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marmar

(78,853 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:04 PM Jun 2025

Stephen Miller's deportation machine is failing -- and he's furious

Stephen Miller’s deportation machine is failing — and he’s furious
The Trump advisor is angry that the promise of "mass deportation now" remains largely unfulfilled

By Charles R. Davis
News Editor
Published May 29, 2025 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) The country, we were told, is awash with millions upon millions of undocumented criminals and straight-up crazy people, permitted by Democrats and their open borders to roam the land and terrorize the law-abiding white people they were meant to replace.

....(snip)....

In reality, which still holds some influence in our aggressively-online world, there are about 11 million undocumented people in the U.S., total. And despite all-caps propaganda to the contrary, they as a class “have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens,” according to a 2020 study; they even commit fewer crimes, on average, than fully legal immigrants — those who came here “the right way.”

....(snip)....

That’s why Stephen Miller is so mad: an administration that wants nothing more than to parade millions of brown bodies onto military aircraft and out of the country — a MAGA team that promised its voters nothing less than “mass deportations now” — is having a tough time actually finding the hardened criminals the last folks supposedly let in. In April, the Trump administration deported more than 17,200 people; that’s up 29% from a year but it’s far below the pace necessary to meet the stated goal of one million deportees a year (and per NBC News, more than half of those now in ICE detention have no criminal record whatsoever).

....(snip)....

That’s why Stephen Miller is so mad: an administration that wants nothing more than to parade millions of brown bodies onto military aircraft and out of the country — a MAGA team that promised its voters nothing less than “mass deportations now” — is having a tough time actually finding the hardened criminals the last folks supposedly let in. In April, the Trump administration deported more than 17,200 people; that’s up 29% from a year but it’s far below the pace necessary to meet the stated goal of one million deportees a year (and per NBC News, more than half of those now in ICE detention have no criminal record whatsoever). ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/29/stephen-millers-deportation-machine-is-failing--and-hes-furious/




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Stephen Miller's deportation machine is failing -- and he's furious (Original Post) marmar Jun 2025 OP
How can you find that which does not exist? CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2025 #1
Feel free to blow a gasket Nosferatu Blue Owl Jun 2025 #2
MAGA relies on quick-fix gimmicks that never work out. Midnight Writer Jun 2025 #3
Tell him it's time for him to think about getting his family into a bunker. marble falls Jun 2025 #4

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,126 posts)
1. How can you find that which does not exist?
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:07 PM
Jun 2025

Or at least does not exist in sufficient numbers?

Blue Owl

(57,346 posts)
2. Feel free to blow a gasket Nosferatu
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:11 PM
Jun 2025

2020-2024 was better without your sick fuck Nazi influence making everything suck

Midnight Writer

(24,709 posts)
3. MAGA relies on quick-fix gimmicks that never work out.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:42 PM
Jun 2025

Would you hire someone to remodel your home whose motto is "Move fast. Break shit"?

Or would you hire someone who evaluates your needs, addresses your needs with real long-term solutions, and hires quality people?

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