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 at school bus stops as agency expands deportations to Africa
As it ran on the front
The claim making the rounds is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is picking up children at school bus stops. That did not happen, and the border czar was correct to reject it, full stop, on the record, this week. What we have is a Connecticut senator's characterization, contested by the administration on the same day, and this desk trusts the on-record denial over an unverified claim from a lawmaker with an obvious interest in — I was going to say 'an obvious interest in getting attention,' which, fine, every senator has an obvious interest in getting attention, that's not a rebuttal, that's just what senators are.
What is not in dispute, because the agency put its own name on it, is that ICE is expanding third-country deportations, sending Afghans and others to Africa. That is not the bus-stop story. That is a different program, a documented one, on a documented timeline, and this desk is not going to pretend the two are related just because they both involve the same three letters. They are separate operations with separate legal footings and separate — okay, they are both things the same agency is doing in the same month, I'll give you that much, but one is a denied allegation and the other is a confirmed expansion, and confirmed things and denied things are not the same category of fact, even when they come from the same press office.…
…(cont) The honest through-line, if there is one, is that an agency spending its week denying it operates near school buses is, in the same week, confirming it operates on a different continent. That's not a scandal, that's a bandwidth allocation. Somebody has to decide where the enforcement goes, and this month it went to Africa instead of the Wallingford bus loop, allegedly, because allegedly is still doing a lot of work in the sentence about the bus stops. I'd stand behind the denial more comfortably if the agency's public schedule this month weren't already this full.
“The agency spent the week saying it doesn't go near school buses, then confirmed in the same breath it's shipping people to Africa. Watch what they deny locally and what they admit globally, that's the actual map of where the power's pointed.”
“The bus stop story is unverified, full stop, the agency was clear about — it's also expanding operations to a third continent this month, but that's a separate program, unrelated, entirely unrelated, why do these things keep landing in the same news cycle.”
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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