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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ICE denies arresting children at school bus stops, confirms deporting migrants to Africa
As it ran on the front
Let's be precise, because precision is exactly what the critics of this agency refuse to offer. A Connecticut senator claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement made arrests at school bus stops. The border czar has flatly rejected that claim. Flatly. There is no arrest, there was no arrest, there will be no further comment on an arrest that, again, did not happen — at a bus stop, involving children, on a school morning. None of that occurred. We are simply expanding our lawful removal authority to third countries, an entirely distinct, entirely separate operational program under which individuals, including Afghans, are being relocated to processing partners in Africa. That is not the same thing as a bus stop. That is a flight manifest.
Did I say flight manifest? I mean it is logistics, humane logistics, executed under established statutory authority, and if it happens to be occurring in the same news cycle as the bus stop denial, that is a scheduling matter, not a pattern. The agency does not do patterns. The agency does operations, individually, each one clean, each one denied or confirmed strictly on its own procedural merits, which is why one gets a flat denial and the other gets a confirmed expansion in the same press cycle from the same building.…
…(cont) Is it possible that an agency capable of moving people to a third continent on a Tuesday is also capable of a stop at a bus loop on a Wednesday? Sure. Anything's possible. Is it likely? The border czar says no, and the border czar would know — that's the job, knowing. It is not my job to reconcile a denial with an expansion; my job is to tell you both are true, simultaneously, without contradiction, the way an agency this size operates every single — did I say without contradiction? There's a contradiction. There's clearly a contradiction. But it's a scheduling contradiction, not a credibility one, and until someone puts a bus stop arrest on video, we're going with the denial.
The Africa flights, though — those we're not denying. Those we're proud of. Ask us about those anytime. Just don't ask us about both in the same sentence.
“They deny the bus stop because that one has moms with phones and a senator asking questions on the record. Meanwhile the flights to Africa go out quiet, third country, no local news crew waiting at the gate. Same agency, same week — one story gets a flat denial, the other gets a shrug and a policy name.”
“The border czar has been clear: no arrests occurred at any school bus stop, full stop, and that claim has been rejected. The Africa flights are a separate, lawful third-country removal process — did I say separate? They're the same operational authority, just a different zip code. Two different things. Functionally.”
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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