ICE is holding 44,000 people/most Democrats want to reform, not abolish ICE

Most Democrats don’t want to abolish ICE but do want to reform it.

CBP's many failings during the family separation crisis are well documented. But Ronald Vitiello, its deputy at the time, received few questions about them at his confirmation hearing to lead ICE. https://t.co/wjdV1ov3VW

— Noah Lanard (@nlanard) November 15, 2018

Acting head of ICE apologizes for sending a tweet in 2015 that suggested renaming the Democratic Party as the "NeoKlanist" party. https://t.co/bW7dUkKQAc

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 15, 2018

Just to put that in perspective… Wrigley Field in Chicago only holds 41,000 people. So imagine all of the fans and all of the employees at a packed Cubs game — hauled away and put in cages. Then jail a few thousand more. https://t.co/2m62WkqLgR

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) November 12, 2018

.@realDonaldTrump says Democrats want to abolish ICE. Context: Congressional Democratic leaders have called for a restructuring of the agency, but not an end to immigration enforcement. https://t.co/AU8TQKWQ1r

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) November 3, 2018

With just days to go before the midterm elections, Democrats haven't abolished ICE, just their message about it https://t.co/o2SkdCR94n

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 4, 2018

Trump is restricting asylum seekers

BREAKING: The American Civil Liberties Union files a legal challenge to President Trump's order denying asylum to migrants if they cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. https://t.co/yLo7ePGI9w

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 9, 2018

Trump tells us he’s issuing proclamation suspending the entry of immigrants who cross the border unlawfully, barring them from eligibility for asylum. Any inadmissible immigrants to ports of entry, where they will be processed “in a lawful manner,” staff said yesterday. pic.twitter.com/XYqvLNWy8c

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 9, 2018

The Trump administration is sending thousands of troops to keep out Central American asylum-seekers, but it may well lift a travel ban on a far-right bigot—who previously snuck in to the US—so he can speak to @SteveKingIA and other fellow racists. https://t.co/6GUVR3k5cG

— Ned Price (@nedprice) November 9, 2018

U.N. tells Washington to protect refugees after Trump limits asylum https://t.co/wE0VCDfY04

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 9, 2018

Trump just upended asylum law by citing a fake caravan crisis https://t.co/8eO5z4jpwi pic.twitter.com/WU1PYjCuvR

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 9, 2018

In a proclamation, President Trump called illegal immigration “a crisis” and suspended asylum rights to all immigrants who attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally https://t.co/neJfni0vPF

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 9, 2018

BREAKING: The Trump administration is moving to prohibit people who illegally cross the U.S. border with Mexico from claiming asylum.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) November 8, 2018

BREAKING — The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the decision by @realDonaldTrump to deny asylum to migrants who cross the southern border. The legal challenge comes just hours after the @POTUS announcement. Could be another protracted legal battle.

— Michael D. Shear (@shearm) November 9, 2018

New immigration plan coming

NEW: Trump admin. expects to be sued over its draconian new immigration plan, which may be unveiled as soon as Thurs. afternoon, two sr. officials with knowledge of the discussions say — but with Judge Kavanaugh now on US Supreme Court, it expects to win. https://t.co/s4G49Uaowz

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 8, 2018

Appeals court rules Trump can’t end DACA

On the surface, this looks like good news for DACA recipients.

In reality, it means that the Trump admin can now appeal this decision to the Republican Supreme Court where the Court will likely vote along party lines against DACA. https://t.co/yVtKesSd2w

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 8, 2018

BREAKING: Appeals court says Trump administration can't end DACA https://t.co/LmHplm4JB3 pic.twitter.com/eg90lLGkbN

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2018

Department of Justice trying to end DACA

DOJ has shown a remarkable lack of respect for the judicial process by repeatedly seeking to skip over the lower courts and, rather, go straight to the Supreme Court – including in our #2020Census case and, just today, regarding the injunction we secured to protect #DACA.

— NY AG Underwood (@NewYorkStateAG) November 5, 2018

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to intervene in DACA https://t.co/j4N7MJAuh3

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 5, 2018

The Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene in several cases over the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program https://t.co/c5uCcSRujf

— POLITICO (@politico) November 5, 2018

Big DACA news hours before the polls open – DOJ moving ahead to do "take every lawful measure" to end DACA as soon as possible. https://t.co/2v3KcXjwpo

— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) November 5, 2018

The Justice Department's request, on election eve of the midterms, involves a case seeking to overturn protections for Dreamers. https://t.co/PIKyAmPxzM

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 5, 2018

Trump’s ad is so racist even Fox won’t run it

Trump wanted to run on bigotry and fear instead of a good economy.

President Trump "hated" his campaign's closing ad and insisted on pivoting to immigration https://t.co/g524YvIXRS pic.twitter.com/fGHzb0iwOX

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 6, 2018

And yet the list of current elected Republicans who are raising alarms about Trump closing his campaign with the most open appeals to white racial resentments & fears since George Wallace (and maybe more overt than even him) includes….waiting, waiting, waiting. https://t.co/lvVTyGIeWO

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 6, 2018

Guess who likes that ad ——> https://t.co/IdtWwjjmxX

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 5, 2018

So, to summarize today's ad action: @CNN, @NBC, @FoxNews and @Facebook have all rejected an ad by the *President of the United States* because they consider it racist. Amazing.

