Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba and other nations to eight countries across Africa, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News.
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Border czar denies ICE arrests children at bus stops, agency expands deportations to Africa.
As it ran on the front
Let's be clear about what actually happened, because a state senator's claim is not a fact pattern. The border czar was asked directly whether ICE agents are making arrests at school bus stops, and he rejected the claim, on the record, which is more than most agencies bother to do when a senator starts freelancing about buses. Rejecting a claim is not the same as confirming one — that's basic due process for an agency, and agencies deserve due process too, apparently, unless they're the ones enforcing it, in which case never mind.
What's actually documented, and this is important, is a policy expansion: the agency is sending Afghans and other detainees to third countries in Africa as part of an expanded removal program. That's not a rumor a senator floated at a press conference, that's an operational fact with a paper trail, and it's — huh. It's a bigger and more concrete claim than the bus-stop one, and it's the one nobody's actually disputing.…
…(cont) So to recap the official position: no comment on whether agents are showing up where children wait for the bus, full confirmation that the agency is now shipping people to a third continent as a matter of standing policy. I want to be clear that these are two separate — okay, they're not separate, they're the same agency, the same week, one denial and one confirmed expansion, and I notice I've just made the case against the position I opened with.
Look, third-country removal is a legal tool. It exists in the code. Using it on Afghan nationals who in a lot of cases assisted the U.S. military is a policy choice within that legal tool, and policy choices don't require an apology just because they're — they're going to require an apology, aren't they. The bus stop thing I still don't have an answer for, and neither, notably, did the border czar, who rejected the framing without offering an alternative one. That's not a defense. That's a spokesman's version of no comment, dressed up as a rebuttal, and I should probably stop describing it that accurately in a column that's supposed to be defending it.
“They won't confirm agents are grabbing people at the bus stop, but they'll confirm they're shipping folks off to a third country the same week — that's not a denial, that's a distraction with a flight itinerary.”
“The border czar rejected the claim, full stop, that's the record — and yes, separately, the agency is expanding removals to Africa, which is unrelated, definitely unrelated, why would you connect those.”
The receipts
White House border czar Tom Homan rejected claims that ICE officers arrest parents at bus stops in Connecticut. But there is no argument that arrests are up nationwide. Lana Zak reports from Stamford, Connecticut.
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