The sentencing of protesters connected with a July 2025 noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Texas could mark a turning point for political dissent in the United States: Despite evidence that several defendants neither carried weapons nor participated in the shooting that injured a federal officer, eight protesters were handed a combined 450 years in prison after federal prosecutors argued they were part of a domestic terrorist conspiracy tied to “Antifa.” “The government invented a terror cell, prosecuted people for belonging to it, and got convictions.” Independent journalist Hannah Riley Fernandez joins BT Live to talk about the unprecedented sentences and the Trump administration’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) – and how it’s being used to redefine left political organizing around Palestine as domestic terrorism. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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