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US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1VQ7gJ

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Family of Liam Conejo Ramos has more time to respond to DHS deportation proceedings

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/0 ... for-family

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Democrats Criticize Cost of National Guard Deployment in D.C. and Its Results in New Report
By Frank Thorp V and Kyla Guilfoil
February 5, 2026

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(NBC) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard to the nation's capital has cost taxpayers more than $330 million and delivered little in the way of measurable results, according to a new report from Democrats on the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Sens. Gary Peters of Michigan and Andy Kim of New Jersey released the report Thursday as the National Guard's presence in Washington could continue through the rest of 2026. The senators said the deployment is on track to exceed $600 million at the one-year mark, in August.
“What’s interesting is that despite that significant investment of taxpayer dollars now six months into the mission, the National Guard has been unable to identify any specific measurable public safety outcomes directly attributable to their presence,” Peters, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters on a media call.

The 14-page report characterizes the National Guard's presence as having a vague crime-fighting directive with an “unrealistic or unachievable outcome that would leave them in D.C. indefinitely.” It says a top National Guard commander told staff members that their mission is to help drive down metrics like violent crimes and drug overdoses so that they're nonexistent.

President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C. in an executive order in August and deployed the National Guard to the city. Within a month of his order, more than 2,300 National Guard troops from the district and eight states, including West Virginia, Georgia and Ohio, were patrolling the city’s streets.

Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congr ... cna257470

caltrek’s comment: A pity most of the MAGA types will dismiss this as partisan propaganda even if evidence to the contrary is not forthcoming.

Also, I have a rotten feeling that all of this is a kind of dry run for the 2026 and/or 2028 elections in which the MAGA crowd will seek to overturn legitimate results through unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.

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US appeals court upholds Trump's immigration detention policy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1VR0hQ

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Religious freedom group says US military members were 'pressured' by commanders to see 'Melania'

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... rff-2026-2

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Accountability for ICE and CBP

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accou ... ce-and-cbp

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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Bogus efforts used to gain Prop 4 repeal signatures called 'most extensive fraud that we've seen'

https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/ ... -weve-seen

The move to get the repeal on the ballot stems from those angry over the state's new congressional maps. Proposition 4 was passed in 2018 and created an independent commission to draw congressional boundaries and prohibit gerrymandering. The Republican-led repeal effort must collect approximately 140,000 signatures by the upcoming deadline.

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