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Why do we allow people to come here on a tourist or student or any visa then allow them to request asylum? Isn’t that lying on their visa application & therefore invalidates their request?

Every week another headline says ICE arrested a "non-criminal." Here's what that word hides. Immigration judges issued 485,456 removal orders in FY2025. 306,557 were in absentia. The alien never showed up. About 1.6 million aliens now have final orders and are still here. The judge already decided. They decided it didn't apply to them. Willfully failing to depart after a final order is a federal crime under 8 U.S.C. 1253. And Obama removed 438,421 people in FY2013 under the same law. A removal order is not a suggestion. My column in the Daily Caller: dailycaller.com/2026/11/05/s…

☕ MORNING TEA: WHAT A REMOVAL ORDER ACTUALLY IS People hear "ordered deported" and picture a plane the next day. That's rarely how it works. A final order of removal comes from an immigration judge. It's final once the appeals are done or the time to appeal runs out. Voluntary departure means the person agrees to leave on their own dime by a set date. If they don't go, it turns into a removal order and the penalties get worse. Expedited removal skips the judge altogether. An officer can order someone out on the spot, mostly people caught at or near the border who just got here. If they say they're afraid to go home, they get a fear screening first. Pass it and they go into the regular court system, which can take years. Then there's the one nobody talks about: the in absentia order. That's when someone gets released, is told to show up for court, and never does. The judge orders them removed without them in the room. A huge share of removal orders are issued this way. Think about that. The person with the order has already shown you they won't follow the rules. And if someone gets deported and sneaks back in? No new hearing. The old order gets reinstated and they go right back out. So why do so many orders never get carried out? Because an order is paper, not a plane ticket. When I ran operations in NYC, getting the order was the easy part. The hard part was finding the person, getting their home country to issue travel documents, and having a bed to hold them. Some countries stall for months. The courts limit how long ICE can detain someone when removal isn't coming soon. And the in absentia cases are the hardest of all, because those people are gone by design. One more thing. No one can make a final order disappear for a fee. If a "notario" or consultant tells you they can, it's a scam. Walk away. A removal order is the start of enforcement, not the end. Orders only mean something if they're enforced. @ICEgov @RealTomHoman @DHSgov

🚨 ICE DOESN'T KIDNAP AND IT DOESN'T "DISAPPEAR" ANYONE. THE NARRATIVE IS THE POINT. The New York Times and the open-borders lawyers say ICE is "disappearing" people. That's a lie. Nobody disappeared. ICE knows exactly where every detainee is, and every one of them can pick up a phone. The only people pulled off the public locator already have a final order of removal. Their case is over. The order is final. They're being removed. That locator was never the law. ICE built it in 2010 as a courtesy. Here's what that courtesy turned into. Martin Soto's wife told the country ICE "kidnapped" her husband on a diaper run. The Kearny police report says he was arrested for assault, and it lists the victim as "Ms. Soto." ICE took him from the county jail the next day. Sound familiar? In LA, a woman claimed masked men grabbed her and pressured her to sign removal papers. Activists held a press conference. Her daughter started a GoFundMe. Mayor Karen Bass pushed the story. It was staged. Last month she pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy. Prosecutors say she did it for sympathy and donations. I'll add one more reason. The narrative. The federal prosecutor in LA said it plain: the "kidnapping" rhetoric is dangerous and "recklessly peddled by politicians." When you call a lawful arrest a kidnapping, you're telling people to stop it by any means. That's how officers get hurt. That's exactly what lit the fuse at Delaney Hall. A hunger strike DHS says never happened. Barricades. Mobs trying to block ICE vehicles. An AP photographer hit in the knee by a wood beam. More than 80 arrests. It raged for a week before Sherrill sent in state police, and her stated reason was not giving ICE a "pretext" to expand operations. State police moved in, made arrests and cleared the area. Then the left turned on her and called her a one-term governor. Within days the state police handed it off, Baraka lifted the curfew, and he pulled his own officers back, saying it isn't Newark's job "to secure a private facility." She took heat and folded. Actors. Not leaders. You don't see this night after night outside detention centers in Louisiana and Texas. You see it in Newark. Portland. Broadview. Sanctuary states, every one. That's not an accident. And when detainees get flown to Louisiana, thank the same politicians. Illinois forced its county jails to drop ICE, and ICE had to move everyone out of state. Maryland followed in 2021. Now three out of four people ICE detains in Maryland are held in Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi. They kicked ICE out of their jails and then cry about the flights. Every Democrat "oversight" visit I've seen ends the same way. Shut it down. Abolish ICE. "ICE is hiding people" is just the newest talking point. The Times? Same as always. They wrote "Her disappearance was no accident" about a woman with a 2013 final order of removal who called her family within days. I had to answer their hit pieces on ICE when I worked in New York. They haven't changed. ICE doesn't kidnap. ICE arrests. Lawfully. Get used to it. @SecMullinDHS @DHSgov @ICEgov @RealTomHoman @Phase2Deport @NICEnforcement @JennieSTaer @USAttyEssayli @MikieSherrill @rasjbaraka @KarenBassLA @nytimes

Study after study over the last decade has proven empirically that so-called sanctuary policies either have no impact on crime rates (neither increasing nor decreasing crime) or have a somewhat positive effect (reducing crime). Link in next post to a thread collecting them.