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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    ICE agents arrest hundreds of agricultural workers

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced sweeping raids at food processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday. Nearly 700 people were arrested in what ICE described as the largest single-state enforcement action in U.S. history.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Aug 8, 2019 • 50m Listen

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced sweeping raids at food processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday. Nearly 700 people were arrested in what ICE described as the largest single-state enforcement action in U.S. history.

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    5 stories
    1. 0:00

      ICE's largest operation against unauthorized workers ever in Mississippi

      Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced sweeping raids at food processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday. Nearly 700 people were arrested in what ICE described as the largest single-state enforcement action in U.S. history.

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      8 min
    2. 7:37

      Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein accused of misappropriating millions from CEO

      Leslie Wexner, the billionaire CEO behind Victoria’s Secret and other big brands, says Jeffrey Epstein misappropriated many millions of his dollars.

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      8 min
    3. 15:39

      What's driving the boycotts of SoulCycle and Equinox?

      Billionaire Stephen Ross owns the indoor cycling company SoulCycle and the high-end gym Equinox. He's also a GOP donor and friend of President Trump. He'll be hosting a fundraiser for Trump in the Hamptons on Friday.

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      7 min
    4. 22:30

      Film looks at lasting trauma from China's One Child Policy

      For decades, China limited the number of children families could have to just one. The One Child Policy was implemented in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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      19 min
    5. 41:56

      'Mock album covers' of Gary Cannone: conceptual art meets heavy metal

      Los Angeles artist Gary Cannone supplants images of iconic art pieces into classic album covers to create “mock album covers,” as he calls them.

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      8 min
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      Barbara Bogaev

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Associate producer

      News

    In this episode

    5 stories
    1. 0:008 min

      ICE's largest operation against unauthorized workers ever in Mississippi

    2. 7:378 min

      Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein accused of misappropriating millions from CEO

    3. 15:397 min

      What's driving the boycotts of SoulCycle and Equinox?

    4. 22:3019 min

      Film looks at lasting trauma from China's One Child Policy

    5. 41:568 min

      'Mock album covers' of Gary Cannone: conceptual art meets heavy metal

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