'First-degree murder after deliberation'

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, another rebuilding effort is underway in New Orleans. The Big Brothers Big Sisters mentorship organization is relaunching in the Big Easy for the first time since they were forced to close in the wake Hurricane Katrina. Kalli Christ has been the CEO of BBBS in the wider area of Acadiana […] The post ‘Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Returns to New Orleans After 20 Years Being Closed By Hurricane Katrina appeared first on Good News Network.

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they could always do almost anything they wished. By the 1970s, nonprofit universities had dropped pretenses that they were apolitical and nonpartisan. Instead, they customarily violated the corpus of iconic civil rights legislation by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring, and promotions. Graduation ceremonies became overtly racially and ethnically segregated. The same was true for dorms and “theme houses.” So-called “safe spaces,” in the spirit of the Jim Crow South, reserved areas of campus solely for particular races. Affluent foreign students often openly protested on behalf of designated terrorist groups like Hamas. First-Amendment-protected free speech all but vanished on elite campuses. Any guest speaker who dared to critique abortion on demand, Middle East orthodoxy, biological males dominating women’s sports, or diversity, equity, and inclusion dogmas was likely to be shouted down, or on occasion roughed up. University administrators either ignored the violence done to the Bill of Rights or quietly approved when their rowdy students were turned loose on supposed conservatives. But in their hubris, the universities began a series of blunders that may now end them as they once were. They began gouging government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation by grabbing anywhere from 30% to 60% of individual campus grants as “overhead.” Yet they usually charged most private foundation grants a far more modest 15% surcharge—as if a lax government did not object to overcharging. They pushed for a vast expansion of the student loan program, whose portfolio of federally guaranteed loans reached $1.7 trillion. But once the federal government guaranteed student loans against default, universities began jacking up their fees and tuition well above the annual rate of inflation. Elite universities did not grasp that the more they began warping their curricula with DEI gut courses, radical green agendas, and postmodern race and gender theories, the less time they had to offer students their once gold-standard general education curricula of Western Civ, history, literature, philosophy, math, and science. Soon employers started to notice that the new therapeutic courses were also married to race and sex-based admissions. The SAT and ACT were, for a time, dropped. So were comparative rankings of high school grade point averages. Soon, once iconic degrees were no longer any guarantee of the ability to write and speak well, think analytically, or compute competently. Employers often began to prefer graduates from those state schools where DEI was muted, admissions were competitive, and teaching remained rigorous and non-ideological. Finally, after Oct. 7, 2023, growing antisemitism on campuses became unapologetic, overt, and violent. Thousands of Middle Eastern guest students brazenly cheered on Hamas terrorists. The campus Marxist orthodoxy that Jews and Israel were “victimizing white people” and Palestinians were noble “non-white victims” ensured that Jewish students were chased and physically attacked on campuses. A disgusted public watched invertebrate administrators either greenlight the antisemitic violence or ludicrously deny it. So, there was bound to be a public reckoning. And now it has arrived. Congress will soon pass legislation that will tax the annual multimillion-dollar income from multibillion-dollar endowments at somewhere between 15% and 20%. There will be no more “overhead” or “surcharges” on government campus grants allowed larger than 15%. Those two reforms alone could cost some of the richest campuses nearly a half billion dollars a year in lost income. Racially offensive DEI programs will disqualify schools from federal support. Foreign student guests who break U.S. laws or violate university rules will have their visas yanked and be shown the door to go home. Campuses will have to abide by the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the Bill of Rights or forgo federal funds. All these remedies enjoy broad public support. For the first time in memory, a majority of Americans disapprove of current higher education. Only 10% of Americans believe an Ivy League degree translates into becoming a better American worker. In a nation of declining fertility, smaller numbers of youths choosing college, and a federal government $36 trillion in debt, universities have very little leverage. They can return to the original mission of offering rigorous, meritocratic, and disinterested education, guarantee constitutional protections for all on campus, and slash their vast administrative bloat. Or if not, they are free to continue as they are, ensuring only further mediocrity, public dislike —and eventual irrelevancy. (C)2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Is the Jig Up for Elite Higher Education? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed a bill Wednesday to define sex-based terms in state law and prohibit biological males from entering female-only spaces in public schools, colleges, and correctional facilities in the state.  “Today, we sent a strong message that West Virginia stands with women,” Morrisey said in a press release. “West Virginia will not bow down to radical gender ideology—we are going to lead with common sense, and the Riley Gaines Act does exactly that.”   The act (SB 456), named for the former college swimmer-turned female sports advocate, adds a new article to state code to define “male” and “female” based on biological sex. The bill also effectively brings uniformity to state law regarding sex discrimination and ensures the protection of sex-segregated spaces such as locker rooms, changing rooms, rape shelters, and correctional facilities. Sponsored by West Virginia Senate President Randy Smith, a Republican, the bill received bipartisan support in the Legislature.  Gaines was present at the signing of the bill and affirmed her support of the legislation.  “Under Gov. Morrisey’s leadership, the West Virginia Legislature has executed his priority of defining sex-based words and protecting women’s spaces. … I look forward to celebrating this win along with West Virginian women and girls,” Gaines said.  West Virginia is now the 12th state to sign such legislation banning males who identify as females from women’s and girls’ female-only spaces, which follows a legislative model outlined by Independent Women’s Voice, a nonprofit policy advocacy group.  Adaleia Cross, a West Virginia high school athlete, said she was grateful that Morrisey and the legislature prioritized common-sense protections for girls in the state.   Cross is being represented by attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom in an ongoing legal challenge to the Biden administration’s re-interpretation of Title IX, which was an attempt to force women’s sports to accept males who identify as female. Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or educational program that receives federal funding. The re-interpretation defined “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identity” and has since been reversed by President Donald Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”  “Because of a policy that allowed a male athlete to use the girls’ locker rooms and restrooms at my school, I was exposed to sexual comments and had no choice but to change in a bathroom stall out of fear of being exposed to males in the locker room,” Cross said. “Men and women are biologically different, and men don’t belong in girls’ spaces. Denying this truth only harms women and girls.”  Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Sara Beth Nolan commended the governor and legislators for their leadership.  “States have a duty to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of women and girls,” Nolan said. “Letting men intrude into girls’ spaces where they are most vulnerable … is an invasion of privacy, a threat to their safety, and a denial of the real biological differences between the two sexes.”  The post West Virginia Governor Signs Bill Protecting Female-Only Spaces appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump said the Justice Department is “turning the page on four long years of corruption and weaponization.”  Trump spoke Friday when delivering remarks at the Justice Department for an event focused on fighting fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has become an escalating problem in the United States.  Trump said during the Biden administration, the DOJ was weaponized against political opponents, and “set loose violent criminals and went after patriotic parents.” After being targeted by a string of Justice Department investigations during the Biden administration, Trump vowed to make the department less political and focus on fighting violent crime, including fighting illegal drug cartels.  Trump said the Biden Justice Department “broke the law on a colossal scale.”  “In the end, truth won and freedom won,” Trump said.  However, Trump’s Democrats in Congress have insisted that Trump is likely to weaponize the Justice Department to retaliate against political foes. This is a breaking news article and it will be updated The post What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In a speech Friday at Vantage Plastics, a plastics manufacturing plant in Bangor Township, Michigan, Vice President JD Vance touted American workers and the progress the Trump administration has been making to make American manufacturing great again. “We are an administration that is going to do things for the American people and for American workers,” he said. Vance warned that the administration would be paying close attention to U.S. interests. “So, if you’ve gotten rich the last few decades by ripping off U.S. companies and preying on American workers, well, the president is simply telling you the jig is up,” he said. The vice president criticized the neglect of previous administrations when it came to offshoring, rather than preserving, American manufacturing jobs. “For 40 years, the people of this country, the businesses, the workers, everybody, have been neglected, they have been ignored, and they have had a leadership that refuses to stand up for them,” Vance contended.  The former Ohio senator said that the era of apathy for the plight of American workers is over and that the new administration would be guided by the America First principle. “We are going to be guided by a very simple principle: Build in this country, we cut your taxes, we reduce your regulation, we reduce your energy costs,” Vance explained. The vice president was introduced by Kelly Loeffler, the administrator of the Small Business Administration. The SBA recently announced that it would be launching a manufacturing initiative that would cut $100 billion in regulations.  