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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we're back to cherrypicking 10 or 11 criminals out of the tens of thousands rounded up.

Where to even start with the logical and rhetorical fallacies?

- fallacy of cherrypicking, fallacy of selective evidence, anecdotes are not data...

- fallacy of hasty generalization, drawing broad, sweeping conclusions based on a small and likely unrepresentative sample

- fallacy of guilt by association, asserting that an entire group is guilty, that they are all dangerous, violent criminals because they were swept up with a few who are

- fallacy of appeal to fear (argumentum ad Metum), attempting to sway opinion through fear and exaggerating threats

These are classic, well known propaganda tactics frequently used throughout history to dehumanize and vilify entire large groups by highlighting and amplifying isolated individuals and incidents.

[b]I don't think anyone here is opposed to locking up or deporting individuals who are actual dangerous, violent criminals.[/b]  But what we should ALL oppose is the poster above's dishonest tactics of fear mongering and vilifying broad swaths and entire groups.[/quote]

Clearly, the sanctuary jurisdictions are against it.  Some of these criminals have lengthy rap sheets and they are still walking the streets.  
So, while these are anecdotes.... there are HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of them out there.  [/quote]

You are still flailing, leaning into fallacies, propaganda and fearmongering.  You have no evidence that there are "hundreds of thousands" of murderers and rapists and cannibals or even dogs-and-cats eaters.  [/quote]

Judging from the number of criminal illegal aliens already arrested by ICE in places like Fairfax County, Boston, LA, NY, and other sanctuary jurisdictions, I would say hundred or thousands of criminal aliens is an underestimate.  They have arrested around 2800 just in LA.  
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-08/federal-arrests-in-la-are-accelerating-homeland-security

And, then there is VA....
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/virginia-immigration-arrests.html
Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests
Nearly 3,000 people were arrested by ICE in Virginia in the first five months of 2025, on par with numbers in a much larger state like New York.
The majority of ICE arrests have taken place in the Northern Virginia suburbs or in the Richmond metropolitan area. Roughly twice as many arrests have taken place in Fairfax County — the wealthy, densely populated and strongly Democratic county outside Washington — than in any other county in Virginia.

And, as of June 2 they have made 1500 arrests in Massachusetts. 
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-federal-partners-arrest-nearly-1500-illegal-aliens-massachusetts-during
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal law enforcement partners apprehended almost 1,500 illegal aliens during a monthlong enforcement operation focusing on transnational organized crime, gangs and egregious illegal alien offenders throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During the enhanced operation, named Operation Patriot, officers from ICE Boston partnered with the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the ATF, the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Coast Guard to arrest 1,461 illegal alien offenders throughout the month of May.

And, in NY..
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-law-enforcement-partners-arrest-more-200-alien-offenders-during-enhanced
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-federal-partners-arrest-133-alien-offenders-during-enhanced-operation-new-york
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-more-80-during-5-day-enforcement-action-new-york-city-hudson-valley-and[/quote]

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