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mass deportation is bad for public safety
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ng-2026-05-07/
declining prosecution of criminals to pick on more or less harmless immigrants -- good people
mass deportation harms public safety
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...investigations
In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.
The bulk of these cases, which were closed without prosecution and known as declinations, had been referred to the DOJ by law enforcement agencies under prior administrations that believed a federal crime may have been committed. The DOJ routinely declines to prosecute cases for any number of reasons, including insufficient evidence or because a case is not a priority for enforcement.
But the number of declinations under Bondi marks a striking departure not only from the Biden administration but also the first Trump term, according to the ProPublica analysis, which examined two decades of DOJ data, including the first six months of Trump’s second term. ProPublica determined the increase is not the result of inheriting a larger caseload or more referrals from law enforcement.
In February 2025 alone, which included the first weeks of Bondi’s tenure, nearly 11,000 cases were declined, the most in a month since at least 2004. The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration.
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mass deportation is bad for public safety
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ng-2026-05-07/
I love that there are zero replies to Cato murking all of Trump's pretexts for mass deportation
The study below compiled public records from the last 40 years for its analysis
https://www.cato.org/white-paper/imm...gets-1994-2023Highlights:
Illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits, every single year;
Illegal immigrants are more likely to be working than US natives;
Illegal immigrants consume fewer government services than US natives;
Illegal immigrants cost less per capita than the US average;
Illegal immigrants are much more likely to be in poverty but not more likely to be receiving welfare;
Illegal immigrants are less likely to commit or be incarcerated for crimes than US natives
"The courts can't keep up with our lawbreaking or stop it"
Q: “Last month DHS recorded a record number of deportations. What changed to make that possible?”
Trump: “We just were able to break the court system a little bit. We had judges that were very hostile.”
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-cong...uel-games/amp/The mother of a USNA midshipman was detained by ICE AT HER GREEN CARD INTERVIEW and is now being held in a concentration camp and I find it insane that people don’t understand how THAT is a bigger national security threat than any undo ented immigrant.
customs summons are preferred by ICE because no court needs to sign off on it
this happened in the Cities Church case wrt to the phone records of Fort and Lemon
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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what would be the point of this besides, keeping the USA racially pure or something?
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...uareeu01.shtml
ICE has been stiffing hospitals for medical treatment of detainees since last October
https://popular.info/p/update-ice-is...hospitals-withLast year, Popular Information broke the news that on October 3, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abruptly stopping paying third parties for medical care provided to detainees. Third-party providers are used to provide “medically necessary” care including “dialysis, prenatal care, oncology, [and] chemotherapy,” according to ICE.
Prior to that date, payment for medical care for ICE detainees was processed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). But the VA “abruptly and instantly terminated” its agreement with ICE after the arrangement, which dated to the George W. Bush administration, drew criticism from right-wing activists. The activists falsely claimed that undo ented immigrants were siphoning resources from veterans. Actually, ICE was fully reimbursing the VA for the service.
According to do ents published by ICE on a government contracting website on November 12, 2025, the termination of the agreement with the VA left ICE unable to “pay for medically necessary off-site care.” ICE described this as an “absolute emergency” that needed to be resolved “immediately” to “prevent any further medical complications or loss of life.”
Eleven months later, ICE still has no system to pay for outside medical care provided after October 3, 2025.
Hospitals and other providers who continue to treat ICE detainees are not receiving payment. UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, located in Aurora, Colorado, for example, has provided medical care for ICE detainees, including 150 hospital admissions, clinic appointments and emergency visits, since last fall. It hasn’t been paid for any of these services, racking up over $4 million in unpaid bills.
“Like other healthcare providers, UCHealth has been unable to submit claims and has not been reimbursed for care provided since October 1, 2025, because of a disruption in the Department of Homeland Security’s medical payment system,” UCHealth spokesman Dan Weaver told CPR News last month.
Moshannon Valley EMS is a non-profit organization which provides ambulance services in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. As of June, it had responded to 43 calls to a local ICE detention center since October 2025. It has not been paid for any of that work. “We have to have some faith that someone’s going to do the right thing and compensate us for the work that’s provided,” EMS chief Fred Ferguson told NOTUS.
Internal data obtained by Popular Information reveals that, in 2024, the VA processed over $246 million in medical claims related to the treatment of ICE detainees (and a much smaller number of detainees held by Customs and Border Patrol) by third parties. Data obtained by American Oversight found the VA processed $96 million in claims in 2025 before the relationship with ICE was terminated.
In the absence of payment, it is unclear how many providers, like UCHealth, are continuing to provide treatment and how many are refusing to treat ICE detainees.
A private company, Acentra, was supposed to get a new system up and running to pay providers by April. It has been paid $36 million so far. Still nothing.
