♪ [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! president trump: i thihink it's under control. i tell you what -- >> how, a thousand americans are dying a a day? president trump: they are dying. it's true. it is what it is. amy: as the u.s. coronavirus death toll tops 166,000, a stunning new expose in "vanityy fair" reforms a white house task force led by jarred

kushner, abandononed a coronavirus testing sitite in t spring because they thought the pandemicic would onlnly hit democratic s states. we'll speak to reporter katherine eban and look why immigration lawyers are arrested outsiside the home demanding the jail of asylum seekers during the pandemic. >> we're here to demand gavin newsom live up to the values he says he holds and free them all. amy: we'll speak with one of the arrested attorneys who he himself is undocumented and with an asylum seeker who led a hunger strike while he was held in a jail. we look at the border patrols raidid on the camps set up by t group no more camps at the border of arizona. the same type of special operations team recently deployed against protesters on the streets of portland. all that and more coming up. ♪

amy: welcome to d democracy now coring democracynow.org, the quarantine reporort, i'm amy goodman. the u.s. deatath toll f from covid-1919 has topped 15656,000 far r the highest in the w worl on monday, presidedent trump lashed out at his top white house coronavirus advisor dr. deborah birx after she warned the virus is, quote, extraordinarily widespread. trump took to twitter calling birx pathetic. the trump administration may rush to preserve a vaccine to boost the president's chance of winning in november. "the new york times" reveals the department of health and human services produced a slide show for the white house in april about developing a vaccine. the first slide read, quote, deadline, enable broad access to the pubublic by october 2020. the date was in bold letters, one regular participant in white house meetings on v vacc development has been p presiden

trump's son-in-law jerod kukushner helping to run his re-election campaign. we'll have more on that t story after headlines. the world's health organization is warning there may never be a silver bullet to defeat the coronavirus. >> there is no silver bullet at the moment. and there might neverer be. out comeses mpmping it to t basicics of public hehealt and control. testing, isolating, and treating patients and tracing and ququarantinining their contacts. amy: the global death toll approaches 700,000 though the true number is b believed to ar far higher. the bbc is reporting leaked records from the iranian government shows almost 42,000 iranians have died from the virus, nearly triple the number reported by the health ministry. in latin america the total number of cases has now topped five million with more than 200,000 deaths. brazil recorded almost 95,000

coronanavirus deaths. the world's second highest total. mexico's third highest with 48,000 deaths. on monday the brazilian president's chief of staff tested positive for the virus making him the sevenenth brazilian minister to have contracted t the infection. president trump threatened to suee nevada over the expansion of mail-in voting. democratic governor steve sisolak signed a bill monday ensuring all registered voters receive a mail-in ballot. trump tweeted, nevada's clubhouse governor made it impossible for republicans to win the state. trump made a similar claim in march saying if democrats had expanded voter access in the coronavirus relief bill, quote, you'd never have a republican elected in this country again. trump also renewed his attack on the u.s. postal service saying it would not be able to handle the increase in mail. the usps responded in a statement that they have ample capacity to handle the higher

volume and in otother election news, five s states arare h hol primaries today, michigan, missouri, kakansas, arizonona a washington. a warning to our aududience, th nenext three stories c contain graphic footage e of police violence. a leaked police body cam video reveals geor floydegged minneaposs police office not to shoot him just minus before an offic killed him by kneengng on sseck for over eight nunutes. two other offers also held him down. in the video, flo is seen siining in his car saying, please don't shoot me, i just lost my mom.m. >> step out and face away. >> please don't shoot me please man. >> i'm not going to shoot you. face away. >>lease dot shoot me, man >> i'mot shooting you. >> i just lost my mom, man.n. >> step out d d face away. >>tep out d face -

amy: athther pt of the vid owows gege f flo handcufdd ying i'mot resisistant, then a attorney for the floyd family said monday the police officers approached him with guns drawn simply because he was a black man. as this video shows, he never posed any threat, krump said. newlwly released body foote shows los anleles poce shot a protester inhehe heawith a less scalled lethal rod whe the man had his as in the air may 306789 the protter, c.j. monta who was a foer marin protestg the killing of georgfloyd. montanwas hospitalized for four days and is recovering. his attorney condemned the police department's use of force saying, quote, he's isolated in that intersection, his arms are up in the air, there's no good argument that he was hit accidentally, unquotote. the los angeles police department has describibed the incicident as a, quotete, unintentional head s strike.

