New York Times: “Gov. Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks re-election, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have taken on undocumented laborers.”
Tetris Distances Itself From Trump’s Wall-Building Game
“The maker of Tetris criticized a new White House digital game that mimics its classic puzzle by having players build a wall to stop migrants from crossing the U.S. border,” Bloomberg reports.
“Build the Wall is one of five games the White House released this week that inserted Trump administration themes into versions of old-school video games. It asks players to ‘protect the border from the coming horde’ by building a wall with blocks resembling Tetris pieces as pixelated extraterrestrial-like figures approach.”
New York Times: The Tetris Company denounces Trump White House clone of Tetris.
White House Video Games Depict Migrant Captures
“President Donald Trump’s White House on Thursday unveiled a website featuring classic arcade games – but with a ‘Maga’ twist, in which players can deport migrants and build a border wall,”AFP reports.
“One game called Rio Run – an updated version of the game Snake – features a digital version of U.S. border tsar Tom Homan chasing migrants with different skin colours next to the Rio Grande river on the Mexican border.”
“Another game based on the block-stacking game Tetris is called Build the Wall.”
Trump’s New Birthright Citizenship Curbs Halted
“A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out for now the president’s latest effort to impose new limits on automatic birthright citizenship after losing an earlier legal fight before the U.S. Supreme Court,” Bloomberg reports.
ICE Plans to Create National Voting Database
“As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database,” Wired reports.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place. And I’m very ashamed that I did.”
— Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, talking to Piers Morgan after he was deported from the United States.
U.S. Shoots Down Drones with Lasers at Border
“This week, the U.S. Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the U.S.-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were ‘posing a physical threat to U.S. military personnel and CBP partners,’ referring to Customs and Border Patrol,” Wired reports.
Local Concerns Bulldozed by Trump’s Border Wall Plan
“The Trump administration has a blunt message for state and local officials trying to prevent construction of a wall and other security measures along the 2,000-mile southern border: Resistance is futile,” Axios reports.
“Driving the news: President Trump’s envoys recently met privately with officials from Texas border counties where residents have pushed back against construction, saying the plans are unnecessary in rugged landscapes with few immigrant crossings and that they’d harm the environment.”
”The officials were told bluntly at the closed-door meeting with Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott that there would be no negotiating.”
New Emails Show Greg Bovino Was Under Investigation
“Former senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino faced an internal investigation prior to his retirement over his lack of credibility and for making offensive remarks about a federal prosecutor’s Jewish faith,” NOTUS reports.
Mullin Says DHS Could Deploy to Specific Polling Sites
“Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin provided more details Tuesday about the kinds of operations which would see immigration agents enter polling places, as Democrats have worried the Department of Homeland Security could seek to interfere in November’s midterm elections,” Politico reports.
Said Mullin: “The only reason why we would be at polling places is if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant on someone that we have been actively tracking down. ICE’s job is immigration, customs enforcement. That’s their job … if we’re serving a warrant we will be where we need to be.”
ICE Arrests 50,000 People in August
“ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August,” NBC News reports.
“That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.”
Trump Steps Up Immigration Crackdown On Truck Drivers
“Trump administration officials are escalating an immigration crackdown on commercial truck drivers, setting off a new clash with Democratic-led states,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Both the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Department are demanding licensing data across the U.S. about immigrants driving trucks, in a hunt for what they say is a rash of drivers with improper certifications.”
How the Right Could Actually End Birthright Citizenship
Quinta Jurecic: “The conservative legal movement doesn’t consider the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to be the final word on the Fourteenth Amendment. And it already has a playbook for overturning it.”
ICE Deports Afghans and Others to Africa
“Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its ‘third country’ deportation campaign,” CBS News reports.
Jon Husted Skirts Blame for Ad About ‘Dangerous Illegals’
“Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) told reporters Saturday that his campaign had ‘nothing to do’ with his own attack ad against his opponent, former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), which used a family’s highway tragedy to denounce illegal immigration,” Mediaite reports.
British Far-Right Provocateur Deported by ICE
“Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right provocateur and former Yeezy executive, has been deported to the United Kingdom, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday,” the Washington Post reports.
”U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Yiannopoulos on Thursday at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, according to a statement from a DHS spokesperson. The statement referred to him as an ‘illegal alien from the United Kingdom’ who legally entered the United States in 2019 but then ‘chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws.'”
Trump Deportations Take a Bite Out of Fast Food
“The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is eating into sales at U.S. fast-food restaurants, eroding a source of growth the industry long relied on,” the Financial Times reports.
“The vast majority of those targeted for deportation are from Latin American countries — a crucial segment of the fast-food industry, with 35 percent of Latino people in the U.S. consuming fast food on any given day, according to a 2018 study by the health department.”
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students
“A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration violated the Constitutional rights of international students when it sought to deport them for criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza,” the New York Times reports.
“In a 90-page ruling, Judge Noël Wise found that the key legal foundations that the Trump administration had relied on to arrest and deport foreign students were unconstitutional, because Trump officials had wielded them to target students who used their freedom of speech to express opinions that the government did not like.”
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