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DOJ finally releases year-old raid footage, pledges $300 million for more of it
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“They show you fifty-seven people getting cuffed in a snack factory a year late and call it sunshine, then the same week they pass the hat for $300 million to go grab a couple thousand more just like it — that's not oversight, that's a recruitment poster with a body count. Two thousand one hundred ninety-seven in New York, three hundred eighty in Ohio, kids at a bus stop in Danbury — that's not a policy, that's a quota with a press office. Somebody's neighbor doesn't come home and somewhere a robot dog gets a two-million-dollar budget line; that's the receipt, right there.”
“Look, this is a transparency win, full stop — the department released bodycam footage, that's accountability, that's the system working. Sure it's from a raid that happened a year ago, but sunlight doesn't have an expiration date. And the $300 million, that's not "more raids," that's interior enforcement efficiency, cross-deputization, local partnership — wait, cross-deputization is just funding the same officers to do the same raids. Scratch that. It's fraud enforcement. Mostly. The numbers speak for themselves, is what I'm told to say.”
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
The Department of Justice is offering a combined $300 million to ramp up prosecutions of “criminal aliens.” State and local agencies can apply for funding by Sept. 23 to give their employees full-time or part-time jobs within the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division or Criminal Division, according to a notice from the department.
We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has been the target of a spike in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, including local…
Republicans' reconciliation package puts $70 billion into ICE's department NBC News, May 2026
Body camera footage from September 2025 provides a rare look inside an immigration raid at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant in Cato, New York. Federal agents arrived at the snack-food factory shortly after 9 a.m., and a manager eventually opened the door after officers discussed forcing entry. Over several hours, authorities from…
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