A Headline for the Trump Era
Combining two items that will be hallmarks of his second term.
CBS News provides the headline: ICE halts “all movement” at Texas detention facility due to measles infections.
So, we have here the combo that reminds us of the fact that Trump administration is overseeing both mass deportations and a significant increase in measles cases.
In 2025, the United States saw the most measles cases in decades. Overall, the nation recorded more than 2,200 measles cases, including 762 people in a West Texas outbreak, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Two young children died and 99 people were hospitalized, according to state data.
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ICE’s detention population has ballooned under the second Trump administration, which has vowed to stage a deportation crackdown of unprecedented proportions.
ICE is currently holding more than 70,000 individuals facing deportation in detention centers across the U.S., according to government data obtained by CBS News. The vast majority are single adults accused of being in the U.S. illegally. The number is a massive jump from a year ago, when ICE was holding around 40,000 detainees.
And we can throw in a reminder about the detnetion of a 5-year-old.
Dilley is the detention complex where ICE had been holding 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, both detained in Minnesota during an operation that garnered widespread outcry, until the family was released over the weekend due to a court ruling. Liam and his father returned to Minnesota on Sunday.
While on that subject, that reminds me to post the final page of the judicial order that Ramos and his father be returned to Minnesota. The verses reference “But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven,” and “Jesus wept.”
I especially appreciate “With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike.”
The whole order is here, which includes a lengthy quotation of the Declaration of Independence as well as the following:
Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled
power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And
the rule of law be damned.Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Let’s just say that the judge wasn’t too happy with the administration’s approach to all of this.
