Immigration Showdown in LA (w/ E. Tammy Kim)
🕑 Added 2025-06-19 17:16:39 +0000 UTCJournalist Tammy Kim joins the pod to talk about the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles — and the raids that precipitated them.
Further Reading:
E Tammy Kim, "Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles," The New Yorker, June 9, 2025.
— "Inside the Activist Groups Resisting ICE," The New Yorker, Jun 13, 2025.
Comments
Delaney Rohan
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Megan Baker
Great episode! TTSG is not the same without Tammy! I would love a KYE ep about the Korean right wing with her ;-)
Axel Herrera
Appreciated the discussion of protest, its function and rationale, and how the cops are inherently an antagonist (especially in the case of a protest against the law). Many people, even those sympathetic to the cause of a given protest, really don't understand what a protest is. "If only protests were entirely out of sight, non-confrontational, unprovocative, and completely ineffectual".
Bailey Reutzel
I love this last piece about saying the utopian thing! I think this is soo soo true. Also the rest of this episode was great too, especially for someone outside LA really interested in what was happening on the ground.