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Greg Casar: “We have pursued a policy of starving innocent people in…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

Majority Report Episode: Interview with Rep. Greg Casar and Discussion on Immigration, Democratic Strategy, and Global Issues

Published April 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 37:28

Look, I'm not a fan of the Maduro regime in Venezuela in the least bit, but We have pursued a policy of starving innocent people in Venezuela, hoping that Maduro would hold elections. when he's not going to hold a free and fair election. Then when a lot of folks from Venezuela show up, we need to ask ourselves was this the right … (37:28–37:36)

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Asserts that US policy in Venezuela aims to pressure Maduro by starving the population.

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“It was the biggest rally in Arizona history and it's only gotten bigger since then.”
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“Elon Musk's term and allowed time in the Trump administration technically ends on May 30.”
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“Mr. Abrego Garcia is alive.”
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“We can put the worst authoritarians on the planet like Bukele on the back foot.”
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“We can put the Trump administration on the back foot.”
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“The Trump administration is going so far outside the law and being so abusive of people's baseline constitutional rights.”
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“Immigration issues did not poll great when Trump first was elected into office.”
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“He was putting kids in cages and deporting innocent families.”
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“Taking our limited law enforcement resources away from gun traffickers and cartels and pointing it instead at innocent workers.”
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“Being pro immigrant actually helped us take back the house during the first Trump administration.”
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“This guy wants to take away birthright citizenship.”
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“He's talking about sending Americans to prisons in El Salvador where you can't contact a lawyer.”
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“This happens all the time, every single day in every major city and town in this country.”
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“Wage theft is one of the greatest forms of theft in this entire country.”
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“The Republican Party has essentially become a daily arsonist of the immigration system.”
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“The cartels couldn't have a better friend than the Republican Party that want to keep immigration as difficult as possible.”
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“The folks that have been here for years and years and years paying taxes, doing their job, look, those folks, they're basically US Citizens.”
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“So many people when we say, well, just wait in line and come here the right way, that system doesn't even exist.”
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“We've got to address the ways that the United States owned foreign policy drives starvation and deprivation across the world.”
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“The Trump administration that is now openly advocating for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
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“The Democratic Party really reckoning with it, I agree with my prior chair, Pramila Jayapal, that that reckoning has not yet happened.”
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“The president of the United States is advocating for complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
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“The Congressional Progressive Caucus does have its own pack.”
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“In those open seats is where oftentimes you've actually seen the enormous spending and a progressive candidate, oftentimes in a progressive…”
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“I have, of course within the Congressional Progressive Caucus nearly 100 members who vote all different sorts of ways on this issue.”
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“The base is there and the base is getting bigger on this issue.”
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“Now they're running the cabinet meetings, now they're the richest man on earth is bragging about running the government on Twitter every…”
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“We don't believe that he'll necessarily follow the law and leave that.”
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“We have a real chance to fire Elon Musk if folks again raise their voices on that issue over the coming month.”
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