The vice president didn‘t hesitate to promise that there would be significant consequences for American businesses that continued to strengthen the U.S.’s foremost foreign policy adversary, the Chinese Communist Party, by offshoring manufacturing jobs to the communist nation. “If you want to manufacture in China, which has the worst and most punitive economic policies towards us anywhere in the world, then you are going to have to pay the consequences,” Vance explained. The vice president highlighted the importance of being able to produce domestically, because it reduced reliance on potentially hostile powers, such as China, by cultivating self-reliance.  “Being able to make things is good, because it creates self-sufficiency as a nation, and it creates self-sufficiency in our people,” Vance noted. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. saw firsthand the problems of outsourcing supply chains to China when the Chinese government began hoarding the masks that country had made.   Vance also detailed the many accomplishments of American workers over the past several decades.  “American workers famously won the Second World War. American industry took us to the moon. It enabled the silicon revolution that created the most precise and sophisticated jobs imaginable in any field, demanding mechanical expertise on the scale of nanometers, which is so small you can’t even see it,” the vice president told the Michigan crowd.  Vance assailed the Biden administration for its failures to deliver affordable prices for necessities, such as food and housing, while simultaneously ballooning the national debt at an unprecedented rate. “They left us with sky-high prices. They left us with home values that had doubled in just four short years; meaning, a lot of American families couldn’t afford to buy or to rent a home. They left us with a historic debt crisis,” Vance said. Under the Biden administration, federal spending reached 100% of gross domestic product, a number not reached since the immediate aftermath of World War II.  “What did all that spending, what did all that waste and fraud get us? It got us an economy where Americans couldn’t afford to buy a home, our families couldn’t afford to buy groceries, and our people felt like the American dream was slipping away,” the former Ohio senator concluded.  In the first two years of the Biden administration with Democratic majorities in both chambers, Congress spent more than the last two years of the Trump administration than occurred during the height of the pandemic.  Still, the vice president ended on a hopeful note. “And I feel invigorated that we finally have a president who is turning his back on 40 years of failed policy in Washington, D.C., and is getting back to investing in, and fighting for, the American worker. God bless you guys,” Vance said. The post Vance Vows Accountability for Offshoring of Jobs appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Joy Reid is Ready to Burn MSNBC's House Down

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Former co-host of ABC’s The View, Rosie O’Donnell got her desperately needed dose of public attention recently after she announced that she left the United States and moved to Ireland because Donald Trump was president. The bonkers move from the insane 9/11 truther was lauded during Friday’s episode by co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro as rational. “So, our former co-host of The View, Rosie O’Donnell, has a long-standing feud with Donald Trump that dates back years before he became president. And now that he's back in power, she’s just made a drastic move,” announced Friday moderator Joy Behar ahead of this stitched together soundbite: ROSIE O’DONNELL: I'm here in Ireland. [Transition] Although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that's what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old. [Transition] And I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back. “Oh no, he's going to be mad at Ireland now. Here comes the potato tariff,” Behar mocked. Hostin responded by calling Trump “a toddler,” and suggesting, “His frontal lobe is not really fully developed, in my opinion. And so, he probably suffers from that imposter syndrome.” Later in the segment, Hostin again proved herself to be a sore loser, because – according to her – since Trump won the election, it meant America’s “democracy” “doesn't seem to be working right now.”     “It doesn't seem to be working for everyone,” she further whined. She also huffed that O’Donnell was “one of the few people that can pick her life up and move it somewhere.” “Most of us are stuck here,” she exclaimed. In 2023, Hostin claimed China was a better country for black people to live in because “[America is] putting more black people in jail here.” She also praised how she felt safer in Africa. “I felt real good in Ghana,” she touted. As a multi-millionaire, Hostin and her family certainly have the means to leave the U.S., but the likely reason she couldn’t was because of the fact that her surgeon husband was swept up in a massive RICO investigation for insurance fraud. The other member of the cast to throw their full weight behind endorsing O’Donnell’s self-imposed, attention-driven exile was Nicaraguan immigrant Ana Navarro: [I]f you’re Rosie O’Donnell, who he hates…and you are listening to him threaten Liz Cheney and