BONUS: LA ICE Raids, Protests and Immigration Justice feat. Hugo Soto-Martinez
Added 2025-06-21 18:08:42 +0000 UTCLA City Councilmemeber Hugo Soto-Martinez joins Will to discuss ICE raids in Los Angeles, how city government and community groups are responding, the recent protests, and marine deployments to the city. They also discuss the possibilities for a more positive rhetoric and policy around immigration, and the necessity for turning the framing back on the capitalist class.
LA rapid response hotline is: 1-888624-4752
Follow Hugo & his districtโs socials for updates: @cd13losangeles & @hugopordistrito13
Comments
I don't think enough ppl talk about how voters will say they care about something like immigration but it's more a reflection of what they're hearing politicians talk about repeatedly. Almost like manufactured consent.
MKatieUltra
2025-06-27 01:45:32 +0000 UTC32:00 Wage theft is such a huge issue . I knew a guy who was in his grad school . He was from India. He had arranged some loan from India to finish his studies. Meanwhile his father would have given him few hundred dollars per month for sustenance. But his father died a year after he came here. He had to work in a 7 11 ran by another Indian to pay for his groceries. That Indian made him work for 4 months. Didn't pay him anything saying he will pay later. Later , he didn't pay nothing and fire him. When that guy complained he said you know as a F1 student you shouldn't be working outside your college campus, I can report you to ICE and then you will lose everything. That student just bit the bullet and said nothing. IDK how he managed to survive for another year in US but he graduated and now he is on H1B visa , another wage theft scam.
Alex
2025-06-25 16:48:44 +0000 UTCWoah solid mischaracterization of the force necessary to end South African apartheid and the Raj in India. It took bleeding alot of scumbags for a hunger strike and a BDS movement to be effective. Quit letting people whitewash history. Will should have pushed back. A correct telling isnt an endorsement of its means.
Meal Team Six
2025-06-25 14:41:25 +0000 UTCMan, bonus episodes, a double length episode, the regular episode and a movie mindset ep, we haven't gotten this much Chapo in one week in a long time
Eamon Short
2025-06-25 05:12:37 +0000 UTChugo had me like ๐ฅด
big mood
2025-06-24 15:35:25 +0000 UTCHis response on why sanctuary city laws exist was garbage: they allow local illegal immigrants to call the police and report crime without fear of deportation. They make communities safer not more dangerous. Whatโs happening now makes everyone less safe.
Ben Ivory
2025-06-24 14:41:46 +0000 UTCThats okay, it's a Podcast. Even if you're vision impaired you can enjoy it. Chapo is very caring for the differently-abled in their community
Eamon Short
2025-06-24 01:21:59 +0000 UTCI want to listen to this but I'm not sure i can stand it, i get blinded by rage
Matelda
2025-06-24 00:06:23 +0000 UTCAt the risk of this seeming harsh, I don't think Hugo added a single thing to this conversation that I hadn't heard expressed better with a more complete understanding from other people. Which would be fine if it weren't for the fact that he doesn't also completely fail to understand that LAPD's brutality is part and parcel to this newest rash of deportations. It's all the same movement. Him saying that LAPD's actions are damning specifically because it "makes people talk about that and not immigration" is textbook DNC propaganda to get people to do ANYTHING but talk about how their urban police unions are openly operating fascist gangs. Like come the fuck on man. I feel like this whole episode desperately needed Felix here to give one of his classic "Well... Okay--" chime ins to hold this guy's feet to the fire a bit. Edit: also I wish people would shut the fuck up about the whole "I would tell any servicemen that they don't have to obey an illegal order and the real insurrection was January 6th! You are sworn to uphold the constitution and protected by the UCMJ to do so!" The commanding officers and military institutions do not give a FUCK and will burn anyone who dares to refuse an order regardless of the "legality." You might as well be bitching about how Congress and the judicial branch are supposed to have checks and balances on Trump and have a responsibility to protect our democratic institutions-- no one in power actually believes this shit, it's always been thin justification for naked power. If you are a service member who is squeemish about what you are being made to do the best advice isn't to go along with deploying on American streets but telling yourself "oh I'll just refuse any order that gets out of hand. I'm actually here supporting the Constitution and rule of law not Trump." Assuming you aren't one of the hogs gleefully aiding ICE anyway you should be working on GETTING THE FUCK OUT, conscientiously objecting to any combat or security roles even if that means falsely converting to like Quakerism and getting stuck with shit work while you run out the clock on your service contract, and isolating yourself from as much work as possible until have that DD214 in hand and laminated. And if you get Stoplossed, develop a wahabist sense of retaliation.
Agent Grange
2025-06-23 23:59:34 +0000 UTCThe American Revolution is now ironic. Class structure is the most defined articulation of social relations in the states.
Ryan Gullage
2025-06-23 23:49:11 +0000 UTCGang members.
K H
2025-06-23 23:14:44 +0000 UTCWas disappointed by his dodges regarding the LAPD. For once, I'd like one of these city pols to come out and say what seems so obvious: our police are an independent force that do not respond to civilian control.
Rich G
2025-06-23 18:39:12 +0000 UTCThank you so so much for this, Will, especially now with the illegal attack on Iran taking attention away from it. And thank you to Hugo and all these wonderful people who support the innocent civilians being swept up in these horrible gestapo raids.
Mattc83
2025-06-23 14:17:08 +0000 UTC
