHXs pic.twitter.com/Bw5YUCI2xL

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 27, 2025

Nayib Bukele on X

Oopsie…

Too late ???? pic.twitter.com/nDHL6deLJq

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025

The U.S. is facing a judicial coup.

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 19, 2025

Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).

The United States will pay a very low fee for them,… pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpD6

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025

Text of the Alien Enemies Act
Pew Research: "How Americans View the Situation at the U.S.-Mexico Border, Its Causes and Consequences"
U.S. government 20th century revenue history with charts
Pew Research: "For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades"
American Enterprise Institute: Prices changes in U.S. consumer goods and services, January 2000 to June 2022
Batya Ungar-Sargon on Bill Maher's show
Video of Rumeysa Ozturk being arrested
Marco Rubio's comments on the Ozturk arrest
J.D. Vance discussing deportations in August

Chapters:

00:00:00 Coming up…
00:00:30 Introducing Batya Ungar-Sargon
00:03:50 Are campus protesters being unfairly targeted for deportation?
00:10:01 The legal vs. moral case for deporting pro-Palestine students.
00:17:19 Immigration, assimilation, and the limits of free speech
00:24:00 J.D. Vance's deportation agenda vs. Trump's actual policy.
00:30:33 Are asylum seekers being unjustly deported?
00:35:23 How immigration policy affects the working class
00:41:10 Do Americans really need multiple jobs to survive?
00:44:18 Expanding state power and due process concerns
00:48:32 Trump, Nayib Bukele, and deportation to El Salvador's prisons
00:54:08 Should Trump defy judges? Constitutional limits and Supreme Court battles
01:00:19 What is the MAGA left's economic agenda?
01:06:22 Are tariffs and immigration really to blame for middle-class decline?
01:14:01 Is the American dream still achievable?
01:16:46 What question should more people be asking?

Producer: John Osterhoudt

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