# The Trump deportation news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 25, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404 "2025-01-25T23:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/941 "2025-07-24T18:30:24Z")
Likely yes it was racism. And of course good ol’ stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![betonbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@betonbill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betonbill)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/942 "2025-07-24T23:07:28Z")
Not really following that particular person, but couldn’t he have simply written out, say, a request for instructions in English, or explaining his situation to his interrogators? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/943 "2025-07-24T23:11:38Z")
Did he even have access to a pen and paper? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/944 "2025-07-24T23:11:39Z")
If they gave him a pen and paper. I guess they didn’t do that simple thing. He couldn’t have told them because he’s mute. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/945 "2025-07-25T12:30:33Z")
> [@betonbill](#): > > Not really following that particular person, but couldn’t he have simply written out, say, a request for instructions in English, or explaining his situation to his interrogators? Well, yes, if - 1. they had given him pen and paper 2. removed the handcuffs so he could write ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/946 "2025-07-30T01:28:36Z")
Trump’s ICE is moving to deport a Korean green-card holder who has been in the country for 35 years and is working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. His only brush with the law came in 2011; a minor pot possession charge for which he did community service. He has been detained for more than a week without access to a lawyer. > **[Korean Scientist With Green Card Detained for a Week and Denied Access to His...](https://www.commondreams.org/news/korean-legal-resident-detained)** > > U.S. legal resident detained without explanation for a week, denied legal representation. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/947 "2025-07-30T02:42:01Z")
Working on a vaccine? He’s doomed. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/948 "2025-07-30T16:30:13Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > It is easy to refute this claim in an extremely literal manner, by showing links that all the major wire services and U.S. networks have stories on this, on their web sites, dated July 18, 2025. But by itself, that isn’t all that significant. The real question should be how prominently the story was featured. > > I do not know a good way to do that without hours of research. [Ground News](https://ground.news/) does exactly that. A news aggregator it compares the amount of coverage and the headlines used for news outlets left, right, and center, plus rates them for ‘high’ or ‘low’ factuality. It also has a Blindspot feature for stories heavily covered by one side while ignored by the other. [Reviews](https://www.stationx.net/ground-news-review/) [are](https://libguides.wvu.edu/c.php?g=1204801&p=8818927) [positive](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/ground.news) for the most part, There are three subscription tiers at $10, $30, and $100 annually but you can get discounts from a number of YouTubers. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/949 "2025-07-30T16:47:32Z")
Even a minor drug possession charge is enough to revoke green card status, unfortunately. But there still seems to be a lack of due process. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/950 "2025-07-30T17:10:01Z")
You’d think they would have done that back in 2011. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/951 "2025-07-30T17:12:02Z")
Maybe they did, and it never caught up to him until he tried re-entering the country just now? ~Max ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/952 "2025-07-30T17:54:19Z")
Green cards only last ten years, so assuming his was valid, he renewed it at least once. You’d think they would have caught it then, but that was probably a more reasonable administration. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/953 "2025-08-02T03:07:51Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Likely yes it was racism. And of course good ol’ stupidity. And cruelty. Mustn’t forget the cruelty. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/954 "2025-08-02T03:24:21Z")
I heard on the local news this morning that there are seven confirmed cases of tuberculosis at the Tacoma ICE detention center., with 35 people exposed. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/955 "2025-08-02T04:54:21Z")
Cue a press conference from Karoline Leavitt where she credits the president with saving the country from a tuberculosis pandemic by locking up and deporting all those infected illegals that had been roaming the streets… ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/956 "2025-08-05T23:39:07Z")
DHS has announced a deal with the State of Indiana to add 1,000 beds for an ICE facility at the Miami Correctional Center which they are dubbing the “Speedway Slammer”. They’re gonna have cute little alliterative nicknames for _all_ of these, aren’t they? > **[The Speedway Slammer: A New Partnership with DHS and the State of Indiana to...](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/05/speedway-slammer-new-partnership-dhs-and-state-indiana-expand-detention-space)** > > WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new partnership with the state of Indiana to expand ICE detention space by 1,000 beds. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is partnering with the Indiana Department of... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/957 "2025-08-05T23:51:25Z")
Cute alliterative names suggest summer camp and not internment camp. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/958 "2025-08-06T03:22:55Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Cute alliterative names suggest summer camp But the merchandising! Think of how many t-shirts and caps they can sell. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/959 "2025-08-06T03:28:48Z")
So ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is OK because it presents as a ‘summer camp’; but ‘Alligator Auschwitz’ is _not_ OK because it trivialises it? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/960 "2025-08-06T03:29:47Z")
They should put together some minor league baseball teams representing the camps. “Today, we’re bringing you an Internment League match featuring the Alcatraz Alligators and the Speedway Slammers! The temperature here in Florida is 110 degrees in the shade with 98% humidity. We’ve got a swarm of mosquitoes in right field, and alligators patrolling the moat outside the stadium. This year so far, we’ve had six splash downs!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=49)