Deportation Detente: Conflicting Claims, Clashing Numbers, and a Policy Mess
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Hey, deportation detente. I don’t know. Again, I have my sources and doing the best I possibly can. Supposedly Trump had a meeting, two hour meeting with Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who’s Kristi Noem’s boyfriend and used to be heavily involved with Trump. Bovino, was he removed? Was he not removed? All sorts of information going on.
All I know is, that a lot of anger, a lot of anger by certain influencers out there, MAGA influencers saying that all is lost. Trump’s walking back and, you know, forget about it now. You know, the country is going to fall into some sort of abyss. If he does this. Everybody’s saying I voted for 100 percent, get everybody out. OK, OK.
Again, that’s part of the problem we have today said the extremes on both sides, which we’ve talked about here. I’m going to go over some of the numbers. Okay, and some of the things that are being told and you don’t know who to believe. You don’t know who to believe the administration saying one thing state of Minnesota is saying something else. But the numbers here as far as
what Minnesota’s saying they’re doing.
Trump administration and his Department of Homeland Security, they insist that the immigration laws in Minnesota are going on enforced. And it’s about this idea that Minnesota is releasing violent, criminal, illegal aliens from state custody. And the state of Minnesota is saying that no, the facts, this is completely not.
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true. They’re saying that the state of Minnesota will say to Minnesota says that the administration says that the Minnesota jails released the worst of the worst. In reality, the Minnesota Department of Corrections honors all federal and local detainers by notifying ICE when a person committed to its custody isn’t a US citizen. There is not a single documented case of the departments releasing someone from state prison without offering to ensure
a smooth transfer of custody. there’s again, they’re continuing to say the administration is lying in this situation. ICE tweeted that the rural Cottonwood County had refused to honor a detainer for an illegal alleged child sex predator. That’s not true. The county sheriff followed procedure contacted ICE when the subject posted bail, but ICE agents were too busy wrecking havoc.
and the Twin Cities to do their actual job and pick the prisoner up. His claims, they said this is ridiculous too, the administration claims that 1,360 non-US citizens are in Minnesota prisons. The truth, they’re saying our total state prison population is roughly 8,000 and only 207 of them are non-citizens.
The administration published what it claimed was a list of people who have been arrested as part of this ICE sweep, asserting that the list represents the worst of the worst criminals and implying that we have been protecting them from capture. Minnesota Public Radio investigated this claim and found it to be completely false. Most of the people on the list had been immediately transferred to ICE custody at the end of the time served in Minnesota prisons.
All of those transfers happened before ICE began its surge of operations in Minnesota on December 1st of this past year, with some even happening years before. ICE has taken credit for arrests that the state and local law enforcement made, activity that took place before this assault on our state even began. That’s just some of the information that’s coming out of the state of Minnesota. Again,
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I don’t know, believe me, everybody seems like they’re fooled at this point in time. Both the administration, states could be right. Could be right. And again, you can’t even trust the media to really investigate this because we’ve got media that takes a side.
takes a side. do the best I possibly can here, but again, I don’t have the resources that they have. Supposedly Trump and Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, again, this is the detente, had a phone call, which they both described as constructive.
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I think it I think it would be best for the state of Minnesota to do what they can and actually work with ice. They asked for something. Do it. OK, I think that that’s probably the best way to go. Again, I don’t think that there are any good guys in this scenario. Got two deaths already and.
Who Minnesota good guy? I don’t know ministration. No, I don’t think sign on either. I they’re both. To blame again who the biggest losers would I tell you all the time we are always the biggest losers when it comes to these things. Do I think that the feds are doing this the wrong way? Yeah, I’ve made that perfectly clear. There’s there’s no logic or reason you you I get to have anybody out there explain to me why it’s necessary to basically look like you are invading the state.
Like you are an invading army. It looks like the movie that I watched back in the 1980s, what was it? Red Dawn? Wolverines! It the Russians and the invaded, the Midwest there and all the kids took to the hills there, Red Dawn. So it looks like the state has been invaded. And if I was trying to capture illegals,
I wouldn’t be doing it differently. I wouldn’t want to be seen and marching in the middle of the streets. Doesn’t seem too smart to me. But anyway, neither here nor there. This is the Wall Street Journal’s look, okay, at the numbers, deportation policy. And again, they’re very difficult to come across. I’m using everything I possibly can to try and get the actual numbers here and even the Wall Street Journal admits.
