sure. i think protesters are looking at the situation and saying that if we don t take a stand now, we re never going to have a government that s accountable or respects rights. this week certainly i saw a lot of protest graffiti bringing up what s happened, so that s kind of lurking in the back of people s minds. in addition to, that i think protesters are kind of moving forward the narrative that they are fighting the west s fight, that somebody s got to confront china s bad behavior, and i saw a sign up the other day that said hong kong s problem today, the world s tomorrow. paul: yeah, the muslims in the province who many of them are in interment camps. what s happening in hong kong economically? are you seeing capital flight and maybe the flight of human beings if they can get visas? you sure are. i went this last week and was meeting with immigration lawyers, and they say that they are getting calls from about 100 or 200 people every single day,
issues and exascerbate what we e seeing. part of the issue is when you allow for children, for babies to be put in prison-like conditions you re reverting to interment comments. the question i think everyone should be asking is how can the leader of the free world revert to the days of interment camps. the second thing that deeply concerns us is here we have a situation where we re allowing for i.c.e. to regulate and to i license these facilities. it s allowing the wolf to guard the sheep. if you want to have a sense of what kind of conditions we could see under this new rule, think about the fact that under the current flores protections which prioritized childrens interests, we have seen six children die, thousands of children that have been stripped from their parents arms, as
when you saw the pictures of the kids, at these detention fats if you didn t feel shame, pain, if you weren t appalled by these pictures, then something is dead or dying in your hearts. and in the heart of america. let s be also clear though, this is minimum the fourth time we ve done this as a nation. right? i mean, this is the 21st century version of us doing this. we had this when we had u.s. chattel slavery, the native american genocides, when we had japanese and germans and italians in interment camps. unfortunately, this is part of a long legacy of america and taxpayer funded.
how immigrants are treated in this nation. they think about how people of color are treated in this nation and also that we can make the through line, the tie-in from these immigrants prisons to mass incarceration, you know, because let s not forget that this is not a new issue or occurrence. 50% of the kids that are detained in america, american children, are black children. we have a history of japanese interment camps which they just turned one of those into an immigrant prison. we had american indian boarding schools where sexual violence was rampant and cultural genocide exists. it s like this is all tied into kids being detained in palestine. it s overall xenophobia dictating the way our world is working. > you put that in such a strong way. i want to ask you kind of a funny question. coming out of hip-hop, how do you feel both being a messenger
these immigrants prisons to mass incarceration, you know, because let s not forget that this is not a new issue or occurrence. 50% of the kids that are detained in america, american children, are black children. we have a history of japanese interment camps which they just turned one of those into an immigrant prison. we had american indian boarding schools where sexual violence was rampant and cultural genocide exists. it s like this is all tied into kids being detained in palestine. it s overall xenophobia dictating the way our world is working. > you put that in such a strong way. i want to ask you kind of a funny question. coming out of hip-hop, how do you feel both being a messenger for that pain as you say it s coming out of your own family experience telling people you re an immigrant and a country that is both fascinated by those stories but also often scared, scared of the black male story