The Malignant Fascist's regime has been keeping up the pace of its arrests and detentions of immigrants, regardless of any criminal record or immigration status. In fact, they're keeping a record number of people in detention, and that still isn't enough for them. From CBS News:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding around 59,000 detainees in facilities across the country, likely setting a record high as the Trump administration aggressively expands nationwide immigration arrests, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.
On Monday, June 23, ICE's detention level was — on paper at least — at over 140% capacity, since Congress last allocated 41,500 detainee beds for the agency, the figures show.
The federal statistics show nearly half — or 47% — of those currently detained by ICE lack a criminal record and fewer than 30% have been convicted of crimes, a sign of the widening scope of President Trump's escalating crackdown on illegal immigration. On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump vowed to expel dangerous criminal migrants, though top officials in his administration have said no one in the U.S. illegally will be immune from deportation.
ICE can detain immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally — as well as foreigners whose legal status is under review for potential revocation, including in cases involving criminal offenses — while the agency attempts to deport them. [snip]
Internal agency figures show ICE has averaged around 1,200 daily arrests so far in June, with arrests surpassing 2,000 on two days. That's nearly double the 660 daily arrest average during the first 100 days of President Trump's second administration, but it's still far below the 3,000 arrests top White House adviser [loathsome Nazi] Stephen Miller has said ICE should conduct every day. [snip]
[T]he Trump administration has also vastly expanded who is subject to being detained by ICE, reversing limits placed by previous administration that largely required the agency to focus on arresting serious criminals, national security threats and recent arrivals. The administration also lifted a Biden-era pause on immigration roundups at worksites, launching arrest operations at a meat processing plant in Nebraska and a horse racetrack in Louisiana. (our emphasis)
With that level of thuggery, they're running out of detention facilities in the U.S. But guess which State is stepping up to the plate:
Recently, Florida state officials offered to build several immigration detention sites to support the Trump administration, including one in the Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Florida would receive federal funds to set up those facilities.
Gov. Ron "Bootsie" DeSantis, always a willing, amoral collaborator!
Here's video of some of the latest "hardened criminals" the ICE goon squads are arresting:
Feel safer now?
BONUS: This, after turning the rest of the world into a gulag for our immigrants, with the Republican Supreme Court's blessing.
I know the Trump regime will not comply with FOIA but these 1000s of incidents are going to create a whole bunch of reports. The Media should be requesting documentation everyday about these incidents (i.e. the before action plan, the day of incident report, and post kidnapping disposition) in any properly functioning Nation/Government there will be lots of reports but, it might be they aren't really keeping track of the people they are brutalizing.
ReplyDeleteGene -- I, too, doubt they're following the letter or spirit of the law, but as you say, the media (and immigrant rights groups/ACLU ) should be requesting the documentation nonetheless.
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