New numbers from the Trump administration present what we’ve identified all alongside: The biggest variety of individuals in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention are individuals with no legal report.
As a lot as President Donald Trump and his lackeys hold bragging about all of the undocumented violent criminals they’ve taken off the streets, it seems that ICE truly sucks at that. Final fall, ICE reported it knew of 13,099 undocumented individuals convicted of murder and 15,811 convicted of sexual assault, however weren’t in custody.
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As an alternative of arresting murderers, ICE is scooping up tamale distributors who’ve been right here 20 years, day laborers in Dwelling Depot parking tons, and pastors.
In response to The Guardian’s report, Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin simply went with the identical rote language the administration all the time makes use of about how nice they’re and the way harmful immigrants are:
The info are ICE is concentrating on the worst of the worst – together with murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, and rapists. Seventy per cent of ICE arrests are of legal unlawful aliens who’ve been convicted or have pending prices within the US – that doesn’t even embody identified or suspected terrorists, international gang members, convictions for violent crimes in international nations, or Interpol notices.
It’s the weasel phrases “have pending charges” that enable McLaughlin to fake her numbers make sense. Nevertheless, pending prices usually are not the identical as a legal report, irrespective of how a lot the administration claims in any other case. In actuality, 70% of these presently in detention don’t have any report, interval.
In the meantime, as ICE thugs proceed to terrorize American cities, the Trump administration nonetheless continues to insist that ICE is doing probably the most harmful work possible. Right here’s Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem with a breathless media hit about California’s passage of a regulation banning ICE from sporting masks:
And each time I’m in a room with our regulation enforcement officers, I’m speaking to them earlier than they exit on our streets. I’m simply overwhelmed by the truth that all of those younger women and men have households, that all of them wish to go house to their households at evening, too. And that individuals like Gavin Newsom are making it way more harmful for them simply to go do their jobs.
You already know who doesn’t get to go house to their households at evening? These a whole lot of South Korean employees who have been detained in a mass arrest on the Georgia Hyundai manufacturing facility. The veterans who served their nation honorably don’t get to go house both.
Chief White Home ghoul and obvious sexual matador Stephen Miller set a quota of three,000 arrests per day. That quantity was all the time going to incorporate whoever ICE might discover. Certainly, it was Miller who, in the beginning of ICE’s occupation of Los Angeles, whined that ICE wasn’t doing sufficient to hit these numbers.
“Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?” he screamed at ICE officers.
The administration has empowered ICE brokers to detain whoever they need with none actual penalties for getting it incorrect. They need straightforward arrests and gentle targets, so that they’re going to maintain racially profiling and arresting random Latino individuals.
At root, that is cowardice, all the way in which from Trump and Noem right down to the lowliest, latest ICE agent dragging somebody out of a automotive or accosting them as they depart immigration courtroom.
Bringing the entire weight of the state down on individuals who’ve carried out nothing incorrect is a pathetic present of energy, a bully puffing out his chest. Trump and his minions needs to be ashamed, however they’re not able to it.