in conway, arkansasas, prosecutors hahave justt cleare several officers of crimiminal charges s over theirir v violen arrest in february of a man who died who was repeatedly punched in the back and statesered on the groundnd and pininned under offificer's knee while h he protested ii can't breathe. the o officer repeplied if yoyo tatalk, you canan breathe, , ch out. newly released police body cam footage shows officers pressing 39-year-old lionel morris into the floor of a supermarket for 6 1/2 minutes, ignoring his repeated cries for medical help. morris became unresponsive and was later pronounced dead on the way to the hospital. police were called when morris allegedly attempted to shoplift. the officers ha been placaced on paid administstrative leave pendingg an inteternal investigatation. the cenensus bureau has announc it will wrap up collection efforts for the 2020 census a month earlier than planned even though the pandemic has

disrupted field operations, all door knock and phone inquiries will now end september 30. kristen clarke for civil rights condemned the decision by saying, quote, by prematurely ending critical door knocking efforts we run the risk of missing millions in black and immigrant communities. this decision may deprive these communities of fair representation and fair allocation of funds f for the next 10 years, she said.. aa 33-year-o-old mexicican died the weekend d days after r he f from the u.s.-mexico border wall inn arizozo. customs said he was brought to a m medical center but eventual succumbed to his injuries. in the mexican state of guerrero, a journalist pablo morals was shot dead along with his bodyguards and worked for pm noticias and recently reported on a crime involving

local criminal games. according to reporters, he's's the fourth journalilist killed memexico thihis year. in el salvador, a judge sentenced three police officers to 20 years each for the 2019 killing of 29-year-old camilla diaz cordo va. they say the officers brutally assaulted her and threw her out of a moving vehicle. cordova was deported from the united states before she was killed and marks the first homicide killing after transgender person in el l salvador. in egyptpt, human rits a condememning the senentence han overer young womomen over theie tiktokok vidideos w which viola familyly morals and intensisifid public attention o on the case' 17-yeaear-old menna abdel aziz whwho in may posted d a social videdeo which she appppeared covered in bruisises and reveae she was gang raped. the teenager wasas then arreste

alongside the accused men and accused of f inciting debaucher and inciting family values. in other news in egypt, 200 figures around the world including writers and rights groups and cultural organizations have signed on to a letter calling for the release of the political sanna saef. the 20-year-old film editor was arrested last nont andnd to see sanaa seif's mother go to democracynow.org. in spain the royal family refusing to disclose the whereaboututs of former king ju carlos after it was announced he's going into exile in the wake of a corruption scandal that r rocked the mononarchy in recent months. in june the spanish supreme court launched d a probee in ju carlos' involvement in a study rail contact after a swiss newspaper repeated he received $100 million from the late

saudi arabia king abdullah. he was abdicated as king in 2004 after another investigation drew scrutiny of the family's finance it is. he is the former king of elipe who took his inheritance in march when thehe scandal arepresented. the poland ministry will permanently station 1,000 u.s. troops in poland bringing the contingent there to 5500. the announcement came days after the pentagon announced to withdraw 1 1000 troopsps in bab in germany. back in the united states, the manhattan district attorney may be investigating president trump over bank and insurance fraud according to a new filing from his office. been rus va nce has looking into hush money to women trump had affairs with in his campaign but monday's filing which tells his accounting firm to hand over eight years of tax returns suggest the investigation is much more expansive as it

cites, quote, extensive corruption at the trump administration. and trump dismissed the news saying it was part o of a democratic witch-hununt against him. the fedederal judge whose son w killed and husbandnd critically injured after a racist self-d-described anti-feminist lawyer opened fire e on their house in north brunswick, new jersey last month has spoken out in a video urging more privacy protections for judges. judge esther salas is the first latina federal judge in new jersey. >> the monster knew where i lived and make church we attended and hadad a completete dossierr on n me and my family. at the moment there is nothing we can did to stop it and that is unacceptable. my s son's death cannot be in vain. amy: the food and drug admininistration has expanded t

list of dangerous hand sanitizers to over a hundred different products. the f.d.a. warns some hand sanitizers contain methanol which can be toxic if applied and did deadly if ingested. it i includes sanitizers thahat contain less than 60% alcohol, the amount needed to be effective. the irish politician john hume died at age 83 and won the nobel peace prize in 1998 for his role in crafting the good friday agreement that ended decade of conflict in northern ireland. at the time the nobel committee praised him for being, quote, the clearest and most consistent of northern ireland's political leaders in his work foror a peaceful solution. those are some o of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman in new york joined by my co-host juan gonzalez at hihis home i in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy a and welcome to all our listeners and vieiewers aroundnd the couountry and theh world. amy: as the national coronavirus death toll surpasses 156,000, the highehes

