The MAGA Fight Over Immigration - Student Visas, ICE Arrests, Deportations (with Elaad Eliahu, TimCast) | The Sagnik Show

0:00 INTRO
0:57 Trump's deportation promise
4:20 Leftist reporters at immigration hearings
6:50 CONTROVERSY: Should ICE Agents Wear Masks?
13:22 Legal Immigration, H-1B Visas, Vivek Ramaswamy
20:24 600,000 Chinese Students in US universities? 
25:30 Nativism in the New Right
28:46 Assimilation for new immigrants 
34:20 Zohram Mamdani's cultural Marxism 
37:10 How MAGA united under Trump
39:20 Social Conservatism, LGBTQ in MAGA, Abortion
43:33 Tech Right, Elon Musk, MAGA grift
47:00 How Trump abandoned the Pro-Life movement
49:01 No more gatekeepers in news?
53:15 Money doesn't matter in politics anymore?
54:34 Why Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of NYC
59:00 Growing anti-Israel sentiment within the Right

Elaad Eliahu is the White House Correspondent for TIMCAST IRL. We sat down to discuss mass deportations, MAGA civil war on immigration, and the growing nativism among the New Right. 

#immigration #visa #politics #maga #trump

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