#ice-deportations

#ice-deportations

Under Trump's second term, these arrests have increased as he's overseen the boost in ICE's deportation numbers through an increase in immigration raids nationwide. Many people swept up in the raids have been later revealed to have been wrongfully arrested, detained and deported by ICE. The individuals are US citizens with correct visas or valid asylum claims. Furthermore, up to three-quarters of detainees this fiscal year have no criminal history, according to the Cato Institute.

The White House's official TikTok is stirring controversy again. After using Wicked's "Defying Gravity" to celebrate the detention of people by ICE, it has now used Sabrina Carpenter's "Juno", which is about sex, in a bid to further promote ICE's work. Captioned, "Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye", the 14-second clip shows people being pursued by ICE officers and handcuffed, while the lyric, "have you ever tried this one? repeats three times.

➡️ Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) is being targeted by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth because it changed its name to be more inclusive of all genders. Our reporter Ryan Adamczeski got the organization's response. Plus, The 19th News reports on the complex history of LGBTQ+ immigrants in America, and a Democrat running for office in Illinois had a very sparkly reply to a Christian group's anti-transgender survey.

The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to their attorney, he said, the officers refused and straitjacketed the already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits called the WRAP, then loaded them onto a plane.