What the Raids Cost Texans

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Washington promised the biggest deportation force the country has ever seen; this episode follows the money from that promise to a half-empty tent camp at Fort Bliss, to framing crews shrinking in the Rio Grande Valley, and to the taxpayer bill, and it says plainly where the record still has gaps.

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Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 2:35 The Mechanism 7:11 The Despin 13:28 The Steelman Corner 15:42 The Numbers

Short cuts

part · 165s

The biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.

part · 185s

$45 billion to ICE to expand detention capacity.

part · 137s

You paid once as a Texan.

hook · 176s

This resulted in millions of dollars of waste.

hook · 111s

The promise: cheaper houses. The receipt... fewer framers.

hook · 114s

Let's be real, we voted for it.

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