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Miami Herald: DHS Uses Terms ‘Alien’ and ‘Illegal’ Despite Backlash

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“The message that ICE is sending to immigrants and their communities by changing the phrasing is that they are going to treat such persons not as human beings but as criminals.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has maintained its use of the term “alien” when referring to noncitizens, pointing to statutory requirements. The decision has sparked backlash over the Trump administration’s language regarding immigration policy, with critics claiming that such terminology dehumanizes individuals. DHS officials have defended the usage as consistent with existing laws. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidance directs staff to use “alien” and “alienage,” replacing Biden-era “noncitizen” terminology.

DHS stated, “‘Undocumented immigrant’ is the immigration equivalent of ‘they/them.’ DHS has no interest in the left’s open borders pronouns. ‘Alien’ is the technical legal term, and that is what DHS will use.”

DHS added, “‘Illegal’ is the only way to correctly describe lawbreakers. Next thing you know you will be calling burglars ‘undocumented houseguests.’ ‘Alien’ is the technical legal term, and that is what DHS will use.”

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) updated its policy manual to match the terminology, reflecting statutes that use “aliens” for admissibility, deportation, crimes, and public benefits eligibility.

Critics said the change stigmatizes immigrants and hints at harsher treatment, while supporters have argued it aligns with U.S. Code and clarifies program language. Immigration advocates have continued advocating for “noncitizen” or “undocumented” terminology, despite the changes.

Immigration Lawyer Hector Díaz said, “The message that ICE is sending to immigrants and their communities by changing the phrasing is that they are going to treat such persons not as human beings but as criminals.”

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Washington Examiner: Border czar says ICE ops will ramp up after Labor Day

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Border czar Tom Homan told reporters that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations will expand after Labor Day in sanctuary cities nationwide, including Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore.

“You’re going to see a ramp up of operations in New York. You’re going to see a ramp up of operations continue in L.A. and, you know, Portland, Seattle,” Homan told reporters gathered near the White House. “I mean, all these sanctuary cities refuse to work with ICE … we’re going to address that.”

Homan said some other states are complying and working with ICE.

“We don’t have that problem in Texas and Florida, where all the sheriffs are working with us and they’re actually holding people for us and letting us know when someone’s being released,” he said. “So, we’re going to take the assets we have and move them to problem areas like sanctuary cities, where we know for a fact they’re releasing public safety threat illegal aliens to the streets every day. That’s where we need to send the majority of the resources, and that’s where they’re going.”

Homan was in Portland on Aug. 21 to meet with ICE personnel. After the visit, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson reaffirmed the city’s sanctuary status and said city employees, including police officers, will not assist in ICE operations.

“I was in San Diego and Portland in the last week meeting with the men and women of ICE to understand the hate that’s being pushed against them and letting them know the President has their six,” Homan said. “I have their six.”

The Center Square contacted Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office on Friday for comment on what the nation’s border czar had to say.

“Seattle will not be intimidated by the Trump administration’s threats. Suggesting that federal immigration raids or deployments of federal agents could soon target our city is not about public safety – it’s about political theater and an overreach of federal authority,” said Harrell in a statement emailed to The Center Square. “Seattle is a welcoming city, and our policies comply with both federal and state law. Immigration enforcement is the federal government’s responsibility, not the city’s, and we will not allow our police resources to be commandeered for political purposes.

“We are already working closely with Gov. [Bob] Ferguson and Attorney General [Nick] Brown, and have asked the City Attorney’s Office to review every legal option available to protect our residents. We have successfully taken this administration to court before … over its attempts to punish sanctuary cities, and we are prepared to do so again. We will stand firm, protect our communities, and preserve local control over our public safety resources. Seattle’s values are not up for negotiation.”

Homan said enforcement operations across the country are improving public safety for Americans.

“I look at the numbers every morning,” he said. “There’s about 22 pages of data; 70% of everybody arrested is a criminal,” he said. “But the left says, ‘Well, not criminal enough. It’s just a DUI.’ DUIs kill over 10,000 people a year. That’s a public safety threat. I don’t care what anybody thinks.”

