Show notes
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is currently facing a staggering backlog of 11.3 million pending cases, a crisis exemplified by the detention of professional soccer player Homero Calderón. Despite having two pending immigration applications, including an EB-1A visa for extraordinary abilities, Calderón has been held in an ICE detention center in Folkston, Georgia, for six months following a traffic stop for speeding. His case highlights a significant shift in federal policy where individuals with active, lawful applications are no longer shielded from detention. While the backlog existed previously, it has grown by 1.6 million cases since 2025. This episode also covers the arrest of an armed man at a Trump-owned golf course in California, the rescue of a French family stranded for 16 hours off the coast of Thailand, and the celebratory atmosphere of Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams game in Iowa, featuring 26 Hall of Fame legends.


