A US citizen in Minnesota was temporarily detained by Border Patrol agents who questioned his citizenship because of his accent, raising concerns about profiling and enforcement practices amid broader federal immigration operations.
In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
Edit: It’s important to note that the reason that things are getting so brutal, why they’re grabbing up citizens, not believing IDs, etc. is because this quota is impossible on a good day, and really really impossible when there are protesters interfering with their pesky 1st Amendment Rights.
Could we get three thousand lily-white rich people to volunteer to get arrested and released every day so ICE can leave everybody else alone for a minute?
Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests
Edit: It’s important to note that the reason that things are getting so brutal, why they’re grabbing up citizens, not believing IDs, etc. is because this quota is impossible on a good day, and really really impossible when there are protesters interfering with their pesky 1st Amendment Rights.
Thanks. I didn’t see that.
Could we get three thousand lily-white rich people to volunteer to get arrested and released every day so ICE can leave everybody else alone for a minute?