Very hard to come by. Again, deporting the worst of the worst. The public is overwhelmingly behind that. Kristi Noem posted on social media last week that they arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children, and reigning terror in Minneapolis. She says that
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ICE has removed murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists. That’s quote. She told CBS that 70 % of them have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes. Now, at the beginning of 2025, 87 % of ICE arrests were immigrants with either a prior conviction or a criminal charge pending. This is ICE data.
13 % of those arrested at the beginning of 2025 didn’t have either a conviction or a pending charge. The criminal share of apprehensions has declined as the months have gone by, meaning, well, you know what? They did a good job in the beginning, right? They got a lot of the worst of the worst. By October of 2025,
The percentage of arrested immigrants with a prior conviction or criminal charge had fallen to 55%. Since October 73%, taken in ICE conducting custody had no criminal conviction and only 5 % had a violent criminal conviction. These are numbers that we went over on the program a or two ago. Okay, Cato came up with these numbers. Now.
Many of the criminal immigrants the administration counts among those in detention or convicted criminals called from prisons. Again, Tom Holman, who’s now there in Minnesota, it was a good call on that one. Objected to their sanctuary city policy because he says it wasn’t letting the administration take prisoners into federal custody. If they let us in their damn jail, he said, we could arrest the bad guys in the safety and security of the jail. Again,
The state of Minnesota is arguing against that.
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You go through the numbers here. Okay, you got a professor from my alma mater, Syracuse Tracks Official ICE data finds that between September 21st, 2025 and January 7th, 26, single day ICE detentions increased 11,296, but only 902 of those were convicted criminals. 2,273 had pending criminal charges and 8,121 were other immigrant violators. Okay.
Again, so it looks like that they did a pretty good job at getting the worst out. And this is something that I’ve kind of alluded to. The president could have, would have, should have, probably should have declared a win on getting the worst out. Probably should have declared a win on that front, which didn’t do.
Story breaks in regards to the fraud taking place in Minnesota and from the looks of things, I’m giving you my assessment. The, you know, the warm tongues within the administration, the Stephen Millers of the world saw this as a massive opportunity of, you know, Americans getting ripped off and going after Ilhan Omar and the Somali community. And again, fraud needs to be dealt with.
But like I said, Minnesota is the tip of the iceberg. And we’ve also showed you here that this whole big complaint in hullabaloo is much ado about nothing because Republicans just signed off on another close to $6 billion in refugee aid. After getting out the criminals, which Trump did, good job, okay, they should have focused on cutting all of
the welfare cracking down on work permits. We’ve talked about e-verify here in the program and continued to push for people to self deport. You could have done, you could have done pretty much, could pretty much, pretty much could have gone out and did a mission accomplished.
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But this is where we’re at right now where you’ve got a major mess on your hands. Side note, this is what’s going on in the state of Minnesota. Now granted, it’s the state of Minnesota, it’s hard for a Republican to win in the state of Minnesota. GOP candidate Chris Maydell, who’s actually representing the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross.
is dropping out of the governor’s race as a Republican saying national Republicans have made it nearly impossible. Said he was distraught after he left the GOP gubernatorial debate at a suburban movie theater where he had squabbled on stage with six other candidates about every major political issue except one, immigration. He’s also the ICE agent’s lawyer. They didn’t ask one question about immigration, but they asked about abortion, he said. It’s like, where are your priorities here?
He’s a trial lawyer, first time candidate, confided in his wife that he was thinking of ending his campaign, which he did. He says, I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of their color of their skin and what they look like. I did not sign up for that. That and I, like I said, I’m not on the ground there. And I’ve heard this on plenty of occasions, pulling people over for what they look like.
No. Okay. Talk about racial profiling.
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It’s America for crying out loud. Pulling over Asian, maybe, people. Listen, you know, if you have a tip or you have reason to believe that they’re just going around and doing where’s your papers, I’m sorry, people. I’m sorry. And don’t give me, well, was a Biden’s fault because then all those people in. Yeah, Biden f’d up. OK, but that doesn’t.
mean you should be trampling on the Constitution and acting like that. It really doesn’t. Like I said, there’s much better ways of handling it. And Trump administration blew it. They screwed this up. You take a look at an issue that they were polling extraordinarily well, that has completely flipped. Again, we’ll see how they pull out of this on the other side. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.
