{"id":2428582,"date":"2025-04-29T03:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-deportations-keep-michelle-obama-up-at-night-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T03:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:45:27","slug":"trumps-deportations-keep-michelle-obama-up-at-night-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-deportations-keep-michelle-obama-up-at-night-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s deportations keep Michelle Obama \u2018up at night\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-deportations-keep-michelle-obama-up-at-night-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2428582&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riverside-county-sheriff-not-requiring-vaccine-for-employees\/\" title=\"Riverside County sheriff not requiring vaccine for employees\">recent podcast episode<\/a> of &#8220;On Purpose with Jay Shetty,&#8221; former First Lady Michelle Obama expressed that the deportations of illegal immigrants initiated by President Donald Trump keep her &#8220;up at night.&#8221; During the discussion, she shared her concerns about the current climate regarding immigrants in the U.S., highlighting a shift in her fears from personal safety to the wellbeing of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">undocumented individuals facing deportation<\/a>. obama criticized the Trump management for making such decisions without appropriate court oversight and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-kraken-released-attorney-sidney-powell-files-104-page-bombshell-complaint-of-massive-fraud-in-georgia-election-update-michigan-too\/\" title=\"BREAKING: KRAKEN RELEASED! Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page BOMBSHELL COMPLAINT of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election - Update: Michigan too\">due process<\/a>. She emphasized the prevalence of racism and bias that she believes fuels these immigration policies, expressing her worries for people of color across the nation and the lack of advocacy to protect them.Throughout the conversation, she reflected on her observations of individuals in vulnerable positions while driving through Los Angeles, illustrating her empathy for those affected by these issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump&rsquo;s deportations keep Michelle Obama &lsquo;up at night&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2108918\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The deportations of illegal immigrants in the country ordered by President Donald Trump keep Michelle Obama awake at night. That is what the former first lady told podcast host Jay Shetty in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedians-who-betrayed-their-fellow-comics-by-supporting-cancel-culture\/\" title=\"Comedians Who Betrayed Their Fellow Comics by Supporting Cancel Culture\">episode released<\/a> on Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shetty, Obama, and her brother Craig Robinson discussed their fears growing up. Shetty then asked the former president&rsquo;s wife about her current concerns. He asked Obama to identify the &ldquo;hardest recent test of that fear.&rdquo; She replied with her current worries about illegal immigrants in the U.S. who were being deported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3394507\/education-department-ruled-university-of-pennsylvania-violated-title-ix\/\">Education Department ruled that the University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3394424\/trump-fema-review-council-members-fix-system\/\">Trump announces FEMA Review Council members to fix &#8216;broken system&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3394272\/liberals-projected-win-canadian-elections-mark-carney-remains-prime-minister\/\">Liberals projected to win Canadian elections with Carney remaining as prime minister<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;In this current climate, for me, it&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s happening to immigrants,&rdquo; Obama said during an interview for the &ldquo;On Purpose with Jay Shetty&rdquo; podcast.<\/p>\n<p>She then explained how she progressed from safety concerns about herself and her family to illegal immigrants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I drive around in a four-car motorcade with a police escort,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Michelle Obama. I do still worry about my daughters in the world, even though they are somewhat recognizable. So, my fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She then accused the Trump administration of making decisions to deport illegal immigrants without court rulings and legitimate due process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And we know that those decisions aren&rsquo;t being made with courts and with due process,&rdquo; echoing a left-wing claim that has been proven false. She also lamented the large amounts of racism prevalent in the country, which, she said, was the impetus for such choices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance that fuels those kind of choices,&rdquo; Obama <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/28\/us-news\/michelle-obama-expresses-fears-about-trumps-deportation-policy-keeps-me-up-at-night\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;I worry for people of color all over this country, and I don&rsquo;t know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody. &#8203;&#8203;And that makes me, that frightens me. It keeps me up at night.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I know that there are, and I see that when I&rsquo;m driving around L.A. I&rsquo;m just looking in the faces of folks who could be victim, and I&rsquo;m wondering, how are you feeling?&rdquo; she <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/28\/michelle-obama-fears-trump-deportation-policy-not-enough-advocates-it-keeps-me-up-at-night\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>. &ldquo;How do you feel standing on the bus stop? How do you feel comfortable going to work, going to school when you know that there could be people out here judging you and who could upend your life in a second?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, that&rsquo;s who I worry for right now. &rdquo;That&rsquo;s who I worry for right now,&rdquo; said Obama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2108918\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2108918\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s deportations worry Michelle Obama deeply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2428583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/michelle-obama-womens-healthcare-harris-rally.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[8675,3813,32618,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2428582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-deportations","tag-immigration","tag-michelle-obama","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/michelle-obama-womens-healthcare-harris-rally.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428586,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428582\/revisions\/2428586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}