by farar i in the world, the u. making up more than a quarter of global deaths, on monday president trump attacked the white house coronavirus advisor dr. deborah birx for saying the u.s. is in a new phase as the virus spreads out of control. deborah: what we're seeing today is different from march and april and is extraordinarily widespread and into the rural as equal urban areas and to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune e or protected from this virus. amy: presisident trump responde monday tweeting, so crazy nancy pelosi said horrible things about dr. deborah birx going after her because she was too positive on the job we're doing combating the shean virus and in order to cancel nancy deborah took the bait to hit us. dr. fauci commended birx said the spread is insidious and he

told jonathan swan the coronavirus is under control despite this. > giving them false security. president trump: it's ununder control. >> a thousand americans are dying a day. president trump: it't's true. it is what it is. but it doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. it's under control as much as you can control it. this is a horrible plague that beset us. amy: in fact the coronavirus spread all over the united states more than five months into the crisis there continued to be critical testing shortages and delays. how did we get here? we turn now to a stunning new expose in vanityy fair that includes how the trump administration ended up with no national testing plan despite a momonth's long effort spearhead by trump's son-in-law jerod kushner. in an explosive piece headlines how jerod kushner's secret testing plan went puff into thin air and reporter katherine eban writes jerod kushner was pursuing a national testing plan with the help after

handful of wealthy business owners when the white house decided it was not necessary because covid-19 had, quote, hit blue states hardest. eban writes, quote, this summer has illustrated in devastating detail the human and economic cost of not launching a system of national testing which most every other indndustrialized nation has done. ebeban writes. she joins us now from massachusetts, author of "bottle of lies," the inside story of the generic drug boom and dangerous doses, a true story of cops, counterfeiters and thee contamination of america's drug supply. katherine, welcome back to "now or never." katherine: thank you. amy: can you lay out what you learned why we're at this point in this country where people around the country are waiting hours and hours and hours for their test, and then they wait days, , if not weeks, for the results, rendering them virtually ineffective. go back to what this white hohouse was doing in the earlyl

months.. katherine: s starting in march was vevery clear to every publi health expert we needed a nationally organizized diaiagno testing plan, one that could search supplies, allocate tetes kits, allocate precious laboratory capacity and jerod kushshner inside the white hous gathered a group of f his associates,s, including his college roommate, somome morgan stanley y bankers sort of brain trust and began reaching out to billionaires who did not have public health experience per se but then they brought in a testing diagnostic experts from the indusustry working night and day in secret on the encrypted what's yap plplatform and happenered out a national testiting plan that esessentially resesembles what

every otother advanced nation h established. and ththe participants in n the plan -- d we obtained the plan, i should sayay. the participants expected that at any moment in eararly april, the plan would be announced. it vanished into thin air as one participant described it. amy: w why? and whwhat was the reaeason? kaththerine: so the plan at tht moment hit shiftining sentiment at t the whitete house. ththe view at that point in ear april in part, led by predictions by dr. deborah birx is that the virus was on its way out, it was subsiding. there was a view that a national testing plan would be an enormous effort with a lot of political liability, but there was an additional calculation, which was expressed from one member of kushner's teamam to someone tha e interviewed, which is that

it's mostly affecting blue states. and if f a political argument w needed, they could simply blame those democratic governors for the spread. and so the national testing plan was abandoned. and d on april 27,7, trump step to the podium in the r rose garden and annouounced the administration plan which for no resemblance handed out by thee group, this was a man that essentially kicked the problem to the states. the states would indivividually be responsible to getting test kits, getting lab capacity, and that really has led to what we have seen over this terrible summer. miles long lines of cars in texas and arizona, in heat waiting in line to get tests and people waiting seven-plus days to get results and essentntially renders the test

useless. that's where we are. we cannot monitor where this virus is at this point because we d don't h have enough testin you cannot fight what we don't see. that is s the predicamament we' currentltly in. juan: katherine eban, what about ththe reaction of the memedical experts in the federa government, first, of all, too ththe kushner team itself and t the fact the president didn't even implementnt the plalan of team? katherinine: you know, public health e experts have known all along a national testing plan was absololutely y required. butt any understandiding is tha this jerod kushner team did not realally work with the publicc health agencies. as far as i can tell f from my repoporting, his plan, which we obtained, never trickledown to the agencies andnd the decisionmakers withihin h.h.s.s

and other entities.s. now,w, of course, the white hou has come outut and denied this and denied d our report.. but, you know, as one participant said to us, we were working in a bubble. you know, we were i in a bubble they were in a bubble. and the bubbles never overlapped. juan: w what about thisis whole issusue of kicicking the testin responsibility down n to the states and y you quote a docto saying the diagnostic teststing industry is, a quote, loososely constructed web and covid-19 is in essssence a stage 5 hurriric how is this loosely c connected web gogoing to be able to deal with the current crisis that we have? katherine: that's a great question. the answer is it's not. you know, as someoeone describe it to me, it's like the early 20th century and the power grids, right?

