Immigration Policy

[Zarathud]

Some family values right there, rejecting a citizen’s interest in falling in love and marrying a non-citizen. Because you should be hating foreigners.

Deplorable wasn’t a strong enough word.

[Smoove_B]

New day. new costume for Meet the Press:

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Noem about President Donald Trump's plan to expand Gitmo detention facilities for immigrants and migrants.

"There are a lot of questions about the announcement this week that Guantanamo Bay will be used as a detention facility for migrants," Welker noted.

"We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained," Noem said. "We're just building out some capacity."

"Is it possible, Madam Secretary, that people could be held at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely?" Welker wondered.

The clincher:

"Could women, children, and families be held there at Guantanamo?" Welker pressed.

"You know, if you look at what we are doing today is targeting the worst of the worst," Noem dodged again. "The priority of this president is to go after criminal aliens that are making our streets more dangerous."

So that's a yes.

[$iljanus]

Well, as the old saying goes to justify this sort of thing...

"Nits make lice"

[Smoove_B]

This is fine:

Texas National Guardsmen are now authorized to make immigration arrests at the border, based on an agreement between the state and the Trump administration.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday. The memo was released Sunday, and according to the governor, arrests can be made, "effective immediately."

The guardsmen are required to be accompanied by Border Patrol agents.

"This boosts manpower for border security," Abbott wrote in a post on social media to describe the collaboration between the CBP and the Texas National Guard.

[Max Peck]

What's the over/under on days until there's a skirmish between Mexican and Cowboy border patrols?

[LawBeefaroni]

What's the over/under on days until there's a skirmish between Mexican and Cowboy border patrols?

I think a friendly fire incident is more likely.

[Smoove_B]

It's happening already:

The United States started flying undocumented migrants out to Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday under President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed during an appearance on the Fox Business Network the first deportation flights to the notorious detention center were underway today.

"President Trump is not messing around, and he's no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world," she said.

And just like that, people start disappearing.

[Unagi]

This is where the US sends people to hide them from lawyers.

[Smoove_B]

Can you imagine the headlines on Fox News if Biden was doing this:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is releasing some migrant detainees, in some cases dozens per day, as space in its detention system has exceeded maximum capacity amid a spike in arrests by the agency under President Trump, internal government statistics obtained by CBS News show.

On Tuesday morning, space inside ICE detention facilities was at 109% capacity, with the agency holding close to 42,000 migrant detainees, despite having, on paper, a 38,521-bed capacity in its network of for-profit prisons and county jails, according to the internal Department of Homeland Security data. More than half of those in ICE custody were initially arrested along the southern border, the figures show.

On Monday, ICE released roughly 160 migrants from its custody, the figures show, an indication that the Trump administration, faced with the same operational and legal challenges on immigration enforcement that have bedeviled Democratic and Republican presidents, is being forced to release some detainees. Those released can be fitted by ICE with ankle monitors, to track their movements.

Catch and release under Trump!

But seriously, this feels like it will be justification to just...deal with them in other ways.

[Kraken]

Who says they're entitled to a bed?