'BradCast' 4/17/2019 (Guest: Sarah Pierce of Migration Policy Inst.)

Published: April 18, 2019, 1:09 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast': As the nation awaits Trump Attorney General William Barr's redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday morning, Barr has announced new immigration policies to add to Trump's success in creating chaos and a humanitarian crisis on our southern border. Immigration attorney SARAH PIERCE, Policy Analyst for the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, discusses Barr's newly announced policy changes that would bar asylum seekers -- who have already demonstrated a "credible fear" of return to their home countries \\u2013 from seeking a bond for release until their asylum case can be heard, which would keep such individuals in detention for months and years despite the existing lack of space in ICE detention facilities. Also today: Trump has vetoed a bipartisan War Powers Resolution passed by the US House and Senate to end to U.S. military aid supporting Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians and created a humanitarian crisis. Federal prosecutors are reportedly seeking up to 10 months in prison for actress Felicity Huffman in the college admissions scandal, while the actions taken by Trump in the last week alone are a veritable litany of impeachable, prosecutable offenses. Neither the corporate media nor Congressional Democrats appear capable of handling them with the gravity they deserve, nor do they seem prepared to respond to the "creeping authoritarianism" that has turned outrageous, impeachable actions by the\\xa0 sitting President into little more than another "wacky Trump story of the day" in his chaotic and criminal Presidency. Even outspoken progressive freshman House Democrats, while supporting calls for impeachment in general, appear to be pulling punches in deference to fearful party leadership. As we argue today, there is more than enough -- even without Mueller's findings -- to, as columnist Dan Savage has long argued, "ITMFA"..."