Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump’s first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.
Nearly 40% of all of those arrested by ICE in Mr. Trump’s first year back in office did not have any criminal record at all, and were only accused of civil immigration offenses, such as living in the U.S. illegally or overstaying their permission to be in the country, the DHS document shows.
Tag: Donald Trump
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“The worst of the worst”
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Trump to steal Nobel peace prize
Hannity: Let me ask you about María Corina Machado. She said to me this week, both on TV and radio, that she wants to give the Nobel prize, HER Nobel peace prize, to you, for liberating her country. Do you have any plans to meet with her, and would you accept the Nobel prize she wants to hand to you?
Trump: Well I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her. And I’ve heard that she wants to do that, it would be a great honor.
Oh, Trump absolutely kidnapped Maduro to steal the Nobel peace prize he has coveted for so long. Eighty people died for this. Absolutely disgusting.
Trump says he will meet Machado — and would accept Nobel Peace Prize from her (Washington Post)
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You just know that at least 5% of the reason Trump went into Venezuela is so that he could say “the Donroe Doctrine”
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“It sounds good to me.”
[Colombia], he claimed, was “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”
“He’s not going to be doing it for very long,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories. He’s not going to be doing it.” Asked whether the United States would conduct an operation against Colombia, the president said: “It sounds good to me.”
After Venezuela, Trump Offers Hints About What Could Be Next (New York Times)
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A group
Asked who was running Venezuela, Mr. Trump said “a group.”
After seizing Maduro, Trump says U.S Will “run” Venezuela (New York Times)
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Without shame or unease
“Trump, as he often does when he is breaking law or norms, is acting publicly and without shame or unease. This is a very successful way to destroy the efficacy of law and norms.”
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law (New York Times)
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“Then we’ll do a few at a time”
Trump outlines his plan for continuing to invade American cities:
Trump: “We’re going to Memphis.”
Jones: “That’s the next city?”
Trump: “Memphis is deeply troubled. We’re gonna fix that just like we did Washington. I would have preferred going to Chicago. […] I said, ‘So what do you think? Where should we go next, as a city?’ ‘Cause we’re gonna go one, two, three, and then we’ll do a few at a time. We’re gonna straighten out the crime in these cities. So we’re going to Memphis, I’m just announcing that now, and we’ll straighten that out.”
Earhardt: “National Guard?”
Trump: “National Guard, and anybody else we need. And, by the way, we’ll bring in the military too, if we need it.”
Trump Reveals the Next City for Federal Crime Crackdown: ‘We’re Going to Memphis’ (Mediaite)
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Republicans have mostly shrugged
The Trump administration continues to erode the power of Congress, trampling on its constitutional prerogatives in ways large and small. Through it all, Republicans in charge have mostly shrugged — and in some cases, outright applauded — as their powers, once jealously guarded, diminish in ways that will be difficult to reverse.
Trump Tramples Congress’s Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P. (New York Times)
Fediverse Reactions
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Maybe it’s happening right now
Asked Tuesday if the US would consider strikes on Venezuelan soil against the Maduro regime, Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t count out the possibility.
“This is a counter-drug operation,” Rubio said. “We are going to take on drug cartels wherever they are, wherever they are operating against the interests of the US.”
Rubio added more detail to the boat strike on Wednesday, saying, “Instead of interdicting it, on the president’s orders, we blew it up. And it’ll happen again. Maybe it’s happening right now,” Rubio added.
