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.
I would not be surprised if in a month it turns out a bunch of those don’t match with the crimes
I would not be surprised that the images are ai generated, since there’s no information on the individuals to look them up and fact check.
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.
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
So Trump’s picture should be up there.
Ironically, no. He’s actually been convicted of 34 felonies.
Yes, but he has been accused of child sexual assault. As you say, anyone can make an accusation and he has been accused.
It’s a complicated situation, lol, and I can see both sides of it.
As for that being “a taste of his own medicine”, I agree.
Ultimately, though, I feel putting a picture of an actual convicted felon alongside photos of people who are highly likely to be only accused of crimes sends the wrong message and gives them the implication of guilt.
Depends how you look at it, I guess lol.
Why not both? Put up posters of him with all/each of the allegations, and stamp CONVICTED across each of those. Since the immigrant ones don’t have the stamp, just like some of the Trump ones, the distinction is made.
I think my conscience could live with that. Even more so if we can stamp “UN-CONVICTED” on all the other ones.
That would be a very elegant solution.
It just says arrested so I’m wagering these guys were never given a trial, just deported to who the fuck knows where.
Or it’s just random people.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they were AI generated.
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.
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?
This is all obvious theater and many of these are just pics of these people. No way to tell if they’ve actually been arrested before or if it’s just random security footage, but the text differences might be that different states have different terminology. What classifies as rape or molestation or contact or anything else can differ from place to place. It might still be AI, but it’s not unusual for the same crime to have different names depending on where it was committed.
Considering that they’re making completely unsupported allegations re: Abrego Garcia, I have no trust whatsoever that they did more than elementary school research into the crimes they’re attributing, and assume that nearly none of them are supported by court convictions.