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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:44 PM Jul 2025

Trump says he wants to deport 'the worst of the worst.' Government data tells another story

President Trump has pledged to deport “the worst of the worst.” He frequently speaks at public appearances about the countless “dangerous criminals” — among them murderers, rapists and child predators — from around the world he says entered the U.S. illegally under the Biden administration. He promises to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history to protect law-abiding citizens from the violent threats he says they pose.

But government data around ongoing detentions tell a different story.

There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term, with reports of raids across the country. Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions. Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes — a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.

“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-faculty director of the UCLA Law School’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy. “This administration, and also in the prior Trump administration, they consistently claim to be going after the worst of the worst and just talk about immigration enforcement as though it is all about going after violent, dangerous people with extensive criminal histories. And yet overwhelmingly, it’s people they’re targeting for arrest who have no criminal history of any kind.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-wants-deport-worst-164210381.html

Fascist cuck Miller is the one pulling the strings.

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Trump says he wants to deport 'the worst of the worst.' Government data tells another story (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 OP
He & president steve miller HIRE the worst of the worst! SheltieLover Jul 2025 #1
Maybe he should deport himself. Dulcinea Jul 2025 #2

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