As for the other 30% of arrestees, Homan explained, “We arrested thousands of national security threats. Many of them don’t have a criminal history because their whole goal is to lay low ‘til they do their dirty deed. Gang members. A lot of gang members don’t have a criminal history.”

He concluded, “And finally, final deportation orders. People who had due process at great taxpayer expense. They were ordered removed by a federal judge, and they didn’t leave. And we’re looking for them, too, because we’re sending a message to the whole world. It’s not okay to enter this country illegally. It’s a crime.”

Bring it on, asshole! You haven’t yet see the poll numbers bottom out!

Border czar says ICE ops will ramp up after Labor Day
Homan told reporters gathered near the White House. “All these sanctuary cities refuse to work with ICE … we’re going to address that.”
Border czar says ICE ops will ramp up after Labor Day

L.A. Times: Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says

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  • Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on the government to halt the deportation plans.
  • The removals would violate the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s long-established practice of protecting such children, Wyden said.

The Trump administration is planning to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who had come to the U.S. without their parents, according to a letter sent Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, and the Central American country said it was ready to take them in.

The removals would violate the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s “child welfare mandate and this country’s long-established obligation to these children,” Wyden told Angie Salazar, acting director of the office within the Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for migrant children who arrive in the U.S. alone.

“This move threatens to separate children from their families, lawyers, and support systems, to thrust them back into the very conditions they are seeking refuge from, and to disappear vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight,” the Democratic senator wrote, asking for the deportation plans to be terminated.

It is another step in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement efforts, which include plans to surge officers to Chicago for an immigration crackdown, ramping up deportations and ending protections for people who have had permission to live and work in the United States.

Guatemalan Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Martínez said Friday that the government has told the U.S. it is willing to receive hundreds of Guatemalan minors who arrived unaccompanied to the United States and are being held in U.S. facilities.

Guatemala is particularly concerned about minors who could age out of the facilities for children and be sent to adult detention centers, he said. The exact number of children to be returned remains in flux, but they are currently discussing a little over 600. He said no date has been set yet for their return.

That would be almost double what Guatemala previously agreed to. The head of the country’s immigration service said last month that the government was looking to repatriate 341 unaccompanied minors who were being held in U.S. facilities.

“The idea is to bring them back before they reach 18 years old so that they are not taken to an adult detention center,” Guatemala Immigration Institute Director Danilo Rivera said at the time. He said it would be done at Guatemala’s expense and would be a form of voluntary return.

The plan was announced by President Bernardo Arévalo, who said then that the government had a moral and legal obligation to advocate for the children. His comments came days after U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited Guatemala.

The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the latest move, which was first reported by CNN.

Quoting unidentified whistleblowers, Wyden’s letter said children who do not have a parent or legal guardian as a sponsor or who don’t have an asylum case already underway “will be forcibly removed from the country.”

The idea of repatriating such a large number of children to their home country also raised concerns with activists who work with children navigating the immigration process.

“We are outraged by the Trump administration’s renewed assault on the rights of immigrant children,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, president and CEO of Immigrant Defenders Law Center. “We are not fooled by their attempt to mask these efforts as mere ‘repatriations.’ This is yet another calculated attempt to sever what little due process remains in the immigration system.”

Santana, Seitz and Gonzalez write for the Associated Press. Gonzalez reported from McAllen, Texas. AP writers Sonia Pérez D. in Guatemala City and Tim Sullivan in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

They already tried.

Judge already said “nyet”.

One airborne plane was even forced to return & unload the kids.

Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says
The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-29/trump-administration-plans-to-remove-nearly-700-unaccompanied-migrant-children-senator-says

CBS News: Feds charge man who burned U.S. flag outside White House in protest of Trump’s executive order

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Federal prosecutors in D.C. filed criminal charges against a man who burned an American flag outside of the White House earlier this week, after President Trump signed an executive order ordering the Justice Department to investigate flag burning.

Jan Carey, 54, of North Carolina, is facing two misdemeanor criminal counts in Washington, D.C., federal court. Neither charge focuses on the fact that he burned a flag, specifically: one of the counts was for lighting a fire “not in a designated area and receptacle,” and another was for lighting a fire “in a manner that threatened, caused damage to, and resulted in the burning of property, real property, and park resources.”