looking at him go after law firms, and you are listening to him saying he's coming back to be the retribution, and you know how ruthless and vicious he is , and that he personally hates you, and you have a 12-year-old with special needs, and you want to bring her up in a place of love and peace, and you have the resources and ability, then you make the hard decision of leaving, good for her. “It’s good that she's fought her entire life, she's putting herself first. I’m very supportive,” Navarro proclaimed. While co-host Sara Haines didn’t come out strongly for either O’Donnell leaving or staying, she did tout America. “I would absolutely believe that this country is imperfect and progress is slow, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else,” she said. The other purported conservative at the table, Alyssa Farah Griffin also talked up America and busted the liberal fantasy of Europe. “I think Americans love to think we're so far behind and Europe is so progressive and ahead of us. It's just not really the case,” she argued. “We're the one where you're most likely to come in from one socio-economic class and in your lifetime be in a completely different one. This table doesn't exist in a lot of Europe.” While Hostin scoffed at her and claimed America was “pretty racist,” Farah Griffin declared that America “still is the greatest nation on Earth.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 14, 2025 11:03:25 a.m. Eastern (…) JOY BEHAR: So, our former co-host of The View, Rosie O’Donnell, has a long-standing feud with Donald Trump that dates back years before he became president. And now that he's back in power, she’s just made a drastic move. Watch. [Cuts to video] ROSIE O’DONNELL: I'm here in Ireland. [Transition] Although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that's what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old. [Transition] And I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back. [Cuts back to live] (…) 11:04:15 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: Oh no, he's going to be mad at Ireland now. Here comes the potato tariff! Why can't Trump let this go? This has been years now. He's still got -- as the Italians go, over here for Rosie O’Donnell. SUNNY HOSTIN: Can you remind us what it is that she said about him or did to him? Because it's almost like -- You know, he's a toddler. His frontal lobe is not really fully developed, in my opinion. And so, he probably suffers from that imposter syndrome. (…) 11:06:30 a.m. Eastern ANA NAVARRO: But I do know, that if you’re Rosie O’Donnell, who he hates – and in fairness, she hates him, it's mutual – BEHAR: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. NAVARRO: - and you are listening to him threaten Liz Cheney and looking at him go after law firms, and you are listening to him saying he's coming back to be the retribution, and you know how ruthless and vicious he is , and that he personally hates you, and you have a 12-year-old with special needs, and you want to bring her up in a place of love and peace, and you have the resources and ability, then you make the hard decision of leaving, good for her. It’s good that she's fought her entire life, she's putting herself first. I’m very supportive. (…) 11:07:55 a.m. Eastern ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: So, I do think it's important just to remember that America's bigger than the president. And I want to acknowledge especially the LGBTQ community may feel uncomfortable in certain states right now. I just talked to Kara Swisher on our podcast yesterday about this. And I get if you have the means and you want to make that decision. But I also remind folks, I think Americans love to think we're so far behind and Europe is so progressive and ahead of us. It's just not really the case. BEHAR: No. FARAH GRIFFIN: We remain the most ethnically diverse nations on Earth. We're the one where you're most likely to come in from one socio-economic class and in your lifetime be in a completely different one. This table doesn't exist in a lot of Europe. On LGBTQ rights issues we are about as advanced as most of Europe. SUNNY HOSTIN [While grimacing]: We’re pretty racist too, though. FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, we have way more diversity, though, which is a good thing. And when you're a completely homogeneous nation like Denmark – [Crosstalk] BEHAR: But you know what? That's why people are upset because we like this country. We want to stay the way it's been. FARAH GRIFFIN: But that’s my point though. This country is bigger than whose president for four years. I just think it's important people remember -- there are places I wouldn't be able to get IVF treatments in Europe. Like, we put a lot— Love my European friends, but we put everyone on kind of this pedestal and act like America is so backward and broken. BEHAR: Who does that? FARAH GRIFFIN: I think this still is the greatest nation on Earth. HOSTIN: It's a young democracy that doesn't seem to be working right now. So, I do think – FARAH GRIFFIN: I believe more in America than Donald Trump's ability to ruin it. BEHAR: I hope you’re right. HOSTIN: It doesn't seem to be working for everyone. And I think that's Rosie O’Donnell’s prerogative and that’s her point. It doesn't work for her family and she is one of the few people that can pick her life up and move it somewhere. Most of us are stuck here! SARA HAINES: I would absolutely believe that this country is imperfect and progress is slow, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. BEHAR: All right. We got to go.

