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U.S. deportations at highest level since 2014, ICE report shows

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants to nearly 200 countries last fiscal year, the highest tally in a decade, according to the agency’s annual report published Thursday.

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Most deportees had crossed the U.S. southern border illegally, part of a record number of people fleeing authoritarian regimes, poverty and economic collapse in the Western Hemisphere after the pandemic. The ICE report covered enforcement operations from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30.

The report is ICE’s final accounting of immigration enforcement under the Biden administration before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump has promised to immediately launch the largest deportation campaign in American history, though he has offered few or conflicting details about how he would manage it. Staffing levels of immigration enforcement officers have been stagnant for years.


“Our agency is chronically underfunded, but our workforce is adaptable, resilient and agile, and they set the bar high within the federal government,” said ICE’s top official Patrick J. Lechleitner, in a statement. “ICE is an apolitical agency, and one thing I can tell you about our workforce is that they’re here to investigate crimes and enforce the laws Congress sets forth.”
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Biden took office in 2021 pledging to pause deportations, and he sent Congress a bill that would have allowed most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country to get on paths to citizenship. But surging border crossings derailed his plans, and Biden officials ended up expanding rather than reducing detention and deportations.
Illegal border crossings have plunged since Biden implemented new rules last summer that sharply restrict asylum claims, resulting in far more migrants being deported than released into the United States with a pending court case.


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The Washington Post analyzed more than 4.1 million U.S. immigration court records from the past decade to find out where migrants come from and where they live once they arrive in the country.

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Deportations by ICE during Trump’s first term peaked at 267,260 during the 2019 fiscal year, data show. Under Trump, deportees were more likely to be individuals arrested in the interior of the United States, rather than recent border-crossers.
Federal immigration officials said several factors drove the overall increase in Enforcement and Removal Operations during the past year, particularly to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, which accepted more flights transporting those deported from the United States.
“These actions enhanced ERO’s ability to scale up removal operations and laid the groundwork for the increase of removals in FY 2024,” the report said.

ICE also expanded after “intensive diplomatic efforts” the number of charter flights last year to countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including the first large removal flight to China since fiscal 2018.

Five hundred deportees were dispatched to China last year, down slightly from fiscal 2019. Other flights went to Albania, India, Senegal and Uzbekistan.
Records show Biden largely kept his promise to focus on immigrants who are a top priority for removal, including recent border crossers and people who posed a threat to national security or public safety.
Immigration officials typically remove a tiny fraction of the nation’s undocumented immigrants each year, in part because of huge backlogs in U.S. immigration courts, budget constraints and public opposition to removals in many states.

The 2024 report shows that the highest numbers of immigrants removed from the United States went to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, in that order.
Those countries typically cooperate with deportations, and their citizens are likely to be significant targets for removal under the Trump administration.

Venezuela, however, is less cooperative. People from that South American country are among one of the largest groups on ICE’s deportation docket. But last year just 3,256 people were deported.
Trump and his surrogates have provided few details about how they would steer a dramatic expansion in enforcement.
ICE has about 6,000 immigration enforcement officers, roughly the same staffing level that it had a decade ago, the report shows. During that time, the number of people with pending immigration cases on ICE’s docket — individuals who are not detained but under ICE’s management — has nearly quadrupled to about 8 million.

Trump also promised to aggressively increase deportations during his first term, but because of resistance from Democrat-led cities and states, he never surpassed the Obama administration’s record of more than 400,000 removals a year.

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Get ready for Utility rates to skyrocket to a level that sends us back to the stone-age

Democranti-science party strikes again


The Marxist bill was carried by Democrat Senator Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz.
“The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable,” said Senator Krueger.

Gin and Juice Bowl

I’m far from a boomer and get off my lawn type. In fact I think this is dope. But isn’t it weird to have a college bowl game where 65% of the rosters can’t legally drink sponsored with an alcohol in the name? It’s one thing to sell booze at games but I can’t think of an alcohol company ever sponsoring a college game. Even the big ones are “brought to you by Dr Pepper.”

