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4:45Now PlayingAccording to multiple reports this week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller has been raging behind the scenes over the low arrest numbers for undocumented immigrants. While most of the media has been focused on talking about how Miller wants MORE immigration raids, they are missing a very basic fact – Republicans have been lying for years about the real number of people coming into the country, and that’s why the arrest numbers are so low. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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Mass deportations and the assault on undocumented people here in the United States has become the hallmark of the Trump administration. You know, aside from tariffs, obviously, but attacking immigrants is what got Donald Trump onto the national stage way back in the day when he first ran for office. And he has not relented Now, unfortunately, for the Trump administration, they haven't been able to round up as many people as they thought they would. And the deportations are not going as planned. They're not having as many arrests as they wanted. I mean, you know, they were gonna build all these big beautiful detention centers and they haven't been able to do that 'cause they don't have the people to, you know, put in there. And Stephen Miller top Trump aid and ob uh, you know, arguably one of the more xenophobic, possibly bordering on racist people of the Trump administration has been raging behind the scenes according to multiple reports this week about how low these deportation numbers are.
He's mad about it. Why are we not arresting more people? Why don't we have more detainees? The administration has already allocated thousands of more government law enforcement officials to rounding up immigrants to the point where they're actually not doing their regular jobs of going after normal American born criminals. So those people are getting off the hook. But meanwhile, we got 5,000 more agents from DHS, the FBI, the DOJ, that are now supposed to be rounding up immigrants. And by God, Stephen Miller wants to know what the hell arrest more people. While the media has mostly focused, of course, on the ramped up, uh, immigrant roundup, uh, uh, uh, of the administration, you know, allocation of more resources and whatnot, I wanna present a different thing. It doesn't matter how many more people the federal government moves over into the immigration and enforcement arena. You know, they, they've already moved 5,000. They may be moving more, but you could move 50,000. You could move a hundred thousand people over and your numbers aren't gonna change for a very specific reason. And it's a reason that destroys years of a Republican talking point. And it's this, you can put an extra 5,000, 10,000, 50,000 people out there to go round up immigrants, but at the end of the day, these people will just be chasing ghosts. Your mad Stephen Miller, because your officials are not able to fix a problem that never actually existed. You, Steven Miller, fell victim to that very
Republican talking point that you are now effectively debunking. And here it is. We have been hearing from Republicans for years. We had 20 million people cross the border last year. We had 3 million this month. We've got tens of millions a year. They tell us illegally crossing the border and just living here in the United States. If that were true, we would see higher arrest numbers because it's not for a lack of trying, okay? It's not that, oh, well, we just don't have people out there doing it, which is what they said during the Biden years. Now you've got the people, you've got National Guard out there protecting the border, and the numbers haven't changed. Hmm. You've got thousands more agents out there. You've got local law enforcement in some areas of the country helping you, and yet the arrest numbers aren't going up. It's almost as if this 20, 40 million people don't actually exist because they're looking for 'em. They just can't find them, and they can't find them because this administration is out there chasing ghosts. They fell victim to their own talking point that there was an invasion, and now they're off that they're not able to arrest people because that invasion never actually happened.
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