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In this week’s Elefante na Sala, João Maria Jonet, Ana Cavalieri and Orlando Samões discuss the escalation of ICE violence in the United States. Listen on podcast
In Minneapolis the situation remains tense, with an increase in street violence and discontent following the death of Alex Pratti. Is ICE becoming a paramilitary force? For Orlando Samões, from the Catholic University, the abuse of power by someone wearing a uniform seems to be expected and even “good” from a moral point of view, but he emphasizes that ICE’s actions are “very much in doubt about illegality”.
This impartiality in the actions and investigations of ICE leaders was one of the centers of this debate, which also deepened the constitutional consequences of the approach chosen by Trump’s executive and the reactions of Democratic opponents, including the threat of a partial shutdown to halt the agency’s funding. Ana Cavalieri highlighted the robustness of the American judicial system, noting that “there is a robust constitutional system that has given people whose rights have been violated solutions to sue the authorities and to assert their rights”. The program was shown on SIC Notícias on January 31st.
After the Decisio América podcast, Elefante na Sala arrives, with analysis and all the news about American politics, with Ana Cavalieri and João Maria Jonet.
