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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 3h

Boo! Go Sox!

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe they can find out where he does his banking too.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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Mitch Ryals @mitchryals.bsky.social · 7h

A Homeland Security Investigations agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop on Oct. 17. But a @dcpolicedept.bsky.social officer omitted any mention of the shooting from his reports, apparently under instruction from a "team leader."

washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7732...

A Federal Agent Shot at a Driver in D.C. An MPD Officer Was Told To Omit the Shooting from His Report.

An HSI agent fired three times into a vehicle police claimed was trying to flee. The charges were dismissed during a preliminary hearing.

washingtoncitypaper.com

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 9h

Kavanaugh stop.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Teens heading to school. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do.

acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 10h

And why not have people determined what policies will best improve lives, then develop messaging? Oh no…we rather just assume voters are well-informed, and info can never persuade them.

acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 11h

Sure Joey.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 12h

If we never campaign on an issue, nor do anything to educate the public about it, do we expect the public to understand or support it? FFS!

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 12h

I tired of banging my head against the wall. This assumes people have heard a cogent argument for DC statehood, which they have not. It’s just f’ing vibes! This is pathetic.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

A good overview of SNAP benefits by state. usafacts.org/answers/how-...

How many people receive SNAP benefits in the US every month? | USAFacts

About 41.7 million people during fiscal year (FY) 2024. That’s 12.3% of the US population. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is determined based on household income...

usafacts.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Why is the president setting trade policy based on a TV ad he doesn't like?

BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know why DHS is in Chicago. Send them to Iowa since the people there voted for this inhumane cruelty.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Facility unlawfully denies routine visit from Member of Congress
Congressman Horsford about the incident: "What are they hiding? You don't get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 2d

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 2d

Sad.

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 2d

For $35 I’d like to let the food banks try.

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 2d

The damage done by Rupert Murdoch is incalculable.

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 2d

We’re not done with October yet.

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know why news organizations always go looking for working class people in small midwestern towns (white), but ignore the Bronx or the south side of Chicago (nonwhite). Actually, I do know. Job loss from deindustrialization in Chicago doesn’t mean anything, but job loss in rural OH does.

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BirdDroneOne @birddroneone.bsky.social · 5d

The East Wing Desecrators

Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this.

In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info.

🧵

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BirdDroneOne @birddroneone.bsky.social · 5d

McCrery is on faculty at Catholic University of America
architecture.catholic.edu/about-us/fac...

James C. McCrery, II

Located in Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America is the national university of the Catholic Church, founded by the U.S. bishops and the pope, faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ a...

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