Both charges are punishable by a fine or no more than six months in custody.

In a video of the flag burning captured by WUSA9 on Monday, Carey identified himself as a military veteran and said he was protesting the executive order.

In an interview with WUSA9, Carey said he “immediately thought I need to go burn a flag in front of the White House and let’s put this to the test.”

On Monday, Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to investigate people who burn the American flag, even though the Supreme Court in 1989 ruled that the First Amendment protected symbolic speech, including flag burning. 

Mr. Trump’s order attempts to navigate around the Supreme Court ruling. It said federal prosecutors should prioritize bringing cases against instances of flag burning that violate other “content-neutral laws,” and said the high court didn’t rule out charges if burning a flag “is likely to incite imminent lawless action” or amounts to “fighting words.”

The president has long pushed for criminal prosecutions for burning an American flag, suggesting in 2016 that it should be punished by “loss of citizenship or year in jail.” 

“You burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don’t get 10 years, you don’t get one month,” Mr. Trump said Monday. “You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record, and you will see flag burning stopping immediately.”

Mr. Trump’s order also calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to litigate a challenge to the 1989 ruling, potentially getting the issue in front of a Supreme Court bench that is far more conservative than the high court was at the time of the original decision. And it suggests alleged flag burners could be charged with inciting a riot.

Carey, however, was not charged with incitement.

Yet another lawsuit that needs to be filed against Trump’s idiot bitch Pam “Bimbo #3” Bondi. Burning the flag in protest — just like flipping the finger at government authority figures — is well established as protected free speech under the First Amendment.

Feds charge man who burned U.S. flag outside White House in protest of Trump’s executive order
Federal prosecutors in D.C. filed charges against a veteran who burned an American flag outside the White House, after President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate flag burning.

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Slingshot News: ‘He Does Not Support Amnesty’: Karoline Leavitt Flaunts Trump’s Mass Deportations During Out-Of-Touch Remarks In Press Briefing

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‘He Does Not Support Amnesty’: Karoline Leavitt Flaunts Trump’s Mass Deportations During Out-Of-Touch Remarks In Press Briefing
During a White House press briefing in July, press secretary Karoline Leavitt flaunted President Trump’s mass deportations. Leavitt stated, “He does not support amnesty.”

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Alternet: Donald Trump is doomed — and he knows it | Opinion

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The neofascist takeover of America — of our cities, universities, media, law firms, museums, civil service, and public prosecutors who tried to hold Trump and Trump’s vigilantes accountable to the law — worsens by the day.

As I’ve traveled across the country peddling my book, trying to explain how this catastrophe happened and what we can do about it, I’ve found many Americans in shock and outrage.

“How could it have happened so fast?” they ask. I explain that it actually occurred slowly and incrementally over many years until our entire political-economic system became so fragile that a sociopathic demagogue could bring much of it down.

Some people I speak with are still in denial and disbelief. “It’s not as bad as the press makes it out to be,” they say. I tell them that it is — even worse.

Others are in despair — heartbroken and immobilized. “Nothing can be done,” they say. I tell them that hopelessness plays into the hands of Trump and his lackeys who want us to think that the game is over and they’ve won. But we can’t let them. The stakes are too high. Hopelessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Rest assured. The seeds of Trump’s destruction have already been sown. He will overreach. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of birthright citizenship, for example, and Trump announces he’s not bound by the Supreme Court, the uproar will be deafening.

Or the economy will bite him in the butt. As prices continue to rise and job growth continues to slow — due to Trump’s bonkers import taxes (tariffs), his attempt to take over the Fed, and his attacks on immigrants — America will fall into the dread trap of “stagflation”: stagnation and inflation. After months of this, his base is likely to turn on him — remember, many voted for him because he promised to bring prices down — and he and his Republican lackeys in Congress will be toast in the 2026 midterms.

Or his brazen corruption will do him in (he’s personally raking in hundreds of millions from crypto, for example). Or Putin will do him in (if Ukraine falls to Russia or an emboldened Russia strikes Lithuania). Or the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

He no longer has any truth-tellers to advise him — he has purged all of them. And a president who’s flying blind, without anyone around him to tell him he’s about to crash, will inevitably crash. Many innocent people will likely suffer “collateral” damage. But at least the nation will see him for who he is and consign him to the dustbin of history.

