Evicting ICE from Nassau Jail; Gov. Cuomo Talks Roe, MTA and More; Amazon's Agenda; Nurturing Cross-Racial Friendships
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 23, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- After originally ordering ICE agents to leave the property of the Nassau County Correctional Center, Laura Curran, Nassau County executive, announced Tuesday they would be re-located to the campus of the Nassau County Medical Center (located right next to the jail). She talks about her decision. Then, James McDermott, Nassau County Police Benevolent Association president, argues that it will make community members less safe to move ICE agents off the Nassau County Correctional Center property and Glykeria Tsiokanou, senior staff attorney at Make the Road New York, shares Make the Road's perspective on the ICE issue in Nassau County.
- Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York (D) , celebrates the Reproductive Health Act's passing in New York, which codifies Roe v. Wade into New York State law, talks about the latest with the MTA and more.
- Executive editor of City Limits and co-host of the Max & Murphy Show Jarrett Murphy, talks about the Amazon deal and the company's public policy agenda.
- Deborah Plummer, a practicing psychologist, vice chancellor and chief diversity officer at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care, and the author of Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships (Beacon Press, 2019), talks about her new book.
