Driving the news: The posters — which read “ARRESTED” — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and have the White House’s official logo at the bottom.

-The “roughly 100” posters were being placed strategically along “Pebble Beach,” where TV news crews do live shots in front of the mansion. A White House official told Axios the intent is for the posters to be visible behind TV journalists reporting from those positions.

-Posters positioned near the West Wing claim to show unauthorized immigrants arrested for “first-degree murder,” “sexual abuse of a child,” “kidnapping and rape,” “murder,” “rape of a child,” and “distribution of fentanyl.”

-Others claim to show people charged with “sexual assault of minors,” “sexual contact with a child,” and “lewd acts in front of a child.”

-The posters describe the arrestees as “illegal aliens.” Their names and precise legal statuses aren’t included.

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  • INeedMana@lemmy.world
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    I would not be surprised if in a month it turns out a bunch of those don’t match with the crimes

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      Not only that, but I bet there are a bunch of people here who really are US citizens, and a bunch more who are either here legally, or were until the President canceled their visas just for this stunt.

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    Anyone who’s an actual adult knows that this is not how adults behave.

    Now imagine the entire fucking building being full of adults that don’t know how to behave like adults. Calling the shots for the most powerful, influential nation on the planet.

    Because that’s our reality now.

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    This is their way of screaming at us “Why are you so mad that we’re abducting children and sending American citizens to prison camps, when we’ve arrested like 10 whole pedophiles?!”

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        Epstein took that evidence to the grave. If only we knew what Trump whispered in his ear in that clip of him breaking down in tears of laughter. I bet it was the incriminating shred that was needed

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    If we’re doing felons it’s weird that I don’t see Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Allan Weisselberg, or President and convicted rapist Donald Trump.

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      WWMD The wealthy white man defense is a pretty air tight legal argument. Fits in nicely with the narcissist’s prayer.

      I didn’t do it, but if I did it wasn’t a big deal. And if it was, you deserved it.

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    Some should quickly print a sign with the guy who sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and put it there…

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    Quick, someone use that same templating and do Trumps 34x felonies. Plaster a bunch of them up in the same area where the ones on the WH lawn can be seen. Bet they’ll get taken down real quick.

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    This is not good, it’s the modern day equivalent of parading people down the street so the public can throw rocks or cabbage at them.

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    Someone needs to print these with all of his crimes and place them on the other side of the fence.

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    The very fact that sexual abuse of a minor is being conflated with immigration shows how far we’ve fallen. This document from the National Institute of Justice shows that the data indicates illegal immigrants have a much lower crime rate than citizens. The issue isn’t that they are immigrants, it’s that they’re criminals. They were presumably committing similar crimes (or at least capable of doing so in Mexico). I’m not any happier knowing that a pedophile is now in Mexico/El Salvador. I want justice and reform. We should always strive for justice and reform. These illegal immigrants aren’t the only ones committing these crimes. As I said earlier: largely, it’s legal citizens committing these crimes. We need to create a system of justice and reform. We need to be able to handle citizens and illegal immigrants.

    Obviously this administration would prefer to take every criminal and push them outside of our borders. Like I said, I don’t care if a crime is committed in or out of my borders. I want justice and reform. I want to live in a world where crimes like this are basically non-existent. And I want to live in a world where people with these issues don’t become repeat offenders.

    Conflating immigration with these types of crimes is just making it harder for us to address the real issues with our justice and reformation system (lack thereof). Not to mention, we are basically just wasting money and time focusing on illegal immigrant crime when the bigger issue is crime being committed by citizens. It’s like we cut off our arm, but as the arm fell to the ground one of the fingernails broke. So, this administration is spending all of its efforts on fixing the broken fingernail - and failing to patch the profuse loss of blood coming from its shoulder.