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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's active ruin of the economy continues [1]
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Date: 2025-04-14
CNBC:
Keep an eye on the bond market today and this week. It was fragile last week.
Will Bunch/Philadelphia Inquirer:
When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.
In a just and decent America, the law enforcement career of Charles Cross Jr. would have ended more than a decade ago. A Milwaukee police sergeant, Cross was briefly fired from the force in 2007 after kicking down his girlfriend’s door and convicted of misdemeanor property damage, but top brass gave him a second chance after he underwent treatment for alcoholism and depression.
This did not go well. The lawman was also on a so-called Brady list of city police officers whom prosecutors found to have credibility issues. In 2012, Cross’ Milwaukee career ended after he plowed into a home with his car, intoxicated at double the legal limit, and he also came under investigation for phony overtime claims.
But America’s rapidly expanding archipelago of gulags for detained immigrants provided yet another chance for a disgraced ex-cop with a history of poor judgment and dishonesty. Now 62, Cross, according to a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has found work in California with CoreCivic, a private contractor in the lucrative business of running detention centers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
It turns out it was Cross, under the title “INVESTIGATOR,” who’d recently signed papers claiming that a gay Venezuelan makeup artist named Andry José Hernandez Romero was likely a member of the gang Tren de Aragua, based upon his tattoos. It’s a claim that lawyers and family members of the 31-year-old Hernandez Romero, who was seeking U.S. refuge from Venezuela’s repressive regime, have ridiculed — insisting the tattoo is three kings paying homage to Jesus. But that didn’t prevent ICE from shipping Hernandez Romero, without due process, to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador where it’s not clear if or how he can be released.
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