Immigration Protests Spread Across US
Amanpour11 Jun 2025

Immigration Protests Spread Across US

Protests over the Trump Administration sending in the National Guard and the Marines to assist in its immigration raids are spreading across the country. Legal and military experts warn that this could threaten American democracy. California Governor Gavin Newsom calls it a brazen abuse of power. Governor Newsom and the State Attorney General Rob Bonta are suing the president to remove the troops from their streets. Bonta says mobilizing 700 marines to support the National Guard in LA is a "unnecessary escalation." He joins Christiane from Alameda, California. Also on today's show: Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres; human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice; Tulsa OK Mayor Monroe Nichols Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Making sense of Arizona's abortion battle

Making sense of Arizona's abortion battle

Arizona has become a flash point for America’s abortion-rights battle, as the Supreme Court there votes to uphold a Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions. To discuss what happens now and how ...

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OJ Simpson has died from cancer at age 76. The former NFL star was the center of American attention in the mid-1990s, accused of brutally killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Go...

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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders

In the wake of October 7th, when Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke out in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself. But now he says Israel is violating international law, arg...

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Former US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman

Former US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman

What leverage does America still yield, whether in Israel, in Ukraine, or beyond? And is it as good as its word? There is a rising sense that the values America says it represents in the world are not...

9 Apr 202459min

DO look up!

DO look up!

Across the Americas people looked up today, as a total solar eclipse journeyed across Mexico, toward the United States and Canada. The skies above delivered a huge communal opportunity across what can...

8 Apr 202458min

Is Israel any safer after six months of war?

Is Israel any safer after six months of war?

This weekend marks six months since the most deadly attack in Israel’s history roiled the region and the world. On October 7th 2023, hundreds of Hamas fighters poured across the border from Gaza, kill...

6 Apr 202440min

Israel Minister of Economy & Industry Nir Barkat

Israel Minister of Economy & Industry Nir Barkat

A new IDF report blames "mistaken identification" for the airstrike on Monday that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. Joe Biden has given Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum - protect civilians and aid wor...

5 Apr 202458min

Scream bloody murder

Scream bloody murder

Almost one million people murdered in just one hundred days. It seems unfathomable, but that was the reality in Rwanda back in 1994 when militias and civilians from the country’s majority ethnic group...

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