Joe Rogan calls Trump's targeting of migrant workers for deportation “insane”

Rogan: “Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?”

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From the July 2, 2025, edition of The Joe Rogan Experience, posted to YouTube

AMJAD MASAD (GUEST): Yeah, I don't know what you think of the new administration. Certainly, there are things that I like about it, some of their pro-tech posture and things like that. But what's happening now is — it's kind of disappointing.

JOE ROGAN (HOST): It's insane. We were told there would be no — well, there's two things that are insane. One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?

MASAD: Or Palestinian students on college campuses, or not like, there's a — did you see this video of this Turkish student at Tufts University that wrote an essay and then there's video of like, ICE agents, like —

ROGAN: Is that the woman?

MASAD: Yeah, yeah.

ROGAN: Yeah. What was her essay about? It was just critical of Israel, right?

MASAD: Just critical of Israel, yeah. I mean —

ROGAN: And that's enough to get you kicked out of the country.