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) November 5, 2018

That racist Trump ad WAS running on Fox News, but not anymore: "Upon further review, FOX News pulled the ad yesterday and it will not appear on either FOX News Channel or FOX Business Network," ad sales president Marianne Gambelli says. https://t.co/BJWKspmiwM

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 5, 2018

Trump claims he didn't know his campaign's immigration ad now will not air on Fox, NBC and CNN.

"I don't know about it, you're telling me something I don't know … We have a lot of ads."

He added: "A lot of things are offensive … Your questions are offensive.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 5, 2018

Fox News takes a principled stand against airing fear-mongering videos about immigration. https://t.co/3iD7FQ7lyq

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 5, 2018

Notice how the clear use of "racist" to describe this advertisement changed the entire conversation surrounding it. Not racially charged. Not plays on racial anxieties. But racist https://t.co/T1u3yyyNkL

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) November 5, 2018

Trump lies about asylum seekers

In case you're listening to Trump, most asylum seekers released before an asylum hearing do actually show up as required. https://t.co/aoF1V0FFDJ

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 1, 2018

It was repeated on Fox this morning. Ainsley Earhardt said she'd "heard it was only 2%." https://t.co/WzUINyUbin

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/TheToddSchulte/status/1058099409790099456

There is no immigration crime crisis

Another racist lie!

Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native born Americans. https://t.co/lQaovCzO63
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) February 11, 2019

There is no immigration crisis. There is no surge in crime. It's just racist politics. https://t.co/earztoi9uf pic.twitter.com/9MoepXC42o
— Pedro Nicolaci da Costa (@pdacosta) June 27, 2018

update 11/2/18

Reminder: Immigration does not drive crime.

Read more about the myth of the criminal immigrant in @annaflagg's story: https://t.co/in0cZ5nIOy pic.twitter.com/jEpX1DvvjD
— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) November 2, 2018

update

The facts 👇

—Undocumented population has been mostly flat since 2007 https://t.co/pkJQSjxye8

—There's no evidence illegal immigration boosts violent crime https://t.co/ncK9RweInx

—First-generation immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans https://t.co/imc0k8sqAu
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 2, 2018

Immigration stats

update 11/6/18

▪️Sanctuary Cities

For TMP context: The Trump administration repeatedly claims immigrants drive up crime rates.

But @AnnaFlagg found, using evidence from 200 cities and towns, that the premise is untrue. In fact, immigration tends to reduce crime. 11/https://t.co/in0cZ5nIOy
— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) November 6, 2018

Seven statistics about immigrants and crime

Trump’s immigration announcement

update 11/2/18:

President Trump issued a warning to the migrant caravan headed toward the United States. His speech was filled with false claims. https://t.co/R5Um0Pk9Fo

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 2, 2018

Opinion: MSNBC blows off Trump’s immigration fearmongering address https://t.co/eg8dQkIXyB

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 2, 2018

Trump’s immigration speech was riddled with false claims…take a listen#CuomoPrimeTime #LetsGetAfterIt pic.twitter.com/PrpBZM84P6

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) November 2, 2018

Daniel Dale’s thread:

Trump is so far saying his usual things about illegal immigration.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 1, 2018

So @jaketapper points out that the President, who said only 3% of asylum seekers show up court dates, was wrong.

Nope. It’s 76%, and was up to 99% under a new pilot program President Trump ended.

So just a completely entirely false misleading stat off by 10x.

— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) November 1, 2018

A quick live fact check of some of Trump’s immigration falsehoods https://t.co/ilY1CFq5Ry @TheLeadCNN

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 1, 2018

Trump: We’re going to ‘catch’ and no longer ‘release’ migrants https://t.co/fTwHMpmuJb @kaitlancollins and @Arianedevogue report @TheLeadCNN

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 1, 2018

Trump falsely characterizing Hill immigration debate. Says Democrats, who are in the minority, are blocking action: "It's only the Republicans in unison who want to change them." Immigration bill foundered on Republican divisions.

— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) November 1, 2018

I think this is true – Trump doesn’t want to solve the problem – he wants an issue to rigle up his bigots:

5 years ago, the Senate passed an immigration bill with bipartisan support. The House refused to take it up. Why can't Trump close the deal? It's because he prefers the issue and the fear it creates as opposed to a solution. We're talking about this on #Hardball tonight.

— Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) November 1, 2018

Trump falsely claims GOP is in “unison” on immigration when two WH-backed bills were rejected in the House this year after a significant number of GOP defections, joining Dems to reject the measures

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 1, 2018

Analysis: 5 reasons Trump’s "immigration crisis" is a made-up one https://t.co/fpz60ptVap

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 1, 2018

Trump's not going to issue any such order, and there would be mass resignations if he tried to. It's all fake bluster by someone behaving as a fake commander-in-chief. But it goes without saying that this all is deeply embarrassing and utterly unworthy of an American president. https://t.co/RXY8zb3iKV

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 1, 2018

Trump lost television audiences on Thursday as he made fiery remarks on immigration and the nation’s asylum system that deviated from what was expected to be a meaningful policy speech https://t.co/3wqr3PB25s

— POLITICO (@politico) November 1, 2018

Trump wants to block asylum seekers

Ramp up the lies and bigotry. These people have a right to apply for asylum. Consider the conditions where they are coming from.

Trump's order to shut out asylum seekers comes just five days before midterms, where the likelihood of a Dem takeover of the House threatens to thwart the president's plans https://t.co/t9uox6Hi1V

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 1, 2018