None of this argues for complacency. We must continue to fight — demonstrate, phone your representatives and senators, boycott corporations and organizations that are caving in to tyranny, protect the vulnerable, make good trouble.

But please do not fall into denial or despair, and don’t let anyone else.

Donald Trump is doomed — and he knows it | Opinion

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Slingshot News: ‘Watch This’: When Donald Trump Forced His Rally-Goers To Watch An Anti-Immigrant Propaganda Video In Michigan

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‘Watch This’: When Donald Trump Forced His Rally-Goers To Watch An Anti-Immigrant Propaganda Video In Michigan
President Donald Trump forced his rally-goers and supporters in Michigan to watch an anti-immigrant propaganda video in the middle of his speech. This event happened earlier this year.

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Daily Caller: Pam Bondi Fires DOJ Employee Who Flipped Off National Guard Soldiers

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Attorney General Pam Bondi terminated a Department of Justice paralegal Friday after the employee repeatedly made obscene gestures and cursed at National Guard members stationed in Washington, D.C., Fox News reported.

Elizabeth Baxter, who worked in the department’s environmental division, lost her position following an investigation into multiple incidents that occurred this month at the DOJ’s 4CON building in the NoMa district, according to Fox News. Security footage captured Baxter arriving at work on Aug. 18 just after 8:20 a.m., where she bragged to a security guard about flipping off a guardsman at Metro Center Metro Stop.

“F–k the National Guard,” she told the guard, the New York Post reported. Later that day, cameras recorded her demonstrating the gesture to department security personnel while exclaiming “F–k you!” The behavior continued on Aug. 25 when Baxter again boasted to security staff that she hated the National Guard and had told them to “F–k off!”

“Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC,” Bondi said, the outlet reported. “This DOJ remains committed to defending President Trump’s agenda and fighting to make America safe again. If you oppose our mission and disrespect law enforcement — you will NO LONGER work at DOJ.”

Bondi’s termination letter removed Baxter from her GS-11 Paralegal Specialist position effective immediately, according to the outlet. The firing follows the termination of Sean Charles Dunn, another DOJ paralegal who allegedly threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent earlier this month. Dunn faces misdemeanor charges that could result in up to one year in jail. (RELATED: Pam Bondi Reveals Guy Who Allegedly Threw Subway Sub At Officer Worked For DOJ — He’s Now Out Of A Job)

The Trump administration recently deployed hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington’s streets as part of efforts to reduce crime in the district.

Let’s hope Elizabeth Baxter files a lawsuit! Flipping the finger at government authority figures is a well-established right under the First Amendment. Not that Pam “Bimbo #3” Bondi particularly cares about either the law nor the Constitution.

Pam Bondi Fires DOJ Employee Who Flipped Off National Guard Soldiers
Pam Bondi terminated a DOJ paralegal Friday after the employee repeatedly made obscene gestures and cursed at National Guard members, Fox News reported.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/30/pam-bondi-doj-national-guard-soldiers-washington

MSNBC: ‘Would not bother me at all’: Trump considers televised arrest of ‘Russiagate’ foes

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‘Would not bother me at all’: Trump considers televised arrest of ‘Russiagate’ foes
In an exclusive new interview with the Daily Caller, Trump was asked whether he’d be comfortable seeing former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan arrested live on television as part of his administration’s new focus on the Russia election interference investigation. His response? “Would not bother me at all.” Plus, Trump continues to push experts out of government agencies in favor of MAGA loyalists, and Trump is ramping up his threats against Boston and Chicago.

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Slingshot News: ‘Eliminated It’: When Donald Trump Boasted About Firing Millions Of Americans From The Department of Education At His Michigan Rally

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‘Eliminated It’: When Donald Trump Boasted About Firing Millions Of Americans From The Department of Education At His Michigan Rally
President Donald Trump boasted about firing millions of Americans from the Department of Education during a Michigan rally earlier this year.

Fired millions? Just another fib from America’s greatest liar. The Dept. of Education only had about 4,000 employees to start with.

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