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if you think we're going to get accurate information out of this administration, you're crazy. information on war, on immigration, on healthcare, on inflation, on jobs, and so on. and, the lies are going to get bigger and bigger, as they take over the administrative state.

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Will Craft and José Olivares at The Guardian:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency is continuing to arrest an increasing number of immigrants without any criminal history, according to recent federal government data reviewed by the Guardian, demonstrating a further dramatic surge in this trend. The latest available data, released by Ice last Friday, appears to contradict Trump administration officials’ frequent assertions that the agency is prioritizing the pursuit of criminals in its immigration enforcement operations. “Our number one concern is violent criminals,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses Ice, said on TV in an interview with PBS last week. In mid-June, Ice data shows there were more than 11,700 people in immigration detention who had been arrested by Ice despite having no track record of being charged with or convicted of a crime. That represents a staggering 1,271% increase from data released on those in immigration detention immediately before the start of Trump’s second term.

Being undocumented in the US is a civil infraction, not a criminal offense. But the Trump administration has continued to push the narrative that they are targeting “criminal aliens” in their push to deport undocumented immigrants, conflating those who are only undocumented with those with criminal histories. Those seeking to stay in the US, through legal means, have also been targeted. Border czar Tom Homan has admitted the administration has decided that people without criminal records are viable to be rounded up by Ice. “[Does] everyone that has been arrested by Ice agents have a criminal record like those you’ve described?” an MSNBC host asked Homan.

“Absolutely not,” he replied. But the overarching narrative from homeland security officials has been that the administration is targeting “criminal illegal aliens”. According to the most recent data released by the government, nearly a third of all people arrested by Ice and booked into immigration detention had no criminal history. Although detainees with criminal records and with pending criminal charges still make up the majority of people arrested by Ice, the number of people with no criminal record continues to rise disproportionately. As of 15 June, there were just more than 14,500 people, who had been arrested by Ice, in the detention network with a criminal record – felony or misdemeanor – and just more than 13,000 with pending criminal charges but no convictions.

The Trump Regime’s indiscriminate policy arresting an increasing number of immigrants without any criminal history is fueling a surge of ICE detentions.

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I think the empire might be falling in our lifetime

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Starting World War 3 because no one came to your birthday party is the same as starting WW 2 because you flunked art school.

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Iran says it had already moved the Enriched Uranium

Trump already ended the Obama verification program

There's no way of knowing where or if Iran has Uranium

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