Foggy Bottom Line Episode 18: Immigration Intimidation, and a take on the state of college football

This week the Trump Administration sent Federal agents into a citizenship ceremony and pulled people who were about to take the oath out of the line because of where they came from. Also this week, a ProPublica investigation showed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained at least 170 American citizens, including a 71-year-old white woman, and held one of them for four days. A Senate report agreed. Scott and I discuss these events and what they mean for Americans and our politics. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_ICE-Report-revised-FINAL.pdf This week also saw some big events in college football, with University of Mississippi Head Coach Lane Kiffin leaving his team right before a playoff run to take the same job with LSU. Notre Dame opts out of playing a bowl game because the Playoff Committee snubbed them in favor of Miami. In the second part of the show we lighten things up a bit with a short discussion of these events and where we see college football changing as a result. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/lane-kiffin-commits-to-be-lsus-next-coach-pete-golding-promoted-to-permanent-head-coach-at-ole-miss-200513231.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/college-football-coach-double-standard-lane-kiffin/685186/ The FBL theme music is "Partners In Crime" by Alexander Nakarada, accessed at https://creatorchords.com. Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/free-music/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/