in every city y and location ha its own power grid and you couldn't surgege power from one grid t to another, right? so quest diagngnostics lab capacity onlnly belonongs to qu and l labcorps's' capacity only longs to labcocorps. and quest diagnostics came out in july and announceced the median time to get results was seven days because they were so ovoverrun. now, the testing plan that was worked out by kushner's team would have solved that problem because one of the things it called for was allowing any lab with capacity to test any sample, right? and you would have had an organized system of sending samples to labs that had capacity. you know, it's just like when you go to a supermarket or in the old days before coronavirus when we all shock shopped at kravitz supermarket and there

were people who guided shoppers to check out lines that had space. that is essentially what was required here. this one person we interviewed said this is not rocket science. this is just like creating ups for an industry. you have to connect these dots. and that was never done. amy: president trump wants to open the economy and he is demanding that kids be able to go to school all over the country. of course, his son, his school is not open and he doesn't talk about that very much. but in order to do those things, in order to have a rational plan where everyone doesn't come down with covid, you need the tesest. soso it goes against his own interests. katherine: well, that's right. it's stunningly y short-sided. so the rockefeller foundation, i described their effort in the piece. ththey saw this absolute absenc

of a p plan and they stepped forward with a very detailed plan they're now trying t to implement w which would surge u tetesting to 30 million test as week which is what they say we need i in order to reopen safel right? so kid were gogoing to school, workers returning g back, how d you do any of that if you can't quickly identify who is infected? so without a national plan, the only thing that it left for you to do is to shut down the economy again, which is a really blunt instrument. so, you know, president trump says he wants t to reopen e economy. hehe wantso reopopchoooolsut lilirally ththonly way to do thataccordin tththe rockefeller fodadation and other expess is to have this widespread system of testing which we cururrently lack. juan: katherine, your piece starts o out with a deliverery

one mimillion chinese madade diagnostic t test in march, and th a strange invoice for 3.5 million tests s for $52 millili and there's just a note that sasays w.h. could you talk a about that? katherine: yeah. so this is actually where my reporting for t this piece bega whwhich is i obtained ththis ve strange invoice. 's from a company, cognant technology solution which is misspells its name on the invoice and they're a subsidiary of group 4 42 which an artificiaial intelligence company that h has close ties t the ruliling family ofof t the arab emirarates. the i invoice is for 52 million -- excuse me, $552 million wort of diagnostitic tests. but what was so strange about this invoice is it lists a

client name whichch was just tw initials, w w.h. and that was the white house. and as i further reported it, the tests got delivered to o th embassy of the united arab emirates, so this was first one million tests delivered, then 2.5 million more delivered. and when they were tested in a governmement lab, it turned out ththey were contamininated and useless. soso as the f.d.a. said to me, they were shipped from the middle east, the reagents have to be kekept cold. and so, you know, this was, as i i understand it now, an early effofort overseen n by jerod kushner's task force to ramp up diagnostic testing. i think you'll remember, i think it was march 6, donald trump goes to the c.d.c.c. and sasays rather infamously now, t

tests are beautiful, anyone who wants a test gets a test. that was completely untrue. and so b behind the scenes,s, h son-in-l-law and his team are trying to ramp up diagnostic tests and accecess to tests, bu the tests that they seem to hahave procured didn't work. amy: can you t talk about, for example, phoenix and what happened, what the mayor of phoenix, mayor gallego said, and also talk about another country like sosouth korea, an exexame of what can work. katherine: yeah. this is really two different universes. so in arizona, , the mayor of mayoror gallego, goes to phoeninix and says we need assistanance to raramp up diagnostic testing. we need money. we need organization. and they say to her, , because this point nowow, the decision

has been made to shiftft the responsibility to the states, and they say well, you're not really qualified to get ourr assistance because your case count is low. anand b behind ththe scecenes, who work for her pointed out in emails i i obtained, the reason our case counts are low is because we don't have angs to -- access to tesests. the tests we need would show our r case countnts aren't low. that was ignored. fafast forward to june, you kn arizona was the first statate - ththe last state to closese its economy and the first state to reopen w with really no provisionsns for a phased reopening. their case counts start skyrocketiting in june. the mayor described to me she lives near one of these drive-through testing sites and liteterally are seeing her neighbors w waiting in miles lo lines of cars in heat over 100 degrees, people who can't

