Americans thwart Trump's immigrant prisons plan by making it too hard

About this episode

Rachel Maddow discusses how Americans are successfully pushing back against Trump's plan for a nationwide immigrant prison system.

The Trump administration "would prefer to do things that are easy," Rachel Maddow points out. And so, by making the implementation of a nationwide immigrant prison system not at all easy, and, in fact, quite hard, Americans pushing back against Trump's plan are winning, and Trump's prisons are not opening.

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Maddow

Topics covered

• immigration
• Trump administration
• prison system
• public resistance
• policy implementation

Keywords

• Trump
• immigrant prisons
• public pushback
• policy
• administration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump administration

Places: America

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