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TRUMP’S SYSTEM FUNCTIONING WITH DEADLY DISDAIN [1]
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Date: 2025-06-27
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The Trump administration has unleashed a campaign of mass deportation, creating a profound human rights crisis shrouded in the rhetoric of law and order (Ludwig). But beneath the surface of policy, reality emerges. "ICE is arresting enormous numbers of immigrants who have no criminal history" (Cato Institute). Indeed, by early June 2025, ICE was arresting nearly 3,800 non-criminals weekly on the streets, a staggering 1,100 percent increase from 2017 (Cato Institute). This escalation is not a clean, bureaucratic process; it is a violent descent into chaos. Wearing ski masks and baseball caps, federal agents in bulletproof vests swarm public spaces, their identities concealed (Moses). One observer recounted the terror of a family separated in a courthouse hallway, where a wife turned and asked, "Are they going to kill him?" (Moses). This theater of disappearance extends even to children. In a Los Angeles court, agents detained a family seeking asylum; their six-year-old boy, diagnosed with leukemia, was so terrified when an agent revealed a gun that "He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing" (TPR.org). The cruelty follows them into detention. "Marie had been complaining about chest pain for hours,” but after being given pills and told to lie down, "Marie never woke up" (Ludwig). Her death is not an anomaly. As the administration scrambles to expand detention capacity with facilities like the new "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades, it simultaneously dismantles oversight; it shut down three civil rights offices at DHS, with a spokesperson explaining they "often function as internal adversaries that slow down operations" (Ludwig). The system is not broken; it is functioning as designed.
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Ainsley, Julia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/promise-remove-worst-worst-ice-arrested-only-6-known-immigrant-murdere-rcna214817
Cato Institute.
https://www.cato.org/blog/ice-arresting-1100-percent-more-noncriminals-streets-2017 • "ICE’s deportation campaign is not focused on public safety. ICE agents told the conservative New York Post, 'All that matters is numbers, pure numbers. Quantity over quality'" (Cato Institute).
Ludwig, Mike.
https://truthout.org/articles/3-people-die-in-ice-custody-in-april-as-conditions-worsen-in-immigration-jails/ • "Multiple studies by physicians and human rights groups have shown that dozens of people have died preventable deaths in jails and prisons run by ICE and its contractors in the past, and advocates say conditions are rapidly deteriorating as the Trump administration packs facilities as part of his war on immigrants" (Ludwig).
Moses, Dean.
https://www.amny.com/police-fire/more-immigrants-arrested-ice-lower-manhattan-06262025/ • "In every case that we witnessed today...the judges had granted them hearings... Nonetheless, in the hallway, on her way out of the courtroom ICE agents detained her" (Moses).
Schneid, Rebecca.
https://time.com/7297505/florida-alligator-alcatraz-migrant-detention-center/
TPR.org.
https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-25/ice-arrested-a-6-year-old-boy-with-leukemia-at-immigration-court-his-family-is-suing
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