breathe, are struggling to breathe,e, are waiting for test and when they finally are able o get tests, gallego's own staff had to wait two weeks to get back test results. what that means is those tests are essentially useless, right? it's not just getting a a test, it's how quickly you get back the results and what you do with those r results. amy: i want to turn to jerod kushner hihimself speaking on f and frieiend two days after presidident trump's ns conferencece in late april. he was asked about testing. jerod: everyone is talking about testing and i have to say the work that's been d done ove ththe l last 60 days on testing been absolutely extraordinary. we're at about 5.8 million tests now performed, by far the most in the world, and we'll see ththe number continue to accelerate and we're s starting anotheher round d of calls with governors s to ask themm what additional supplies they need, what's their two-month plan, what t their six-m-month plan a right nonow we've fulfilled all the orders ththe governors have and haveve access c capacity y

their s states. yestererday goverernor desantnt saying he has more testing capacity than demamand for t th test we'ree doing quite well. i alysys say we sese the leadin indidicators a o often the medi ceasase th lagging i indicorors but the leadingng indicorors ar testing g is extraordidinarily posisitive andnd i'm v very con we have all the testing we need to start opening the country. y: so that's s jerod kushner speaking in april. of course florida went into freefall afterer that when it came to the numbers of deaths and infections. so then contrast this, i mean, you have harvard university saying there should be 20 million test as day being donon in this s country to even n beg to deaeal withth this community spread throughout the country with sououth korea. kathererine: yeah. the whole idea of preparedness is you prepare before you have a problem. then if you don't n need what y prepared for, ththat's wonderfu if things get t bad, you are preparared. t that's what south korea did

before they had rising counts. they set up a whole system of not t just drive-through testin sites but walk-through testing sites and sorort of phone booth testing site with plexiglas babarriers and that hahas two effects. it preserves p.p.e., protective equipment, because if staff are prototected they don't have e t wear as much of itit. preserves their energy because it's very hahard to be wearing that while you're testing. so people can get testeted then they get the resultsts back withinin 24 hours. so thahat is timely information you can act on. further,r, when they get a a positiveve test, their contntac are traced and they're put in supportive isolation which means food is b brought t to th ththey're able to quararantine support. so if you conontrast that with the miles long lines of cars, you know,w, waititing for t tes

it's really stunnnning. anand just to say one more thin about that clip you played from jerod kushner, you knonow, i'm struck by what he saiaid about texas, h how, you k know, there way more s supply than there is demand. i mean, they were really y gambmbling here. they were really banking on this i idea that you would not hahave spread from blue states red states, which is an incrcribly dumb gamble when you consider that this was a virus that crossed oceans. juan: katherinin i wananted ask you about the raciaial and class breakdodown, even in this tetesting crisis. we've not only people in the white house being tested on a a daily basis, we now h have thee spectacle, and to me i i consid it o outrageous, tha major leagueue basall l is testing its playerss constanantly to make s the teamsms can stay on the fie

and yet so many americans don't haveve accesess, not only y to right away bubut mostst especia as you're mentioning to, the results. katherine: you know, you're absolutely right. i mean, they're demanding president ---- preresident trum demandining reopenings of schoo d d businesssses, and yet there this incredible discscrepancy. so you know, in my reportiting the rockefeller's plalan, i sor of sat in on some of their deliberations. this is a a huge questition abot school reopenings. you have private schchools thah can afford to stand up a system of testing. they have nurses. and you have impoverished public school systems where ththey can't even afford a scho nurse. so how are they going to manage this? you know, they're not getting help with testing. they don't have access to anything. so there's this remarkable

discrepancy which is at the eart of it, yes. amy: finally, katherine, you're the author of "drug lies." talk about shortages, reregulations, quality control, and just overarall in the midst of this s pandemic. katherine: yeah. so the book k exposes widesprea fraud in overseas manufacturing plants thahat make the bulk of ouour low-cost generics. you know, many, many people viewed with concerern that this was a national security c crisi in the making because we arere ependent on chinese active ingrededients, finish doses fro india. once the pandedemic hit, we literally were flying blind. the f.d.a. can no longer go overseas to inspect those plants. the f.d.a. also was basically

eroding its own safeguards by accepting pharmaceutical products from plants they had never inspected. suddenly india is saying, you know, we're going to ban the export of 26 essential drurug rightsts. so we'e're in shortage.. we need all kind of specialized pharmaceceuticals in ordrder to ventilate patients. so we've seen, you know, increasedd shortrtages. so what i wrotote about in that book is really coronavirus has accelerated alall these issues. amy: i want to thank so you much for being with us. katherine eban, investigative journalist and author and her new report for vanityy fair, how jerod kushner's secret test iting plan went puff into thin air and also author of "bottle of lies" the inside story of the drug boom and dangerous doses, a true story of cops, counterfeiters and the

contamination of america's drug supply. when we come back, we talk to one of the i immigration attorneys arrested outside of the california a governor's mansion, calling on him to stop transferring people into immigrant jails where they can spread or catch covid. and we'll speak to a hunger striker inside an icece jail. andd what about that raid of a humanitarian camp on the arizona-mexicoco border? we'll l go there. stay with us. ♪

