[applause] free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now [banging] they dont want to show us the warrant imagine youre in your pajamas and youre about to wake up for the day to begin theyre taking my husband. And they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though youve lived here your entire life. Or imagine youre baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what youre supposed to do you check in. And you go there thinking, then im going to go to work, then im going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and im going to live my life. And they end all that. No ban. No wall these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way thats in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. Weve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on whats wrong. [traffic sounds] what id like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to pick you up. They knocked on the
[applause] free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! [banging] they don t want to show us the warrant! imagine you re in your pajamas and you re about to wake up for the day to begin they re taking my husband. and they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though you ve lived here your entire life. or imagine you re baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what you re supposed to do you check in. and you go there thinking, then i m going to go to work, then i m going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and i m going to live my life. and they end all that. no ban. no wall! these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way that s in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. we ve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on what s wrong. [traffic sounds] what i d like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to
thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn t making it public even though there s been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actually say they are in the dark about what s been reported as a shod doe document, that there s a secret three-page addendum that includes mccarthy s most controversial conseeings to those so-called rebels. now controversial is one of those words that could mean different things to different people in politics, but that s reporting a lot of people in d.c. or people around mccarthy think it s controversi
because the rules have been drastically rewritten, and they were rewritten in racist ways. one of the first major immigration acts was the chinese exclusion act that s what it was called. it was written to exclude chinese people from the united states. this is where we started and it just got worse from there. the way that the immigration code is written, it s compared to the tax code in terms of its complexity and incomprehensibility. so you re dealing already with a mess that was based in racist principles about keeping people out, all the way up to 9/11. 9/11 happens and everything shifts to national security. [applause] the homeland security act of 2002 takes the next critical steps. after 9/11, the ins doesn t exist anymore. it s split up into a new agency called the department of homeland security, and another agency, the department of justice,
because the rules have been drastically rewritten, and they were rewritten in racist ways. one of the first major immigration acts was the chinese exclusion act that s what it was called. it was written to exclude chinese people from the united states. this is where we started and it just got worse from there. the way that the immigration code is written, it s compared to the tax code in terms of its complexity and incomprehensibility. so you re dealing already with a mess that was based in racist principles about keeping people out, all the way up to 9/11. 9/11 happens and everything shifts to national security. [applause] the homeland security act of 2002 takes the next critical steps. after 9/11, the ins doesn t exist anymore. it s split up into a new agency called the department of homeland security, and another agency, the department of justice,