It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are \u2018illegal\u2019 and are \u2018criminals\u2019<\/p>\n
On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House press briefing<\/a>. \u201cOf the 3,500 arrests Ice has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers?\u201d asked a reporter in the front row. \u201cHow many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll of them,\u201d responded the new White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, making her debut in the briefing room, \u201cbecause they illegally broke our nation\u2019s laws, and, therefore, they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.\u201d She continued: \u201cI know the last administration didn\u2019t see it that way, so it\u2019s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But that\u2019s exactly what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and author, and a former host on MSNBC. He is also a Guardian US columnist and the editor-in-chief of Zeteo<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are \u2018illegal\u2019 and are \u2018criminals\u2019 On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House press briefing. \u201cOf the 3,500 arrests Ice has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}