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38:57Now PlayingLincoln Square Executive Editor Susan J. Demas frames the conversation around power and responsibility. Sahara Sajjadi’s reporting for the Copper Courier fills in the human cost that policy abstractions are designed to obscure.
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What comes through is how immigration enforcement and infrastructure development follow the same governing logic: impose complexity, delay relief, and let exhaustion do the work. Sahara’s account of children in court and communities fighting data centers shows how institutions shift risk downward while insulating decision-makers from consequence. Susan pushes this outward into the political arena, linking these dynamics to Arizona’s volatility and the growing disconnect between what voters were promised and what they are experiencing. Together, they surface a larger truth about governance right now—that harm is not accidental, but administered through systems that depend on silence, fatigue, and normalization
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