Why, America? with Leeja Miller

Could Trump send ICE to monitor a polling place near you? Are mail-in ballots done for? What is the Trump administration planning for the 2026 midterms? We'll rank the possible scenarios from least to most illegal.

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/2/11/ranking-possible-2026-midterm-scenarios-from-least-to-most-illegal 

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Measles outbreaks in detention centers. DHS buying up ecommerce warehouses to store humans in. $55 billion for backdoor contracts to create hastily erected camps. Last year over 30 people died in ICE custody, the highest number in over 2 decades. This year, it’s bound to be worse.

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/2/9/ice-detention-is-about-to-get-so-much-worse

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After Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela was captured last month, oil to Cuba was abruptly cut off. Is Cuba the next target for Trump's international wrath? A recent executive order indicates trouble ahead for Cuba and its president Miguel Diaz-Canel.

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/2/6/regime-change-in-cuba 

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Kristi Noem has agreed to issue body cams to all DHS agents in Minneapolis and across the country. But study after study shows this does nothing to increase accountability and instead will just continue to increase the bloated DHS budget and give them more tools to surveil all of us.

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Calls for abolishing ICE are growing even across the political spectrum. Here's a bit of history about US immigration laws to explain why I think the "Abolish ICE" conversation doesn't go far enough.

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🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/1/28/abolish-ice-its-complicated 

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