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Under President Trump ICE Arrests Have Increased by 627%

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“Hundreds of thousands of criminals were let into this country illegally. We are sending them home, and they will never be allowed to return.” - Secretary Noem
Fantastic job! Remember all of the Democrats who insisted their bill needed to be passed in order for Biden to properly secure the border?
 

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That's a lot of people to house and feed while their legal proceedings continue.
Don't worry, we'll be reducing staff to handle that more effectively.
 
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“Hundreds of thousands of criminals were let into this country illegally. We are sending them home, and they will never be allowed to return.” - Secretary Noem
Fantastic job! Remember all of the Democrats who insisted their bill needed to be passed in order for Biden to properly secure the border?
Promises made - Promises kept -
 
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Fantastic job!
From here: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...utes-expand-immigration-crackdown-2025-02-21/

'U.S. President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden's administration.

From the link in the OP:

'DIS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that in a single month under President Trump more than 20,000 illegal aliens were arrested.'

Deport them all and Trump will be sending back about a third of the number that Biden did. And you think that's fantastic..?
 
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Lol, I keep seeing this meme, a guy asking a girl who is looking at her phone, her brow furrowed, "What are we upset about today?" She says, "They haven't told me yet." It is the liberals who need an antagonist to beat up on. History shows that liberals (by and large) don't really want problems solved—they only want to be effective, to feel useful, and they speak in those terms. THEY want to affect others, to make their mark, etc, and not to live peacefully. Even when something they push for happens, their joy is short-lived and the victory soon forgotten.

Generally speaking, the only conservatives I have seen with blood lust are drunks or madmen. The huge majority of us only want safety (that's one purpose for government), to include safety from crime, robbery/lying of all sorts as concerns our well-being, and the continuing opportunity to pursue happiness. And we want government to leave us alone—not to tell us what to do.

Oh, and we want Government to abide by the Constitution —not in spite of the Constitution. We don't want Government to protect the individual from self-harm, nor to take away our ability to defend ourselves and those we love against those who would do us harm. We don't want to be straight-jacketed into not harming ourselves, nor government-forced into letting government defend us.
 
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Generally speaking, the only conservatives I have seen with blood lust are drunks or madmen.
Right, but that describes a fair chunk of Trump's Cabinet.
 
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Oh, and we want Government to abide by the Constitution —not in spite of the Constitution.
And to obey federal law. Trump is doing neither in a lot of cases.
 
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There is no blood lust. Noem is just trying to keep our country safe and doing her job.

I admit I have serious issues with some of her past mistakes, but I’m glad she is working hard.
 
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That's a lot of people to house and feed while their legal proceedings continue.
Which is happening anyway. The legal proceedings should be a boot out the door if they're illegal. Open and shut.
 
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