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Friday, January 16, 2026

ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase

      

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... A new report finds the number of people in ICE detention has nearly doubled in Trump's first year back in office, driven by indiscriminate arrest policies that have locked up more and more people without criminal records, "an unprecedented situation for immigration detention." We break down the numbers with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, which published the report. Reichlin-Melnick explains that ICE's annual budget has approximately quintupled, even as 2025 marked the agency's deadliest year so far. Four more people have already died in detention in just the first two weeks of 2026. "Crucially, all of this has been slower than they wanted," he adds. "Their hope was to have over 100,000 people in detention by today; they've hit 70,000." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Trump And His Regime May Be Heading Towards A Legitimacy Crisis

 


Trump And His Regime May Be Heading Towards A Legitimacy Crisis

Congress returns to a series of crises on Monday, and must act with great speed and ambition now


Morning all. A sketch of a post to introduce themes we will be driving next week when Congress returns…..

The bottom line - it’s possible that the events of the past few weeks may be pushing Trump and his rancid regime towards a legitimacy crisis.

Consider:

1 - Public rebukes, no confidence votes, Congressional chaos - Senate roll back of the tariffs; entire Congress voting to force him to end the Epstein cover up; a blow out election; having to defend a +22 Trump seat in Tennessee; Kennedy repeatedly skewered in Senate hearings; MTG’s emergence as an opposition leader; utter chaos on health care and the budget in Congress.

2 - The newly released Epstein emails directly implicate Trump in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, confirm that he and Bondi have been lying and covering all this up, and that Epstein may have turned over compromising information about him to the Kremlin.

3 - Bad economy, higher prices, gutting of health care, rising electricity prices all likely to get worse for Trump in the coming months. Consumer sentiment already lowest in 65 years:

4 - We got confirmation of high level crimes by Hegseth and Noem this week:

5 - Erratic public comments and behavior raising unprecedented concerns about his mental and physical health, fitness to govern:

6 - Deepening understanding of how corrupt and dangerous his selling out to Putin is (see this new jawdropping WSJ story - gift link).

It is now clear as day that Trump has betrayed the country, is UNCONCERNED with the national security of the United States, and can no longer be trusted with protecting us from our global adversaries.

7 - The tearing down of the East Wing, the desecration of the world’s most important symbol of democracy, and his maniacal - and illegal - crusade to build himself a gilded ballroom has become unhinged and monstrous:

8 - Trump and GOP’s poll numbers are collapsing, akin to the aftermath of a major scandal. 4 major polls had him in the 30s this week, 3 at 35%-36%:

  • 35%-62% (-27) ARG

  • 35%-56% (-21) High Point University

  • 36%-60% (-24) Gallup

  • 38%-57% (-19) Econ/YouGov

In the new Gallup poll released yesterday Trump dropped 11 points in the past month, a staggering decline:

Republican support for Johnson and Thune has utterly collapsed:

Here’s the movement they are seeing in their friendly pollsters. Things are no longer fine on the right, nor are they even pretending any longer:

  • 52-46 to 44-49 (-11) InsiderAdvantage

  • 51-47 to 46-53 (-11) RMG

  • 51-49 to 41-49 (-10) JL Partners/Daily Mail

  • 45-46 to 40-51 (-10) TIPP

  • 46-54 to 41-58 (-9) Fox News

  • 46-53 to 42-57 (-8) Echelon

  • 47-51 to 43-55 (-8) Quantus

  • 49-51 to 44-51 (-5) Harvard/HarrisX

  • 45-48 to 41-49 (-5) Emerson

9 - The Southcom Shitshow, Death Threats Against Members Of Congress, Desperate Wagging The Dog In The Americas - Yesterday Trump made it clear that none of this is about stopping illegal drugs from coming into the US:



And if he thinks that somehow invading Venuezuela will change the subject, make him STRONG and MANLY and BELOVED again, he is very, very wrong. An attack on Venezuela is less popular than his handling of inflation:

Not sure the right words to use to describe what we are seeing - desperation, unraveling, collapse, loss of legitimacy. But what I do know is that when Congress returns on Monday it must act with both great speed and ambition to challenge this weakened regime; mitigate the damage they continue to do; and loudly take the side of America and the American people against these corrupt, traitorous gangsters stripping this once great country for parts.

People are pissed, and we need to keep fighting.

Now, Let’s Get To Work People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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