y: "born confused" this is democracy now! we look at how the government continues to hold tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants in detention cenenters and jail where social distancining is nearly impossible, ignoring the advice of medical experts and even the former head of ice. nearly one in five people detained by ice in may and june were likely infected with covid-19 according to a new analysis by the vera institute. that's about 15 times higher than the number of cases ice has reported. at the same time, ice has continued to deport people including those who are infected, making it a global superspreader. how are people in ice jails getting the virus? in some cases they contract it from people isis transferred there. this was the focus of a protest at california governor gavin

newsom's mansion last week when people chained himself to their gate and demanded the immediate release of people in state prisons and jails. this is lisa knox. >> he could end this spread of covid t that's happening throughout our prisons and jails and detention centers and throughout the world. but no, inside he's complicit in all of this. amy: 14 undocumented activist and immigration attorneys werer arrested at newsoso's mansionon fofor more on what they're calling for. 're joinened by luluis is co-director of pangea legal services in san francisco and is also undococumented. welcome. luis angel, it's great to have youu witith us. explain why you got arrested and the risks you yourself took as a undocumented p person to make your point. luis: yeses, thank you, amy.

you mentioned the situation. and across the state and across the country and really the situation is really alarming. and here in california in particular. and you'll be hearing from jose majia, a hunger striker and there's been a hunger strike wave that's encompassed e every sisingle detetention center in california where hunger strikers demanded ththe governo to take actionon, particularly stop t transferrrring people be released, who are eligible for parole from state custody and he mishandled the pandemic where there's a spreaead of covid-19 and to stop transferriring them over to ici where it spreaead the pandememi and ice hahas a long history of dehumanizing immigrants and just a complete disregard for human life and a complete disregard for providing basic access to medical care. so for months as the pandemic started, there's been this growing push by people organizing in detention centers demanding the governor take action, espececlly when h he

speaks out saying that black lives mamatter, that immigrant lives matter but his actions haveve fallen quite short of that. as you know, california had the first covid-19 death and it didndn't happen in alabama and didn't happen in georgia but happened in california under governor newsome's desk and after we exhausted channels of discussing with his office and met with his office and his complete failure to act put us in position the lives of our clients and community membebers were at risk and we felt compeleled to take action and bring their demands directly to the governor's door and why we staged that civil disobedient action a week ago. juan: luis angel reyes, , what specifically are the governor's powersrs in this s situation? what are the limititations on i and d what could he do the tively in terms of transfer of folks to ice detention? lewis luis: the hunger strikers, and the movement has been clear

what the governor can do. federal courtsts in californrni and acrossss the country have founund that ice condititions a so gruesome, that they're so inhumane, that they pose such a danger to life and to health that detention under this pandemic is actuallyly unconstitutional and have been ordering people's release and the hunger strikers have been able to obtbtain rerelease thro these means but after the federal courts ruled ice is generally unconstitututional under this pandedemic, governor newsom has repopulated the detention centers by transferring people eligible for parole and release from state custody and transferring them directly to ice custody, feeding now the largest exporter of covid-19 across the world which is ice. so the demands are very clear, that the governor under state law has the authority to not cooperate with ice especially under these dire circumstances where it is life and death and stop transferring people in state custody and to stop populating the ice detention

centers. he has the authority to inspect these facilities and has the authority to inspect the deaths of carlos mejia in california a and he hasn't inspected these facility ansd we expect better from the governor and the governor has the authority to utilize his clemency power to release as many people vulnerable from covid-19 from state custody and completely ignored thesee demands and also iled to stop the expansion and these demands by danding it in califoia and by withlding these facitities to hold them accountable ando spect where covi1919 has taken ace in the filities and use his clemencyower in his authority and failed to act. e put our o own health at risk

by risking arrest and myself being cumented and put myself at riswhen the commuty members arscleeming at the top of their lunges and taking drastic acon to demand life unr this pandemic and to not be forgotten we felt it was necessary to take these actions and what we were met with after staging the civil disobedience at the governor's mansion was that governor newsom resorted to the riot police and also a rare bail enhancement to make surere the protesteters were booked intnto jail, a a jail in sacramento th has had a covid-19 outbreak and really what it did was expose us and gave us a little glimpse of what our clients have been telling us for months which is that you can't socially isolate or physically distance in detention and in jail and that the situationon inside prisons a tragedy waiting to happen.

