The world—and you—should be shocked by the actions of our current president, who is publicly making a fool of himself and our country, as he meets with Middle Eastern leaders. Many already knew that Trump and his family are receiving great gifts and business concessions from these dictators. This includes a 747 jetliner from Qatar, valued at over $400 million. Just so you know, it would take 3–4 years to make it suitable for a president to use for official business.

The hot foreign gift issue for the Republican Party for years had been that Hunter Biden was getting a couple of million dollars from the Chinese, and that his father was influencing these transactions and also benefiting from them.

The right wing was never able to prove wrongdoing by Hunter or his father.

This administration led you to believe that there was a crisis at the border, claiming that Biden had let into the USA millions of criminals who were raping and killing our citizens. They also claimed that Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang, was being directed by the Maduro government to attack the USA.

The Tren gang came to the attention of the Trump campaign through false information suggesting they were taking over the Aurora housing project and much of Aurora, Colorado. Even though all key Colorado elected officials denied this, Trump and company continued beating this drum, along with their other lie that Haitians were eating cats and dogs.

And recently, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, fired the top National Intelligence Council officials, just weeks after the NIC wrote an intelligence report rebuking some of the Trump administration’s claims about the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

According to a report from Fox News on Wednesday, Gabbard fired Mike Collins, the Acting Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, on Tuesday. Collins and Langan-Riekhof were reportedly accused by whistleblowers of being «radically opposed to the Trump agenda.”

The firings came just a few days after Gabbard’s office authorized the partial declassification of an NIC report that found Venezuela’s government was not directing the movement of Tren de Aragua gang members to the United States, and did not have effective control over the gang’s operations.

The intelligence assessment contradicted the Trump administration’s claims that the gang was «undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States, both directly or under the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela,» as written by Trump in his proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, the same act he used to suspend the due process rights of Venezuelan immigrants.

The NIC report is proof that there was no habeas corpus, meaning there was no body or evidence for Trump to claim he could invoke the Alien Enemies Act.

Nowhere in the records can you find that Tren de Aragua or MS-13 are like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. These are countries with serious accusations of human rights abuses within their own borders and internationally.

No one in the Republican Party is questioning these facts, nor are they requesting to see the laptops of Trump’s children.

Nor has the right wing questioned all the border actions and outlandish statements by Trump and his cabinet that have been false. They should demand a release of their records, which will show their lies are built on lies.

The Trump administration initially said it would deport all undocumented immigrants, estimated by some to be as many as 12 million. This would mean they would have to expel 3 million per year. Right now, it is estimated that the number of deportees by the end of May could be as many as 80,000 to 90,000. Of these, probably 50% or more were deported illegally, without habeas corpus hearings.

Trump has now lowered his goal to 1 million by the end of his first year. This would mean they would have to deport 115,000 per month.

Experts guess that after a year, it is almost impossible for the administration to reach 1 million, and that a more realistic number is 300,000. Not to mention that they are opening the doors to white South Africans, claiming there is a genocide taking place against them—another amazing lie. There is no evidence of a genocide of white South Africans.

At the same time, the media needs to expose all the money being spent on this deportation campaign: internments, foreign imprisonment contract costs (like the one with El Salvador), and the cost of having military personnel deployed at the border. What is the cost of deporting one person? As of today, it is estimated that it could be costing as much as one million dollars per deportee.

So, while the White House touts that they are only deporting criminal and terrorist immigrants, they are profiting from and sleeping with obvious terrorists.

Nowhere will you find that Tren de Aragua or MS-13 are selling arms to terrorist groups like Hamas, or implicated in the deaths related to 9/11, or in the killing of an American journalist.

At the same time, many of our human rights activists do not mention the two gangs used as the tip of the spear for all the Trump anti-immigrant rhetoric. Our friends, by not defending the right to belong to a gang and have a tattoo, are playing right into the politics of the administration.

Gang members have human rights just like the rest of us—and of course, so do all immigrants and refugees.