Nikki McCann Ramírez, a political reporter at Rolling Stone and co-host of the podcast “American Friction,” joined to discuss the inhumane prison system in El Salvador where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of migrants — effectively disappearing them from their families and denying them any methods of recourse. Before she joined, Mike and Jared reflected on the rising power of Stephen Miller: the architect behind the Trump administration’s most vicious immigration policies.

Links:

* Read Nikki’s piece in Rolling Stone: The ‘Judicial Black Hole’ of El Salvador’s Prisons Is a Warning for Americans

* Follow Nikki on BlueSky: @nikkimcr.bsky.social

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