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Driving the news: The posters — which read "ARRESTED" — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and have the White House's official logo at the bottom.

-The "roughly 100" posters were being placed strategically along "Pebble Beach," where TV news crews do live shots in front of the mansion. A White House official told Axios the intent is for the posters to be visible behind TV journalists reporting from those positions.

-Posters positioned near the West Wing claim to show unauthorized immigrants arrested for "first-degree murder," "sexual abuse of a child," "kidnapping and rape," "murder," "rape of a child," and "distribution of fentanyl."

-Others claim to show people charged with "sexual assault of minors," "sexual contact with a child," and "lewd acts in front of a child."

-The posters describe the arrestees as "illegal aliens." Their names and precise legal statuses aren't included.

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[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

The nazis also kept meticulous records of their victims. This will be turned into a memorial one day.

[–] groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 minutes ago

Can some concerned American do the same in the public area in front of the white House with "convicted" posters of trump and his staff? A week later change it to those who have been "pardoned" by trump... Than J6 who have committed crimes since being pardoned.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like Vlad the impalers strategy to stop investigating further

[–] chonkyninja@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Someone needs to print these with all of his crimes and place them on the other side of the fence.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Need like twenty signs with just trump in the same format: Fraud, Domestic Abuser, Rape, Bribery, etc.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If we're doing felons it's weird that I don't see Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, Rick Gates, Allan Weisselberg, or President and convicted rapist Donald Trump.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

WWMD The wealthy white man defense is a pretty air tight legal argument. Fits in nicely with the narcissist's prayer.

I didn't do it, but if I did it wasn't a big deal. And if it was, you deserved it.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 38 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 42 points 17 hours ago

Anyone who's an actual adult knows that this is not how adults behave.

Now imagine the entire fucking building being full of adults that don't know how to behave like adults. Calling the shots for the most powerful, influential nation on the planet.

Because that's our reality now.

[–] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 117 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

This is not a good sign.

If you're trying to get people to hate and fear people of color I guess you need to show them what color of people to hate?

This has "Mommy Mommy look at my report card" energy all over it.

Disgusting and vile people who try to justify hating those of color with lawn sized fascist trading cards.

We should figure out what company printed all of these and boycott them back to the printing press age.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

This is not a good sign.

I'd say it's about 100 bad signs.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 34 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Exactly. He’s like a modern day Vlad the Impaler.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

there's a more recent and more accurate comp from germany who had a bad moustache inspired by charlie chaplan's moustache. he, individually, is why no one wears their facial hair like that anymore

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

In many ways, absolutely. I was only referring to displaying impaled enemies on pikes along the roads as a deterrent.

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 79 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I would not be surprised if in a month it turns out a bunch of those don't match with the crimes

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 86 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Not only that, but I'm guessing what's printed are the crimes they're accused of rather than anything they've been convicted of.

Anyone can accuse anyone of anything at any time. That's why courts exist.

[–] Sizing2673@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Definitely. There is no more due process in the US

I'm not sure why people keep being surprised by this recently. All of the recent events over the last month tell us there's no more due process

We just found out ICE can come into anybody's home without a warrant, and send them to concentration camps that we pay millions for...

The Nazis are here. We are Nazi Germany right now, for people to ask or be confused on why they are evil or what their motive is, their motive is just evil That's it. And it has to be stopped before it's too late

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I’m guessing what’s printed are the crimes they’re accused of rather than anything they’ve been convicted of.

So Trump's picture should be up there.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically, no. He's actually been convicted of 34 felonies.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, but he has been accused of child sexual assault. As you say, anyone can make an accusation and he has been accused.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

It just says arrested so I'm wagering these guys were never given a trial, just deported to who the fuck knows where.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Or it’s just random people.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Wouldn't be surprised if they were AI generated.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Not only that, but I bet there are a bunch of people here who really are US citizens, and a bunch more who are either here legally, or were until the President canceled their visas just for this stunt.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

They sound like an ai was told to generate 100 different horrable crimes.

Do we know if the same crime text is used twice? It’s weird to talk about minor in one and child in the other.

Whats the legal difference between sexual abuse and sexual contact?