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski tried to put a negative spin on how successful President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has been, but was then contradicted by reporter Julia Ainsley who pointed out that there has been a dramatic drop in illegal border crossings. Brzezinski set up the segment by with a tone of trying to embarrass President Trump by hinting that he had failed to fix problems during his first term that he has recently been complaining about. The words "If it's broken, why didn't he fix it?" displayed on screen. She specified the problems with the Social Security Administration and USAID spending, and then, as if to suggest that Trump should also be ashamed of how he has handled immigration compared to President Joe Biden, she proceeded to highlight recent findings that Trump deported fewer illegal aliens in February 2025 than Biden did in February 2024: "And then there's President Trump's claims of being tough on undocumented immigration while suggesting former President Biden was weak on the border. But now, new exclusive reporting from NBC News shows Trump actually deported fewer people last month than Biden did one year ago." On screen viewers could see an online article by reporters Ainsley and Laura Stickler titled, "Trump deported fewer people than Biden a year ago, but border crossings have plummeted." After bringing aboard Ainsley to discuss her findings, co-host Joe Scarborough brought up the lower border crossings as she posed: "And, Julia, two different stories going on here. One is that deportations are lower but, also -- as you also have reported -- border crossings have plummeted." The NBC News reporter began by suggesting that Trump is failing to keep his campaign promises on deportations. She then got to what should have been the lead -- that Trump has drastically cut the number of illegal border crossings very quickly, although she failed to specify any numbers to illustrate just how impressive the results have been: A big reason for that drop, though, and why it's lower under Trump than it was under Biden is because Customs and Border Protection are arresting fewer people at the border. It's much easier to deport people right after they've crossed. We have a pathway there called "expedited removal." Biden used this, too, where they're basically deported very quickly rather than being in the United States and facing that years long backlog in immigration courts. And so it's easier to deport them if they're arrested by border patrol. By contrast, when MSNBC anchor Jose Diaz-Balart had Ainsley on his show the day before, he was more forthright in displaying on screen that border apprehensions in February were just 8,326 compared to 189,913 in February 2024, and noted that, in a typical year, most of those deported just recently crossed the border. In her appearance with Diaz-Balart, Ainsley also admitted that, under Trump, ICE has been arresting illegal aliens at twice the rate as under Biden. And, in her appearance on Morning Joe, she had also noted that the Mexican government, fearing tariffs, has been using its military to keep migrants away from the U.S. border. And in a Wednesday afternoon appearance on Chris Jansing Reports, Ainsley informed viewers that the overwhelming majority of immigrants arrested by ICE since Trump took office have either been convicted of a crime or have pending charges, which contrasts with the liberal media narrative that half are not criminals. Out of 32,809 arrested, it was shown on screen that 14,111 were convicted criminals while 9,980 had criminal charges pending. Transcripts follow: MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart Reports March 11, 2025 11:29 a.m. Eastern JOSE DIAZ-BALART: NBC News has exclusive reporting, ICE agents deported fewer people last month than during the same month a year ago under the Biden administration, and it comes as February's border crossings marked the lowest month since records began 25 years ago. NBC's Julia Ainsley joins us now. Julia, good morning. What more did you learn? JULIA AINSLEY: Well, this is interesting, Jose, because we've heard those arrest numbers that you've just put up. Those were the border numbers. And we know that's something the Trump administration has really been able to boast about. They've been able to arrest 20,000 migrants. That's an over 110 percent increase since Biden's monthly average, and then, of course, you have those low border numbers there, but when it comes to deportations, that's been something that's been really hard to figure out. And, of course, that's what Trump ran on -- not mass arrests but on mass deportations. And my colleague Laurie Strickler and I -- we got exclusive data from ICE that showed that actually in February 2025, there were around 11,000 deportations. In February of 2024, there were over 12,000 deportations. Now, that seems like a small number, but when Trump campaigned on millions and millions being deported. It is significant to show exactly how successful they've been. Now, some of the reasons why those numbers aren't higher and why they were higher under Biden is because more people were crossing the border. So deportations included people who were stopped by CBP at the border where it's easier to find immigrants and arrest them than in the interior of the country and be deported. So that's one thing. The other, of course, is that they haven't been able to deport people as quickly as they would like mainly because of a cash issue. They haven't been able to find the detention space to be able to hold and deport as many people as they're arresting. DIAZ-BALART: Yeah, I mean, Julia, the fact that many, if not most, of the deportations traditionally occurred at the border when they crossed over, if there are very few or almost none -- no one crossing over, you know, that's going to be -- take a -- to hit on the numbers. ... (...) MSNBC's Morning Joe March 12, 2025 6:49 a.m. Eastern MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Last week, during his joint address to Congress, President Trump falsely claimed tens of millions of dead people over 100 years olds. Listen to a part of what he said. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. (editing jump) But a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does -- and it really hurts Social Security and hurts our country. BRZEZINSKI: Now, according to the White House transcript, you heard the President said, quote, "...it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does -- and it really hurts Social Security..." "Nobody does" what? "Anything about it"?  Well, if a dead 100-year-old was receiving a check in 2025, it stands to reason that, back in 2016, when Trump was President, that same 91-year-old would also have been receiving a check. Why didn't anyone do anything about it back then? Or when President Trump rails against USAID, calling it "wasteful" or part of a "liberal agenda," back in 2017, his own administration requested $37 billion for the program, saying it "...prioritizes the well-being of Americans" and "advances U.S. economic interests." Was it a liberal agenda back then? And then there's President Trump's claims of being tough on undocumented immigration while suggesting former President Biden was weak on the border. But now, new exclusive reporting from NBC News shows Trump actually deported fewer people last month than Biden did one year ago. Joining us now, the reporter behind that story, NBC News senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainsley. Also with us, the host of Way Too Early, Ali Vitali. JOE SCARBOROUGH: And, Julia, two different stories going on here. One is that deportations are lower but, also -- as you also have reported -- border crossings have plummeted. JULIA AINSLEY: Yeah, so what's going on here, Joe, is that we've heard a lot about the fact that border crossings have gone down, and arrests have gone up, but it's been really hard to get our hands on data about deportations. And, of course, Trump campaigned on mass deportations. In his inaugural address, he said he would deport millions and millions. He never campaigned on mass arrests. And, as we've reported here, not everyone who gets arrested by ICE gets deported. Some of them are released, some of them are not detained -- not deportable -- and so, as it turns out, there's actually fewer people who were deported in February 2025 -- the first full month of Trump being in office this term -- compared to February 2024 under Biden. A big reason for that drop, though, and why it's lower under Trump than it was under Biden is because Customs and Border Protection are arresting fewer people at the border. It's much easier to deport people right after they've crossed. We have a pathway there called "expedited removal." Biden used this, too, where they're basically deported very quickly rather than being in the United States and facing that years long backlog in immigration courts. And so it's easier to deport them if they're arrested by border patrol. (...) Also, Mexico is doing a lot. Mexico does not want tariffs. They're in a position where they're trying to do a lot to cooperate with the U.S. on immigration and to combat fentanyl, so they've increased interdictions as well. That's also bringing the numbers down at the border. But I do think it's important that we continue to look at this data on deportations because it's something that they're not putting out. This is something that we obtained here at NBC. We also found that over half of those who were deported were noncriminal, which of course goes against what the Trump administration said they would do by focusing on the worst of the worst for deportations. ALI VITALI: Yeah, Julia. That bucks the promise that you and I were talking about last week when you were here with more reporting on this topic.... (...) MSNBC's Chris Jansing Reports March 12, 2025 2:02 p.m. Eastern JULIA AINSLEY: Another thing we learned is the number of arrests since Trump took office has been about 33,000 -- just under that -- and about half of those are convicted criminals. You can see there those with pending criminal charges and then those who are only violating immigration laws. The other thing I have to point out, Chris, the number they did not say even though we asked this repeatedly, is how many people has President Trump actually deported since he took office? That's something we've reported here at NBC News. We were able to find that, in the month of February, only 11,000 migrants were deported while, in the 2024 February, there were over 12,000 migrants deported. A big reason for that of course is the drop at the border, but it also shows that Trump has not been able to deport as many migrants as he promised.