'BradCast' 7/15/2019 (Guest: KPFK News Director Ernesto Arce)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 New Orleans may have dodged a bullet, at least for now, as Hurricane Barry made landfall over the weekend without overwhelming the city's new pump system -- but the storm continues to deliver even more rain and flooding as it moves north and east across several states. Immigrant advocacy groups organized\\xa0 #Lights4Liberty demonstration across the nation on Friday to protest ongoing revelations of horrific and inhumane conditions at many of Donald Trump's overcrowded migrant detention centers. Major cities from Los Angeles to New York braced for promised round-ups of "millions" of immigrants and their families, as threatened by President Trump over the weekend. So far the mass round-ups have not materialized. Ernesto Arce, News Director of our Pacifica Radio Network flagship station, KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, details the current status of the ICE raids, how local officials and the immigrant community have been preparing for the promised raids, and how the threat has served to rally the community and bring them together to resist Trump's deportation forces. Donald Trump's reprehensible, xenophobic, racist Twitter attacks over the weekend on four Democratic freshman Congresswomen of color have united the Democratic caucus to the side of Trump's targets-of-the-moment:\\xa0 Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Ilhan Omar (MN).\\xa0 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\\xa0 has pushed back on Trump by introducing a resolution condemning his statements. Shamefully, few Republicans in Congress have spoken out against Trump's racist attacks on members of Congress. Callers weigh in on all of the above..."