# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 63
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1241 "2026-10-10T12:06:33Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Update on the ICE operations in southwestern Kansas. Those ICE operations lasted about 3 days in late September. The final tally, according to official reports, was 104 arrests, including five ‘dangerous criminals’ with long rap sheets. Markwayne Mullin highlighted those five on a long post on [X.](https://x.com/SecMullinDHS/status/2103598606955778237) These folks were legitimate Bad People. Problem is, however, that all of them were already in custody earlier this year, according to a [story](https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/ice-arrested-more-than-100-in-southwest-kansas-feds-say/) by a Wichita news station. > The news release highlighted five of those it said were arrested, but KSN’s research indicates that all of them were in federal custody earlier this year. > > KSN reached out to ICE and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for confirmation on when the suspects were arrested. In its response, the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not say when the when the arrests happened. > > “In my statement I only include information about the specific defendants that DHS officials have already made public,” U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser said. “Any additional information about those defendants or others detained must come from that agency.” > > ICE has not responded to KSN’s inquiry. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1242 "2026-10-10T12:24:18Z")
[Markwayne Mullin held a press conference](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/09/dhs-mullin-new-york-ice-shooting-01113885) the other day, defending the ICE shooting of a man in New York, saying they didn’t know a five-year-old child was in the car. Mullin’s attitude was extremely aggressive, claiming that ICE is going after the “worst of the worst.” The problem with that is that only a tiny fraction of those being arrested by ICE have any criminal history. Many are just ordinary people who have committed the civil offense of overstaying a visa. (Note that some of the “worst of the worst” are native-born Americans not subject to deportation.) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1243 "2026-10-10T14:18:23Z")
Their defense is that they were shooting into a car with no idea who was in there? For some reason, I don’t find that reassuring. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1244 "2026-10-12T16:38:07Z")
From ICE training manual: - READY FIRE AIM! - Shoot first, ask questions later. - When in doubt, empty the magazine. - Spray and pray. - Precision is just a fancy word for missing slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1245 "2026-10-26T09:52:20Z")
In which a small town cop tries to convince himself he’s actually a decent guy, even while he accepts pieces of silver to deport people and rip apart their families. > **[The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors](https://www.propublica.org/article/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander)** > > Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1246 "2026-10-26T12:53:48Z")
I saw that article in the New York Times, where it was the cover story in the Sunday Magazine section. Trump claims to be deporting the “worst of the worst” but as this article shows, most of the ones being removed are just people who committed the civil offense of being undocumented. Is his town seeing citizens and permanent residents rushing in to do the jobs formerly done by the now deported? Are we better off now that we’re spending roughly $250 billion on this program? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1247 "2026-10-26T13:02:51Z")
AIUI, it’s not _most_, it’s _almost all_. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1248 "2026-10-26T13:05:09Z")
I forgot about this thread, and posted in The BBQ Pit about a woman in Point Roberts who died after she was so terrified by immigration authorities. > [@How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6271): > > You can’t get to [Point Roberts](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Point+Roberts,+WA/@48.9686478,-123.0315288,31004m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x5485e5ffff02c5fd:0x2b6ed49177b716a!8m2!3d48.9883827!4d-123.0568693!16zL20vMDFkNG5f?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MTAyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) from here. Not without going through Canada. Tl;dr: A Canadian longtime legal permanent resident of Point Roberts, WA was detained for hours at the birder, as she was returning to her home after her 61st birthday dinner. The ordeal left her frightened of crossing the border again. She told her immigration lawyer that she was not feeling well, and needed to see a doctor; But she was too afraid to cross through Canada to do it. [CBC reports](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paige-adamson-death-fear-immigration-deportation-9.7392450) that she slipped in h… ---
**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:** [October 26, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1249 "2026-10-26T13:07:38Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > AIUI, it’s not _most_, it’s _almost all_. Of course. And many of the “worst of the worst” are US citizens but we’re not even going after them. We’re devoting more resources to deportations than we are to the FBI, Secret Service or other domestic security. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1250 "2026-10-26T13:28:06Z")
> During Obama’s later years, ICE increasingly concentrated interior enforcement on people with criminal convictions. In FY 2016, 92 percent of ICE interior removals involved people previously convicted of a crime, according to ICE. > [Obama and Trump Deportation Numbers Require Careful Comparison - Texas Border Business](https://texasborderbusiness.com/obama-and-trump-deportation-numbers-require-careful-comparison/) > Just 20 percent of all deportations in this period involved individuals with a criminal conviction. Of deportations of immigrants with two or more years of U.S. residence, a majority (71 percent) were of people who did not have a criminal conviction. > [https://www.migrationpolicy.org/publication/us-deportations-second-trump](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/publication/us-deportations-second-trump) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/1251 "2026-10-27T21:41:16Z")
The second link is from 18 months into Trump’s 2nd term. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=62)