Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" in the U.S. were arrested and hundreds more flown out of the country on military aircraft, the White House said.
In a post on X Thursday night, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “[A bunch of unverifiable bullshit].” …
Leavitt gave no further details about the arrests.
Until we have any kind of information that could be cross referenced against independent systems (e.g. names of the deported, court case file number, flight registration numbers, etc.) it’s impossible to know what happened. They definitely want to hurt as many migrants as possible but they also have a strong incentive to exaggerate everything they’re actually able to do.
Meanwhile, a defense official said [continues below]
Why not use their name? Would be helpful for your readers to see things they’ve said and done in the past to know if they’re a trustworthy source. And also to avoid general confusion, like -
[continued from above] there were two flights overnight. Both went to Guatemala, according to two sources, and carried 81 deportees. [continues below]
Did the two sources confirm the flights went to Guatemala or that they had 81 migrants on it? Are those two sources the same people as “a defense official” from the prior sentence and “a Guatemalan official” in the next sentence?
[continued from above] However, a Guatemalan official said 79 Guatemalans had been returned, 31 women and 48 men.
So was that a simple administrative slip up or did somebody murder two migrants mid-flight and dump their bodies in the ocean? I wouldn’t put that past the Pinochet fans running things today.
Three officials say the plan to use military aircraft for the deportation flights was approved under the Trump administration, not the Biden administration.
Are these three different officials than the previously mentioned officials? Are we taking the word of someone who couldn’t get the details about how many people were on this plane right?
The flights are part of the actions the acting secretary of defense announced on Wednesday following Mr. Trump’s executive action ordering the U.S. military to step up its presence on the border.
FFS CBS, acting secretary of defense Robert Salesses. It’s almost like you don’t want these stories to come up when somebody searches the names of the people involved in a few years when they want to see what their commencement speaker or new board member or boss or whatever used to do.
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Until we have any kind of information that could be cross referenced against independent systems (e.g. names of the deported, court case file number, flight registration numbers, etc.) it’s impossible to know what happened. They definitely want to hurt as many migrants as possible but they also have a strong incentive to exaggerate everything they’re actually able to do.
Why not use their name? Would be helpful for your readers to see things they’ve said and done in the past to know if they’re a trustworthy source. And also to avoid general confusion, like -
Did the two sources confirm the flights went to Guatemala or that they had 81 migrants on it? Are those two sources the same people as “a defense official” from the prior sentence and “a Guatemalan official” in the next sentence?
So was that a simple administrative slip up or did somebody murder two migrants mid-flight and dump their bodies in the ocean? I wouldn’t put that past the Pinochet fans running things today.
Are these three different officials than the previously mentioned officials? Are we taking the word of someone who couldn’t get the details about how many people were on this plane right?
FFS CBS, acting secretary of defense Robert Salesses. It’s almost like you don’t want these stories to come up when somebody searches the names of the people involved in a few years when they want to see what their commencement speaker or new board member or boss or whatever used to do.