therss already been nearly 50 deaths in california and you know, this is on the governor's hands and needs to do more. amamy: let me ask you about a colleague of yours, one of the peoplele who was arrested, immigrgration attorneys andd actitivists outside thee mansio. she had a fevever, can you explainn what happened?? luis: we took many precautions before doing this action. wewe socially distanced during the proteststs, we also got cov tested before the proteststs. but instead of the governor meeting with us, r resorted to riot police. riot police were not wearing protective gear and no facemasks. we were then arrested and he then learned he used the bail enhancement to book us into jail andnd this colleague you mentioned tested a temperature above 100 degrees and was asked to drink cold water and drink ice water to lower that temperature so instead of following the protocols governor newewsom every weweek preacheses on t television,n, t state polilice, you know, the

sacramento jail guards didn't practice these basic prorotocol and with the case of one o of o colleaeagues, actually circumvented those protocols by having that individual drink cold water and then inside the jail, the squalid cells, the grgrimy cells, no hygiene or r or sociall d distancing. several colleagues were denied food in the 16 hours and were denied water and were e dedehydrateded and o one collea was vomiting from dehydration and asked for medical assistance and was denied basic medical care. so again, these really tragic stories we're hearing from our clients in detention were all too real when we experienced this firsthand. again, only for a period of 16 hours and d our clients have be in detention. you'll hear from joe for momonths, oftentimes years. amy: we'll go to joe now and ththank you, luis angel reyes, co-director of the pangea services in san francisco and

undocumented yourself and risk the arrest outside governor newsom's mansion while participating in the peaceful prototest calling for the r rel of people from ice prisons andn isis a pandedec. many ice jails are facing repeated work strikes and hunger strikes and other protests over r the lack of access of personalal protectcti equipment t or quality medical care. or r more w we are joined inn salinas california by joe majia who helped lead a hungeger stri at the yuba county jail where he was held by ice nearly 11 months and released last week. welcome to democracy now!. talk about the conditions within the yuba county jail. how many detained immigrants were there? you had been transfered fromom had a prison where you served fullll time to this jail. whwhat happened inside? joe: yes, so i paroled in 2017 in october. which ediately r.n.r.,.,

is the booking andnd receiving end of prison where they book yoyou in and t transfer you ouo ice was there to pick me up as soon as i was released and they took me to my first detention facility which was in elk grovo which is now closed because the contract had ended. and since then i have been bounced around to two more detentntion facilities after th which lanned in yuba county jail in august of last year. and that place is dangerous. it's a death sentence to detainees especially right now withth the coronavirus. medical attention is very poor at best. the conditions there are filfthy. the staff arere very aware of t dangers and dire e situatioion they have us all in and they just don't care. they don't care about our safety. they don't care about our well-being and it's clear in the way t they treat us and in

the hygiene kits and the food and water r that they provide u it's clear signal of their poor treatment and negligence towards us. and like you mentioned, i helped lead a hunger strike about two weeks agogo and thankfully, you know, i was blessed and r released last tuesday. thanks to this covid-19 bond ich they're calling it in there but it's basically a death sentence, anyone picked up from the prisons or votes and going into a detention center, it's basically a death sentence. they're playing russian roulette with their lives and people are getting infected. in discretion. there are infections in bakersfield. gavin newsom knows it's going on and yet he's doing nothing to prevent it to stop it from

further spreading. they're actually hand delivering coronavirus to all these other countries when they're deporting them. india, mexico, guatemala, el salvador, all these countries. they know they have infected people and continue to deport them into these countries that have little to no resources to combat covid-19. so, you know, anybody can see that t they're one of t the mai contributors to the spreading of coronavirus worldwide. and yet they're doing nothing to prevent it or stop it from continuing to spread. and d i feel gavin newsom has - yes, sir. juan: joe, i wanted to ask you, what was the response e of the guards within the detention centnter as you began organizin the hunger strike? was s there any attempts at retaliation before you were released? joe: yes. they always retaliated even before the hunger strike. this f facacity is ran by

sheriffs. it's a county jail. so their tactics are intimidation and retaliation always. so when we did the hunger strike,, they pepper sprayed some of the detainees, they isolated them in w what we call cold rooms or coolout room with no bed, no entertainment, no phones, , no nothing. it's just a toilet in a big rubber room and they had them there with thehe threat of i if you're not going to eat, you're goining to remain here until yo eat.t. so through these tactics and pspsychological warfare, they tried to scare us frfrom practicing our first amendment right of freedom of speecech an prprotest, peacefuful protest a at no time did any of the detainees attack these officers or were aggressisive towards th but these officersrs clearly attatacked, handcuffed, manhandled the detainees and pepper sprayed them and held them in these cold rooms until they ate. so i mean, thihis hasas been go on f for years. amy:y: did youou have access to

