The White House lawn was lined with around 100 mug shots of alleged illegal immigrants who have been arrested and the crimes they allegedly committed, as Donald Trump tries to draw attention to his actions during the first 100 days of his second term.

The names and exact locations of the individuals are not on the posters, which line “Pebble Beach,” where television crews typically do live shots in front of the White House—among their alleged crimes are sexual offenses and murder.

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    7 hours ago

    If I go to a prominent government building, and there’s posters of people on row, my first thought would be that these are either candidates or the freshly elected officials.

    [looks closer and squints]

    Ah, being a foreigner I don’t know much about the details of American politics, but these must be the “Senate”, right? A drug lord here, a kiddy fiddler there.

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    21 hours ago

    Yes because Mugshots are done in cars, outside, in hallways, and only occasionally with a flat white background. We all know this.

    Seriously though, only some of these are actual mugshots, often they seem to just be pictures of accused people with no fucking names attached so there is no way to fact check it.

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      21 hours ago

      you’re hung up on the word “mugshots” while i’m sitting over here wondering how hard they must have tried first to have heads on pikes and got denied.

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          i say this without sarcasm: it’s not hard if you’re not american.

          the last time i was in the US, it amazed me how ubiquitous Fox News is everywhere. like, in your cafes, in your bars, in your casinos - it’s fucking everywhere. the rest of us realized how horrible they were a long, long time ago.

          that said, i know that a good solid majority of Americans are fully against what’s going on. so i’m not knocking you insomuch as just pointing out that the rest of the world isn’t being glazed constantly.

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    22 hours ago

    *accused immigrants. *innocent immigrants.

    remember: they are innocent until due process happens.

    fun fact: the white house is ignoring said process because they are fascist.

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    19 hours ago

    Trump: outright threatens to become a dictator, praises Hitler, steals and sells classified documents
    News headlines: Allegedly a tiny bit naughty

    Trump: Posts random photos of possible kidnapping victims and labels them with heinous crimes sans-trial
    News headlines: ILLEGALS

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    Lol, this is some grade-A country Karen bullshit. I don’t think I have ever seen a bigger little bitch baby than Trump. I’ve seen some big ol’little bitch babies in my day but, damn son.

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    Trump is scared about his polls on immigration and he likely wants whitehouse protesters to protest with this in the background.

    A lack of due process has broken through, and he’s freaking out.

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      I suspect that as Nate Silver says, Trump is doing this sort of thing because he wants to fight about immigration rather than his other, less popular policies - he thinks he has the public support to win on immigration.

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        Yeah, he might be trying to do that.

        He might also be trying to turn his polling on immigration around. All this shady deportation stuff has pushed him underwater on immigration. Americans were majority positive when it was all about slowing crossings, but they’re not down with deporting documented people, deporting people without judicial review, accusing people of gang crimes because they’re brown and have tattoos, or throwing people into gulags.

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    22 hours ago

    Cheap, angry teenager, toddler antics … all coming from someone who is demanding respect.

    I expect to see cheap theatrics like this from my deranged neighbourhood far right racist promoter

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    Could the opposite lawns be posted with pics of the 10:1 or more ratio of authority and clergy that commit the same crimes?

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    Don’t like that the news articles are accepting the framing of “illegal immigrants” in the headline when the names etc are unknown. Sure thats what the white house says they are, but they are not trustworthy