Now, Acentra is claiming they were never supposed to process claims at all. They were just creating a system for someone else to use to process claims. At the end of June, DHS put out another request for information to “identify potential vendors capable of providing a comprehensive medical claims processing system.” The first question asks: “What are your typical and realistic timeline [sic] for transitioning complex and comprehensive claims adjudication and provider reimbursement services… ?”
seems a rather harsh price to pay for having one's legal status arbitrarily revoked by the state
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...e-22384190.phpPhoto caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...I keep thinking about how Republicans campaigned and fundraised forever off of the Clinton administration repatriating Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, how they told Cuban-Americans for generations that only Republicans could be trusted to protect their families and friends... and here we are
ICE has no authority to police elections, let alone to gather voting history
Noncitizen voting is infinitessimal in scale
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-plan...ting-database/In a bid to tackle alleged voter fraud, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to award a contract worth up to $5 million to a company that will create a massive national database of voters.
ICE first detailed what the contract would entail in a do ent published last week. “The purpose of this acquisition is for the handling and secure delivery of publicly available voter registration files and voter history files to support Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fraud detection and data segmentation activities,” the do ent reads.
In the do ent, ICE says that the agency will initially provide a list of specific states it wants to acquire public voter registration files from, though the successful contractor will need to have the capability to obtain data from all 50 states. ICE is also seeking voting history data “for each federal election specified by the government, including general, primary, runoff, and special federal elections.” ICE is seeking publicly available information from each state, which each have their own rules around how it is obtained. This would include voter registration, and in many cases, voting history. Either could potentially include party affiliation—a move that experts believe will violate a right to privacy for US voters.
They're gonna need way more money to find data that barely exists
to say nothing of outside legal representation for yet another massive and certainly illegal government intrusion of privacy
DOJ covering up crimes is misprision of justice
Won't be the last time
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4
https://www.propublica.org/article/d...sar-sosa-celisOver the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
The agent, 52-year-old Christian Castro, allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg in Minneapolis this January during Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s immigration blitz that sent thousands of federal agents into the state. The incident was one of three shootings by immigration agents in the city, the other two of which were fatal.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to charge Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law for the shooting of Sosa-Celis, according to several people familiar with the case. Those charges are similar to the ones leveled against Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s killing and can carry hefty prison sentences.
Late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans, the assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota in charge of the case, told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims to prepare for Castro to be charged “only with False Statements,” according to an email that was reviewed by ProPublica.
That charge would likely carry a far less severe punishment if he were convicted.
“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”
blast from the recent past
lowing standards, hiring creeps and criminals
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...core-ios-share
The scrutiny of ICE’s hiring practices has intensified in recent weeks, spurred in part by the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian immigrant, in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13.
The two ex-wives of the ICE agent David Brouillette, one of whom identified him as the person who fired the fatal shots, have accused him in interviews and court records of being abusive. In a filing for a protection order in December 2019, one ex-wife wrote that he had broken her door down, destroyed her belongings and dumped her clothes over a bridge.
The women also have saidMr. Brouillette, a former military serviceman and Veterans Affairs police officer who was hired amid the recruiting surge last year, had post-traumatic stress disorder related to his deployment in Afghanistan. A local official in Maine told The Portland Press Herald that Mr. Brouillette sought jobs with the Hallowell Police Department in 2024 but was denied because there were “too many red flags.” Mr. Brouillette could not be reached for comment
The preliminary vetting process, which took seven to 10 days, was upended last summer. The vetters were told to make determinations on recruits without having the full security form, fingerprints or any polygraph testing, according to the former unit chief and a former federal official familiar with the process who was granted anonymity to speak freely about it.
That meant new hires were heading to training without having their iden ies, criminal histories and other basic information checked and verified, the unit chief said.
The agency also sped up its training program, cutting it from roughly 10 weeks to six. This resulted in agents reporting to their full-time positions while their full background checks were pending.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/...ement-officer/In July, a new ICE agent with a history of domestic violence and mental illness killed a man in Maine who even ICE admits posed no threat to him.
ICE murdered a guy in Texas in July
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ams-rcna353690
electronic shackles for Haitian refugees Springfield, Ohio had encouraged to move there
in what way was this honor student a danger to public safety after the US government arbitrarily revoked his legal status?
https://prospect.org/2026/09/03/ice-...tected-status/On Monday morning, Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old TPS recipient living in Springfield, Ohio, walked into highway traffic and was struck and killed by a truck. He had been fitted with an ankle monitor in July, which his family cites as being the source of his depression and subsequent suicide. Bel had just started taking courses at Wright State University in Fairborn, about 15 miles away from Springfield, after graduating high school with honors. He was an avid soccer player and member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program.
After receiving an ankle monitor, Bel could no longer play soccer without it beeping. He couldn’t be fitted for an ROTC uniform like his peers. At school, he was bullied and called a criminal. According to his father, Bel took two trips back to the ICE offices in Cincinnati and Westville to “plead to the officers to remove the bracelet.”
arresting factory workers in Illinois today
YEAH BUT THEY MIGHT HAVE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL AND I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THATwith no measurable gain to public safety or national prosperity
in fact, mass deportation hurts both
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