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You know the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli? He's like, you know, the closest thing we have to a living Walt Disney. Not a big fan of AI. When someone years ago showed him an AI animation, he responded, I feel like we are nearing the end times. We humans are losing faith. In ourselves.
That did not stop the internet from posting AI generated versions of themselves and just about everything else in Studio Ghibli style last week. And the White House even got in on the action. Their contribution was a Studio Ghibli style version of a real life photo of a woman crying while being arrested by an immigration officer.
That comes after a bunch of other White House deportation memes, including a Valentine's Day poem threatening illegal entries with deportation and a post of an ASMR video of a deportation flight. Trump, too, is trying to do the most on immigration, the illegal kind, but also the legal kind. That's ahead on Today Explained.
Megan Rapinoe here. This week on A Touch More, we are launching our much-anticipated book club, and we're doing it with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle, who will introduce their upcoming book, We Can Do Hard Things, Answers to Life's 20 Questions. Plus, we've got some fun and important updates from The W and the NWSL, and of course, we've got a new Are You a Megan or Are You a Sue?
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Michelle Hackman writes about immigration for the Wall Street Journal. Lately, that's meant writing about people who are here illegally, sure, but also people who are here totally legally. We asked her how to make sense of all that.
The way that you have to understand what's going on overarchingly is that Trump promised a mass deportation, right? He talked about this all through the campaign.
Starting on day one, I will seal the border and stop the migrant invasion into our country. We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.
He promised huge numbers. He was going to go after 15 million people, 20 million people. And from my perspective, he's not meeting that goal. And one way that he's making up for it is by going for these really big, flashy displays that are going to catch a lot of attention and scare people. That's basically what they're designed to do.
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