Political Quotes

“for more than 3 months, Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump have used the city of Chicago as their personal playground for militarizing immigration operations. When they announced the start of this campaign, they called it Operation Midway Blitz. They promised to target and deport murderers, rapists, terrorists, the criminally insane, the worst of the worst. The results tell a different story. In an ongoing lawsuit, a judge examined whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated a consent decree preventing warrantless arrests of individuals without probable cause. In a list the administration presented--a list that came from the Department of Homeland Security, came from Secretary Noem--submitted to the Federal court of more than 600 immigrants recently arrested, do you know how many of them had a significant criminal history? Sixteen. Sixteen out of more than 600. Nationwide, ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal history between January 20 and October of this year. Federal immigration agents have arrested and detained the following as examples: a mother on her way to visit her 15-day-old baby in the NICU, a teacher in a preschool in front of her young students, day laborers, vendors, construction workers, and cooks simply trying to work hard, make a living, and support their families.”