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago

Quick, someone use that same templating and do Trumps 34x felonies. Plaster a bunch of them up in the same area where the ones on the WH lawn can be seen. Bet they'll get taken down real quick.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 17 hours ago

With the way GOPs title people, I seriously doubt all of those accusations.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 51 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

At least it reflects what's inside.

You ever drive past "that house"? You know the one I mean; every neighborhood has one. The one that always has a yard full of signs, banners, flags, etc? The house equivalent of a car covered in bumper stickers, all collectively saying "Stay Away: Crazy Inside"

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 41 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Now do ones with PARDONED across the top

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

Someone should put up Trump's picture and all of his crimes with the heading "AT LARGE".

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago

What the actual fuck

[–] VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

Not even mug shots really. Just close ups of people who aren't white.

No names, no location, no information. Just "Murder" and a photo. It's less than a mug shot.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This is not good, it's the modern day equivalent of parading people down the street so the public can throw rocks or cabbage at them.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That might still become a real thing considering where things are moving.

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[–] Kookie215@lemmy.world 35 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

This is their way of screaming at us "Why are you so mad that we're abducting children and sending American citizens to prison camps, when we've arrested like 10 whole pedophiles?!"

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

We’d prefer they arrest the one in the White House.

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[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 8 points 17 hours ago

Alleged pedophiles

The article is sparse of actual info, so I might be wrong, but these are just arrests. They might have gotten the wrong guys, or just made shit up.

Even if these guys are all pesos/rapists/etc its still a problem he's doing this. The rate of criminality is actuality lower in immigrant populations vs regular citizens so it paints a false picture. But its not even clear this is anything other than (baseless) accusations.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

Trump: "for every sexual crime commited by one of our staff we arrested a guy, justice is done"

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Some should quickly print a sign with the guy who sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and put it there....

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 18 points 21 hours ago

This is screaming for someone to ham it up with some new signs. I would be pretty surprised if no one's done it inside a week.

They wouldn't have to be at the White House, although that would also be entertaining. It could just be the same format and posted literally anywhere.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

Disgusting. I fucking hate this country's government.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 17 points 20 hours ago

Heads on pikes. That's where we're at. Medieval theocracy, here we come

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Very shameful of the White House.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What's next? Heads on spikes? Public crucifixions?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Trump's managed to, in his first 100 days, reach overall public disapproval for pretty much everything other than immigration, so you figure that he's gonna double down on this, since it's his only really winning topic of discussion right now.

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

The very fact that sexual abuse of a minor is being conflated with immigration shows how far we've fallen. This document from the National Institute of Justice shows that the data indicates illegal immigrants have a much lower crime rate than citizens. The issue isn't that they are immigrants, it's that they're criminals. They were presumably committing similar crimes (or at least capable of doing so in Mexico). I'm not any happier knowing that a pedophile is now in Mexico/El Salvador. I want justice and reform. We should always strive for justice and reform. These illegal immigrants aren't the only ones committing these crimes. As I said earlier: largely, it's legal citizens committing these crimes. We need to create a system of justice and reform. We need to be able to handle citizens and illegal immigrants.

Obviously this administration would prefer to take every criminal and push them outside of our borders. Like I said, I don't care if a crime is committed in or out of my borders. I want justice and reform. I want to live in a world where crimes like this are basically non-existent. And I want to live in a world where people with these issues don't become repeat offenders.

Conflating immigration with these types of crimes is just making it harder for us to address the real issues with our justice and reformation system (lack thereof). Not to mention, we are basically just wasting money and time focusing on illegal immigrant crime when the bigger issue is crime being committed by citizens. It's like we cut off our arm, but as the arm fell to the ground one of the fingernails broke. So, this administration is spending all of its efforts on fixing the broken fingernail - and failing to patch the profuse loss of blood coming from its shoulder.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

So can we print out all 1470 convicted and sentenced Jan 6th insurrectionist’s mug shots, each with actual names and crimes (for reference purposes. Don’t want anyone to think these are all fake) and a giant “PARDONED” stamp above them all?

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Wow, that's tacky as shit. Trump has debased the office of POTUS more than anyone could imagine.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

in a country of +300 million, it is easy to show a list of few dozen criminals of any social group

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