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Amazon & Meta will both contribute $1 Million to President Trump’s inauguration fund

Time to boycott Amazon, Whole Foods, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads & the Washington Post! ;)

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New research shows the massive hole Dems are in.

Even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites.
Democrats conducting post-mortems on their sweeping losses in 2024 are finding more reason for alarm. And the problem isn’t just Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.


In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research.

When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.”


The focus group research, shared first with POLITICO, represents the latest troubling pulse check for a party still sorting through the wreckage of its November losses and looking for a path to rebuild. Without a clear party leader and with losses across nearly every demographic in November,

Democrats are walking into a second Trump presidency without a unified strategy to improve their electoral prospects. And while some Democrats blame Biden, others blame inflation and still others blame “losing hold of culture,” the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats’ problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle.

The focus groups offer “a pretty scathing rebuke” of the Democratic Party brand, said Rachael Russell, director of polling and analytics at Navigator Research, a project within the Hub Project, which is a Democratic nonprofit group.

“This weakness they see, [Democrats] not getting things done, not being able to actually fight for people — is something that needs to be figured out,” Russell said. “It might not be the message, it might be the policy. It might be something a little bit deeper that has to be addressed by the party.”

The focus groups — held immediately after the 2024 election and conducted by GBAO, a Democratic polling firm — featured three kinds of voters: young men in battleground states who voted for Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024; voters in battleground states who voted for Biden in 2020 but didn’t vote at all in 2024; and voters in blue states who had previously voted for Democrats, a third party candidate or didn’t vote in 2020 but voted for Trump in 2024.


“I think what the Democratic elites and their politicians believe is often very different from what the average Democratic voter is,” said a Georgia man who voted for Biden in 2020 but Trump in 2024. “The elites that run the Democratic Party — I think they’re way too obsessed with appealing to these very far-left social progressivism that’s very popular on college campuses.”

These voters voiced cautious optimism about Trump’s second term, both in the focus groups and a post-election poll that found Trump’s highest approval rating since 2020 in a GBAO survey. The national poll, which surveyed 1,000 people, found 47 percent viewed Trump favorably, while 50 percent disapproved of him — the highest marks he’s received since he left office.

Russell argued that Trump’s high marks reflect a “honeymoon” period, which she predicted will fade once he takes office: “Once things start happening, it’s going to take a turn, and so it’s going to rely really heavily on the actions in the first 100 days to see how we go from here.”

She also noted that the polling suggests openings for Democrats on issues like abortion, health care and taxing the rich, as well as a fear that Trump may go too far on tariffs. Their survey also showed that two-thirds of voters said inflation should be the incoming president’s top issue, but only a third of voters believed it was Trump’s or Republicans’ top issue.

When the focus group participants were asked about inflation and tariffs, many of them said they didn’t fully understand the policy, while others acknowledged they expected prices to go up.

“Obviously I wouldn’t want stuff to go up, but at the same time, in the long run, would it be better off for America and maybe having more stuff made here?” said one man from Wisconsin.

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Wrong-way crash kills passenger near Marion

A sport utility vehicle traveling the wrong way on Highway 13 south of Marion on Friday night struck a passenger car and killed one its passengers, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.



A sheriff’s news release said first responders were called at 9:48 p.m. Friday to Highway 13, also called U.S. Highway 151 in the area, near Travis Road. In the northbound lanes there, they found that a 2010 Honda CR-V occupied only by its driver had collided with a 2003 Saturn passenger vehicle, occupied by three people and headed north in the proper lanes.


One of the Saturn’s passengers was ejected in the crash and died, the Sheriff’s Office said. The other two occupants suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and were hospitalized.




The driver of the Honda had to be mechanically extricated from the SUV and was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the Sheriff’s Office said.


The names of those involved have not been released and the Sheriff’s Office did not say what investigators believe led to a driver going the wrong way on the highway.


The Sheriff’s Office said a third vehicle, a 2024 Subaru, became involved in the crash but its occupants were not injured.


The northbound lanes in the area were closed for about four hours because of the crash, which remains under investigation.

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