After 100 ICE agents spent five hours on the ground looking for criminal migrants in Chicago last week, only two people were arrested, the New York Post reported.
In Denver and Aurora, Colorado, which President Donald Trump decried as the epicenter of migrant violence tied to Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, an eye-popping 400 ICE agents were dispatched Wednesday. By the day’s end—and after knocking on hundreds of doors, including those of U.S. citizens—only one Tren de Aragua member was taken into custody, sources told ABC News.
That lone arrest is a far cry from the 100-plus gang members ICE hoped to nab—success the agency has enjoyed in certain raids, like in New York. Border czar Tom Homan suggested the Colorado raid flopped because the gang had been tipped off by local media coverage. But it’s that coverage, and a broader “PR blitz,” that appears to be propping up the first weeks of Trump’s migration crackdown.
Trump’s team has flooded the zone with much-hyped arrest figures posted to X and turned ICE raids into a spectacle—complete with celebrity embeds like Dr. Phil and “ICE Barbie” Nancy Mace tagging along. “Much of this is optics and not reality,” immigration attorney Elizabeth Ricci, who has represented migrants in every administration since George H. W. Bush, told the Daily Beast this week.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-migrant-crackdown-has-more-bark-than-bite-experts-say/
They manufactured a universe in their drug-addled minds that doesn’t exist, yet repeated the descriptions of it enough times that stupid, gullible people believed it – all in order to “own the libs”. And over time, they apparently started to hallucinate, believing that it was like they described… But when they actually attempted to “operate” in that fake universe that didn’t exist, “reality” bit them in the ass.