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marmar

(78,526 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:04 PM Jun 1

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 1 OP
How can you find that which does not exist? CaliforniaPeggy Jun 1 #1
Feel free to blow a gasket Nosferatu Blue Owl Jun 1 #2
MAGA relies on quick-fix gimmicks that never work out. Midnight Writer Jun 1 #3
Tell him it's time for him to think about getting his family into a bunker. marble falls Jun 1 #4

Blue Owl

(56,495 posts)
2. Feel free to blow a gasket Nosferatu
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:11 PM
Jun 1

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

Midnight Writer

(24,167 posts)
3. MAGA relies on quick-fix gimmicks that never work out.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:42 PM
Jun 1

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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