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Report: Trump Administration Deported 13K to Mexico

Is this a cruel violation of human rights or a necessary enforcement saving lives?

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Report: Trump Administration Deported 13K to Mexico

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Above: A woman trying to visit her husband, a detained immigrant, is denied visitation in New Jersey, May 26. Image credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images)

The Spin

Anti-Trump narrative

The Trump administration deported thousands of children — many of them toddlers — to countries they've never even lived in, stripping away any chance at due process. Cubans, Colombians and Venezuelans are being dumped in Mexico and Congo despite court orders protecting them, left without shelter, medication or legal status. This is a deliberate policy of cruelty that treats human beings as cargo.

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Pro-Trump narrative

Border Patrol apprehensions are at their lowest level in 55 years, overdose deaths dropped 35% and fentanyl trafficking has been decimated — these are the real results of tough enforcement. Deportation agreements with Mexico are a necessary tool to remove people whose home countries refuse to take them back. Strong bilateral cooperation is saving lives on both sides of the border.

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