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riversedge

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Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:25 PM Jul 2

Julia Ainsley: ICE Detention Is 'Not Supposed To Be Punitive' [View all]

Source: crooksandliars.com




Ah, but that wouldn't project strength from our very weak president!

By Susie Madrak — July 2, 2025

In a discussion about Alligator Alcatraz, Homeland Security correspondent Julian Ainsley reminds us of something important:

"The other thing i would say about this, really, is that ICE is not supposed to be punitive. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. That is still on their website," she said.

"That is mandated through court orders. ICE detention is for the purpose of detaining immigrants before they are deported, or while their immigration proceedings are still going on. And that is up to the discretion of ICE whether they should detain everyone during that process.

'But it is not supposed to be like you were sentenced to time in jail, like if what you had done, if you had committed a crime and been sent to a Bureau of Prisons facility and so they're now deviating from that," she said.

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Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/julia-ainsley-ice-detention-not-supposed



The way it has has been is that Everyone nabbed by ICE is presumed guilty--of something--and handcuffed and tossed into a jail.
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