The Daily

Holman said they’re enforcing the laws, not picking & choosing what laws. Also that it’s illegal to hire undocumented workers. Yet there’s no reports that ICE is arresting & prosecuting employers illegally hiring these workers. 1) How many employers is ICE arresting? 2) How many businesses is ICE prosecuting when businesses hire undocumented workers & pay them illegal wages (i.e., $1-2 per hour)?

Maybe it was the softballs and weak/missing follow-up questions in the easy breezy interview with the “Border Czar.” Maybe it’s the lack of any trans voices in your episode on SCOTUS and trans kids. (Also weirdly the lack of Justice Sotomayor’s dissent or even mention that one was written?) So much of the Daily’s framing of late makes me cringe when I don’t throw up a little in my mouth. Who even are you guys anymore? Once upon a time this pod was my first listen and I came away feeling smarter about the world. Now I just feel like colder incurious people helm the show. I just can’t trust the Daily anymore. I don’t know why you’re trying to soft sell the right wing to your listeners but it stinks of appeasement (at best). I’m rethinking giving the NYT any of my money.

This softball interview was disappointing, and a waste of time. Homan was clearly lying, and there was little pushback or fact checking. Some of the agents at the New Jersey confrontation were wearing civilian clothes, T-shirt’s and jeans and no face masks. Other fully face-masked, and no markings on their clothes. Every instance I have seen on tv, shows unidentified goons with masks. And Homan wants us to feel sorry for them as they terrorize people.

I wish the interviewer pushed Tom Homan a little harder on his answers. He states that people can apply for asylum for lawful entry into the US, so the interviewer should have asked him about those asylum seekers who are being detained when they show up for scheduled appointments with immigration officials.