Report from Honduras As Trump Increases Incendiary Rhetoric Against Asylum-Seekers, Interfaith Faith Leader, Eboo Patel, “Pleads” for Religious Tolerance in Trump Era

Trump Immigration
This Oct. 29, 2018 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows deployers from Headquarters Company, 89th Military Police Brigade, Task Force Griffin get ready to board a C-130J Super Hercules from Little Rock, Arkansas, at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in support of Operation Faithful Patriot. The Trump administration on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, announced plans to deploy 5,200 active duty troops, double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group, to the border to help stave off the caravans. The main caravan, still in southern Mexico, was continuing to melt away, from the original 7,000 to about 4,000, as a smaller group apparently hoped to join it. Airman 1st Class Zoe M. Wockenfuss / U.S. Air Force via AP
Trump Immigration
This Oct. 29, 2018 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows deployers from Headquarters Company, 89th Military Police Brigade, Task Force Griffin get ready to board a C-130J Super Hercules from Little Rock, Arkansas, at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in support of Operation Faithful Patriot. The Trump administration on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, announced plans to deploy 5,200 active duty troops, double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group, to the border to help stave off the caravans. The main caravan, still in southern Mexico, was continuing to melt away, from the original 7,000 to about 4,000, as a smaller group apparently hoped to join it. Airman 1st Class Zoe M. Wockenfuss / U.S. Air Force via AP

Report from Honduras As Trump Increases Incendiary Rhetoric Against Asylum-Seekers, Interfaith Faith Leader, Eboo Patel, “Pleads” for Religious Tolerance in Trump Era

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On today’s show: 

  • President Trump is preparing to send as many as 5,200 troops to the US-Mexico border, in response to migrants and asylum-seekers coming from Honduras through Mexico
  • We discuss the recent acts of white supremacist terrorism (the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, the shooting of Black shoppers at a Kentucky Kroger, and the pipe-bombs sent to Democrats and Trump critics) with an Interfaith leader and activist