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Brenda

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Tue Nov 18, 2025, 05:25 PM Tuesday

'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record

According to the Chicago Tribune:

The Trump administration on Friday released the names of 614 people whose Chicago-area immigration arrests may have violated a 2022 consent decree, and only 16 of them have criminal histories that present a “high public safety risk.”

The newspaper reports that of the 16 people arrested with criminal histories—representing just 2.6% of the total listed in the filing— “five involved domestic battery, two were related to drunken driving, and one allegedly had an unidentified criminal history in another country.” None had criminal backgrounds that included worst-of-the-worst offenses like rape or murder.

And now they are using those same Gestapo type tactics in Charlotte NC.

https://therealnews.com/charlotte-residents-horrified-after-border-patrol-arrests-women
were arrested for honking their car horn to alert others that US Border Patrol was in the area.

Local news station WCNC reported on Monday that the two women, who are US citizens, were taken into custody in the city’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood after Border Patrol agents pulled them over and accused them of interfering in operations by honking their horn.

Video of the incident shows masked federal agents yelling at the women and demanding that they roll down their car windows. When the women do not comply, one officer smashes through the window and then he and other officers pull them out of the vehicle.

This has got to stop!!!

https://www.commondreams.org/news/worst-of-the-worst-doj-figures-show-97-4-of-614-detained-immigrants-in-chicago-had-no-criminal-record
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'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record (Original Post) Brenda Tuesday OP
DURec leftstreet Tuesday #1
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That percentage is more than that of ICE employees. Sneederbunk Tuesday #3
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