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Episode 53: The War of Words - How Rhetoric Shapes Immigration Policy

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Immigration policy isn’t just written in laws or enforced at borders—it’s fought in the language that defines who belongs and who doesn’t. In this episode, Bella Goode unpacks how words like illegal alien, dreamers, border invasion, and keep families together shape perception, drive policy, and normalize extremes. From Congress to cable news, ICE press releases to family stories on the ground, rhetoric decides what feels like common sense—and what cruelties the public will accept.

Key Takeaways To Listen For

  • How dehumanizing labels like illegal alien criminalize people before facts are considered
  • Why Republicans frame immigration as a threat and Democrats reframe it around dignity and trauma
  • The CBS/Kristi Noem controversy and what it reveals about political pressure on media narratives
  • ICE’s official messaging: why raids risking billions in trade are reframed as patriotic victories
  • How psychological research shows repeated rhetoric reshapes public opinion and justifies harsher laws
  • Case studies of powerful phrases and the policies they enabled

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Bella is a former Republican turned democracy advocate raised by middle class parents in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania with a masters of business administration from Wharton and a Masters Degree in Positive Psychology.

Career wise, Bella spent 20 years with American Express in New York and 20 years as an entrepreneur. She started and sold a fitness business that grew to 180 locations worldwide.

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Immigration policy isn’t just written in laws or enforced at borders—it’s fought in the language that defines who belongs and who doesn’t. In this episode, Bella Goode unpacks how words like illegal alien, dreamers, border invasion, and keep families together shape perception, drive policy, and normalize extremes. From Congress to cable news, ICE press releases to family stories on the ground, rhetoric decides what feels like common sense—and what cruelties the public will accept.

Key Takeaways To Listen For

  • How dehumanizing labels like illegal alien criminalize people before facts are considered
  • Why Republicans frame immigration as a threat and Democrats reframe it around dignity and trauma
  • The CBS/Kristi Noem controversy and what it reveals about political pressure on media narratives
  • ICE’s official messaging: why raids risking billions in trade are reframed as patriotic victories
  • How psychological research shows repeated rhetoric reshapes public opinion and justifies harsher laws
  • Case studies of powerful phrases and the policies they enabled

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Join the Community

Subscribe to Surviving Trump on Substack to keep me churning. bellagoodepodcast.substack.com

Know someone who thinks Project 2025 won’t affect them? Share this episode. Help them see the full picture.

Join me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SurvivingTrump?

Join me on X https://x.com/bella_good3658

Join me on Linked In

Support the show

Host: Bella Goode

Bella is a former Republican turned democracy advocate raised by middle class parents in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania with a masters of business administration from Wharton and a Masters Degree in Positive Psychology.

Career wise, Bella spent 20 years with American Express in New York and 20 years as an entrepreneur. She started and sold a fitness business that grew to 180 locations worldwide.

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