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White House Slammed After Turning Sobbing Woman's ICE Arrest Into AI-Generated Cartoon
The White House initially shared an image denigrating "the alien felon" that shows her cuffed and in the custody of an ICE agent:
"Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking, was arrested by [ICE] in Philadelphia after illegally reentering the U.S. She wept when taken into custody."
You can see the post below.
ICE, along with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, took Basora-Gonzalez into custody on March 12. According to an ICE news release, she had previously been deported but unlawfully reentered the country without authorization.
Her legal troubles began in 2019 when the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested her on charges of attempting to possess and distribute fentanyl. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced in March 2020 to just over a year in confinement, followed by four years of supervised release. ICE deported her to the Dominican Republic later that year, on October 6. It remains unclear when she reentered the U.S.
On the day of her latest arrest, ICE issued a notice of intent to reinstate her final order of removal and secured a federal arrest warrant. She was transferred to the U.S. Marshals Service and will remain in federal custody pending illegal reentry charges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The White House later followed up with an animation depicting a sobbing Basora-Gonzalez in cuffs before an ICE agent.
You can see it below.
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The White House was harshly criticized for its post, which at least one person called "evil."
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia acting Field Office Director Brian McShane said that "the apprehension of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez demonstrates our commitment to protecting our communities from criminal aliens who engage in serious illegal activities that pose a threat to public safety."
Authorities confirmed Basora-Gonzalez’s identity through the FBI fingerprint database. On the day of her arrest, ICE issued her a notice of intent to reinstate her prior removal order. Shortly after, she was transferred to the U.S. Marshals Service following a federal arrest warrant and criminal complaint issued by a U.S. magistrate judge.
She will remain in federal custody while facing charges for illegal reentry after deportation in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
MTG Dragged For Editing Tweet After Accidentally Including Hilariously Anti-MAGA Error
Typically, changing a geographic name involves a lengthy process, taking at least six months as the U.S. Board on Geographic Names consults with states, tribes, mapmakers, and other stakeholders. However, Trump’s order called for the change to take effect within just 30 days, and received significant pushback from news organizations and politicians alike.
Despite the fact that the body of water bordering Mexico, the United States, and Cuba has been called the Gulf of Mexico for over 400 years—long before the U.S. existed—Greene voiced her support in January for renaming it the Gulf of America. Shortly after Trump signed his executive order, she introduced and began pushing a bill to make the change official.
She made clear that the bill is still on her list of priorities in a post on March 25—but acknowledged the gulf's actual name when she said that "Mexican cartels currently use the Gulf of Mexico" for trafficking purposes:
"I’m headed to the Natural Resources Committee to present my bill, the Gulf of America Act, to codify President Trump’s executive order. Mexican cartels currently use the Gulf of Mexico to traffic humans, drugs, weapons, and God knows what else while the Mexican government allows them to do it."
"The American people are footing the bill to protect and secure the maritime waterways for commerce to be conducted. Our U.S. armed forces protect the area from any military threats from foreign countries. It’s our gulf. The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it’s what the entire world should call it."
You can see a screenshot of her original tweet below.
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She realized her error and edited the tweet to make sure she stayed on script, this time referring to it as just "the Gulf."
But eagle-eyed social media users noticed it anyway and called her out immediately.
The Gulf of America fictions were also the mind of Greene's fellow MAGA colleague Lauren Boebert, who made headlines last week for warning Democrats mocking the "Gulf of America" that Washington, D.C., might be next in line for a name change.
After California Democrat Jared Huffman criticized Republicans who've chosen to "rename bodies of water to appease a petulant president," Boebert said she would "caution my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to refrain from making jokes about the Gulf of America because next up may be the District of America that we are working on."
However, her remarks prompted others to point out that the District of Columbia—or D.C., as it's most commonly referred to—is a symbolic reference to Christopher Columbus and the newly "discovered" land he stumbled upon.
