About this episode

The episode discusses the shortcomings of Senate Democrats' reforms and the issues surrounding ICE's budget.

In this News Brief, we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.

People in this episode

Hosts: Nima Shirazi, Adam Johnson

Topics covered

• Senate Democrats
• ICE
• body cameras
• police reform
• budget
• cosmetic reforms

Keywords

• Senate Democrats
• ICE
• body cameras
• police reform
• budget
• cosmetic reforms

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Organizations: Senate Democrats, ICE

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