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Miles Archer

(24,434 posts)
Sun May 17, 2026, 10:40 AM May 17

Trump's ICE detained "a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people..."

Trump’s ICE detained a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people during the first seven months of his second term, new government data reveals.

The figures—analyzed by PunchUp, the Daily Beast’s investigations Substack publication—are drawn from 505,000 ICE I-213 arrest forms released by The Guardian last Friday following litigation by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Trump, 79, had repeatedly promised his second-term immigration crackdown would target “the worst of the worst.” Instead, PunchUp‘s analysis shows agents hauled in 21 cancer patients, seven organ transplant recipients, at least 24 disabled people—including the blind, deaf, and paralyzed—and 130 pregnant women between January and July last year.

Last week, PunchUp revealed that the same dataset showed ICE doubled its daily arrest rate the second Trump took the oath of office. Now PunchUp can show how that surge in arrests led to vulnerable groups being targeted.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-ice-goons-targeted-pregnant-women-and-cancer-patients/

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Trump's ICE detained "a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people..." (Original Post) Miles Archer May 17 OP
The worst of the worst. Solly Mack May 17 #1
I certainly feel much safer now. Cruelty is the point. Biophilic May 17 #2
Tough guys those Icers. Tbear May 17 #3
It's just a body count. ICE really doesn't care who it is or how it turns out underpants May 17 #4
Modern fascist Volksgemeinschaft Thomas Hurt May 17 #5
Jeffrey Goldberg called the Jolene doctrine. Just because he can. Walleye May 17 #6
Wow! I had to look up the Jolene Doctrine. 70sEraVet May 17 #16
trumps private SS GESTAPO in action. republianmushroom May 17 #7
Velshi discussing this now malaise May 17 #8
The bonus system. Johnny2X2X May 17 #9
Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition. 1WorldHope May 17 #10
They also left disabled people to die in the cold after finding they couldn't deport them. ChicagoTeamster May 17 #11
Does not surprise me. mgardener May 17 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author mgardener May 17 #13
Want to know the difference between Democrats and Republicans? angrychair May 17 #14
Just think of all that contracting profit ______________/s IbogaProject May 17 #15
Article Has a paywall I_UndergroundPanther Monday #17

underpants

(197,268 posts)
4. It's just a body count. ICE really doesn't care who it is or how it turns out
Sun May 17, 2026, 11:01 AM
May 17

They just need the daily count.

Walleye

(45,543 posts)
6. Jeffrey Goldberg called the Jolene doctrine. Just because he can.
Sun May 17, 2026, 11:43 AM
May 17

They are delighted every chance they get to mistreat women and infirmed.

70sEraVet

(5,637 posts)
16. Wow! I had to look up the Jolene Doctrine.
Sun May 17, 2026, 02:39 PM
May 17

Very clever , and REVEALING!
Here's a video of the interview where General McChrystal makes that analogy.

https://m.

&t=10s&pp=2AEKkAIB

The Jolene part begins around 23:30 -- but I found the entire interview to be worthwhile.

Johnny2X2X

(24,440 posts)
9. The bonus system.
Sun May 17, 2026, 01:01 PM
May 17

ICE gets bonuses for arresting people. A lot easier to locate and arrest gravely ill immigrants than it is criminals. In fact, I’d bet most of the actual dangerous criminals are being left alone unless they get arrested for something else.

1WorldHope

(2,170 posts)
10. Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition.
Sun May 17, 2026, 01:02 PM
May 17

America should be a lesson for the ages. People who worship money are dangerous. Never put a sociopath at the top of the government or any position where they can hurt people or animals.

mgardener

(2,413 posts)
12. Does not surprise me.
Sun May 17, 2026, 01:19 PM
May 17

In his mind, he is saving money on health care and preventing US citizenship for all those babies!

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angrychair

(12,545 posts)
14. Want to know the difference between Democrats and Republicans?
Sun May 17, 2026, 01:23 PM
May 17

Democrats seeing these numbers are horrified.

Republicans seeing these numbers feel a great sense of accomplishment.

IbogaProject

(6,088 posts)
15. Just think of all that contracting profit ______________/s
Sun May 17, 2026, 01:46 PM
May 17

I know this is bad economically as it will shrink our total economic consumption before we consider the missallocation of money by giving those contractor dollars to parties with lower income multipliers compared to the captured.

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