masksks and protective gear? joe: sure. they gave us masks but didn't provide hem fofor us. local organizations provided us with handmade masks. so you know, they alalways twis things around and always find a way to pununish us for any type of thing like this. so they made a rule if we hand wash these masksks we'll get written up or get disciplined for it. little things like that. but yet they can't provide us with clean masks. they just give us that one mask. the laundry there is v very bad. everything that comes back from laundry smells like urine, , it always sustained. everyoyone is scared to send these masks off to laundry because they know it will come back smelling worse than what they sent it off with. amy: is the hunger strike continuing there, joe? joe: as far as i no, no, but they're planning a second wave of hunger strikes because they've done nothing to accommodate our dire situation with the coronavirus. as a matter of fact, i brougugh a hygiene kit with me from yuba county jail. if you're indigent, this is

what you're supposed to clean your entire body with. this is the bar of soap they expect a grown man to clean their body with. you have no money at yuba county jail, you're basically going to starve and have very poor hygiene. that's one of the things we're demanding from ice and yuba county jail is that they give us basic care, basic necessities, things that any basic human deserves like shoes. they don't give us shoes w when we go ininto yububa and we don' get q tips or lotion,n, none of that. these are the thihings they're demanding from yuba and ice. amy: joe, i have to cut you off but i thank you so much for being an important voicece now outside. you were inside. and joe mejia, asylum seeker recently released in yuba county j jail where he was held by ice for nearly 11 months. when we come back, we find outu what happened on thehe arizona-a-mexico b border r wit raid. stay with us.

[music break] ♪ amy: groovy. this is dedemocracy now! the quarantine r report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we end the today's show in arizona, where officicers raide a camp of a humanititarian deat no more deaths friday and detained 3 30 migrant and there whereabouts are unknown and two

days on the camp that provides food andnd medicine for those immigrants crossing the united states and the raids carried out by the bortac teams, the same militarized operation units recently deployed to protesters in oregon and came after no more deaths documents showing the pro trump and anti-extremist group instigated a 2017 raid of the same camp. for more we e go to tucson and joined by montana tems, onene o the humanitarian aid workers with n no more deaths. what happened last friday? [no audio ♪ my: we don't hear you, montano. c.j.: thank k you for havaving . likeou said, it w was a

military style raid that happenened on friday. 24/77 been surveilling surveillance sincece thursday morning g in the c camp. they had 24 border patrol agent trucks come. there was a helicopter 200 feet above the camp. theyey had a bortac bearcat tan that entered the camp alongside bobortac agents with huge assau rifles walalking into the camp. they were the first wave to neutralize a any threa there was a.t.v.'s, drones, the whole shebang came out to utilize the threat.t. immediately after they bettered the camp the first t thing they did was round up the no more aths aid workers and tie them, remove their phones and was very clear they didn't want any witnesses for what they

were about to o do next. they were able to overhear from the border patrol radios that there was chasing o of migrantt happening. they described the accounts ththey were heararing on the ra as violent and scary. and d border patrol after they seized 30 0 plus migrants that ere s seeking food and medical attetention, they proceeded to completely trash the camp. they slashed all the tents and slashed people's personal tents. they overturnened anythining th we had. they flalash opened cots. complete ransack of the place. they took all of our medicall phones and all of ourr

that were in thehe oftfts and f asked for volunteers for evidenence. they disconnected the only water source that the camp has, which volunteers. they did this in a flash and didn't show any warrant at first and w when they did show the warrant, the one thing that volunteers noticed was that on the warrant under "items toto b eized" it s said illegal a ali. , meaning migrants. so it just showed they viewed the migranants as objects to be seized from the premises. and just fufurther proves their justification of dehumanizing michael jordan rants to justify their violence. juan: montana, we have e a minu leleft but if you could talklk about this issue of them raraiding u jujust afterer you released a report s similar t t what happened back in 2017 when a raid happenened after y you

releaseded a report? montana: yeah, so in 2017 w we releleased the disappear part 2 and a about four h hours later scott warren was apprehended. . this time i it's less than 24 hours so we released this report, released documenents on wednesday at about 11:0000 a.m. and the first time they entered camp without a warrant wasas on thursday around 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. so less than 24 hours later, they started their i intimidati tactics and surveillance. amy: this was bortac, thehe sam unit, ththe kind -- the same grououp that has been going aft black lives matter in places lilike portland,d, oregon? we have five second. montana: yes, yes, borortac. amy: i want to thank so you much, montatana thames, humanitarian aid worker withth more death ansd we'e'll continu to show what happen there is andd people can go to our website at dememocracynow.org t get our interviews with scott

warren after he was arrested. that does it for our show, democracy now! is produced with nee felts, mike burke, deana guzder, libby rainy, i'm amy

welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo. we begin this hour here in tokyo, where officials are cracking down on night life establishments and entertainment venues to make sure anticoronavirus measures are in practice.