Trump's ICE detained "a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people..."

[Miles Archer]

Trump’s ICE detained a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people during the first seven months of his second term, new government data reveals.

The figures—analyzed by PunchUp, the Daily Beast’s investigations Substack publication—are drawn from 505,000 ICE I-213 arrest forms released by The Guardian last Friday following litigation by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Trump, 79, had repeatedly promised his second-term immigration crackdown would target “the worst of the worst.” Instead, PunchUp‘s analysis shows agents hauled in 21 cancer patients, seven organ transplant recipients, at least 24 disabled people—including the blind, deaf, and paralyzed—and 130 pregnant women between January and July last year.

Last week, PunchUp revealed that the same dataset showed ICE doubled its daily arrest rate the second Trump took the oath of office. Now PunchUp can show how that surge in arrests led to vulnerable groups being targeted.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-ice-goons-targeted-pregnant-women-and-cancer-patients/

[Solly Mack]

1. The worst of the worst.

Snort.

[Biophilic]

2. I certainly feel much safer now. Cruelty is the point.

[Tbear]

3. Tough guys those Icers.

Fucking assholes top to bottom.

[underpants]

4. It's just a body count. ICE really doesn't care who it is or how it turns out

They just need the daily count.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Modern fascist Volksgemeinschaft

[Walleye]

6. Jeffrey Goldberg called the Jolene doctrine. Just because he can.

They are delighted every chance they get to mistreat women and infirmed.

[70sEraVet]

16. Wow! I had to look up the Jolene Doctrine.

Very clever , and REVEALING!
Here's a video of the interview where General McChrystal makes that analogy.

https://m.

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The Jolene part begins around 23:30 -- but I found the entire interview to be worthwhile.

[republianmushroom]

7. trumps private SS GESTAPO in action.

[malaise]

8. Velshi discussing this now

Rec

[Johnny2X2X]

9. The bonus system.

ICE gets bonuses for arresting people. A lot easier to locate and arrest gravely ill immigrants than it is criminals. In fact, I’d bet most of the actual dangerous criminals are being left alone unless they get arrested for something else.

[1WorldHope]

10. Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition.

America should be a lesson for the ages. People who worship money are dangerous. Never put a sociopath at the top of the government or any position where they can hurt people or animals.

[ChicagoTeamster]

11. They also left disabled people to die in the cold after finding they couldn't deport them.

[mgardener]

12. Does not surprise me.

In his mind, he is saving money on health care and preventing US citizenship for all those babies!

[angrychair]

14. Want to know the difference between Democrats and Republicans?

Democrats seeing these numbers are horrified.

Republicans seeing these numbers feel a great sense of accomplishment.

[IbogaProject]

15. Just think of all that contracting profit ______________/s

I know this is bad economically as it will shrink our total economic consumption before we consider the missallocation of money by giving those contractor dollars to parties with lower income multipliers compared to the captured.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

17. Article Has a paywall