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Homan claims 147,000 missing kids

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Al Jazeera reported injuries and arrests during Israeli raids in the West Bank, and said more than 3,300 Palestinians have been forced from homes in Hebron. The factual backdrop is that Putin hosted African leaders at a Moscow summit; the headline itself is a discussion question, not a claim.

Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli election result produced no overall majority, with no party reaching the 61 seats required for a parliamentary majority.

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Al Jazeera reported injuries and arrests during Israeli raids in the West Bank, and said more than 3,300 Palestinians have been forced from homes in Hebron. The factual backdrop is that Putin hosted African leaders at a Moscow summit; the headline itself is a discussion question, not a claim.

Palestinians injured, arrested in Israeli raids across West Bank - This comes as more than 3,300 Palestinians are forced from homes in Hebron as Israel's military offensive continues.

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Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli election result produced no overall majority, with no party reaching the 61 seats required for a parliamentary majority.

Israel election result shows no overall majority as vote count complete - Opposition explores options to form coalition as no party secures the 61 seats required for parliamentary majority.

Original post · Al Jazeera

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BTom Homan is out with a number that could define the immigration fight tonight: a hundred forty-seven thousand missing kids from smuggling cases.
BA hundred forty-seven thousand? That's not a border story, that's a tragedy.
BThe post on X from Jeannie M.M. shares a YouTube clip. She writes that Homan says the administration found that number.
BIf it's real, we've been arguing about the wrong things all week.
BCareful. It's a claim from a clip, not an official figure from an agency.
BSo we just shrug? Homan ran ICE. He doesn't throw numbers like that around lightly.
BI'm not shrugging. I'm saying the post is a claim, not a document. We need the underlying data.
BBut a hundred forty-seven thousand missing kids is too big to ignore while we wait.
BI agree. And there's a real history of unaccompanied minors getting lost in the system after release.
BExactly. If the claim holds, this is the failure of the old approach. Kids handed to sponsors and never checked again.
BBut the post specifically says smuggler cases. That's different from saying they're missing from sponsors.
BEither way, the fix starts with enforcement. Stop the smugglers, stop the flow.
BEnforcement alone won't find the kids already here. That takes sponsor vetting, home checks, caseworkers.
BWho had years to do that and still lost them? That's my point, Bella.
BThe system was overwhelmed by surges. Not an excuse, but it's not fixed by one agency alone.
BNo, it's fixed by making the border so secure that smugglers can't profit.
BAnd I keep saying: you can secure the border and still have a functioning child-welfare system. It's not either-or.
BFine. But let's start with Homan releasing the list. If the number's lower, I want to know.
BIf it's higher... God help us. But right now it's an unverified claim, and we should say so.
BSpeaking of immigration and elections, Mickey Mack on X wants non-citizen voting to carry ten years in prison and deportation.
BAnd any American helping them, twenty-five years.
BI don't hate the principle. Only citizens should vote. But the sentencing split is interesting.
BInteresting? I think it's backwards. The person casting the illegal ballot gets ten, the helper gets twenty-five?
BThe citizen knows exactly what they're doing. The non-citizen may have been misled or confused.
BStill, twenty-five years is longer than some violent offenders serve. That's a quarter of someone's life.
BFor deliberately helping someone vote illegally? That's an attack on the whole system.
BI'm not saying it's not serious. I'm saying the person who actually votes illegally should get the heavier sentence.
BTen years plus deportation isn't exactly a slap on the wrist.
BNo, but the post's logic is that the assistant is the bigger threat. I don't buy it.
BI do. Election fraud is often organized. The organizer is the one who should be made an example of.
BBut federal law already bans non-citizen voting. This is a proposal for penalties, not a gap in law.
BRight, and making the penalties severe is how you deter future attempts.
BWe can argue about severity without pretending this is an epidemic. Documented cases are rare.
BRare isn't zero. One illegal vote undermines trust. People want it enforced.
BI just wouldn't put a citizen away for twenty-five years while the non-citizen gets ten. That's my take.
BAnd I'd rather the organizer face more. We can disagree and still agree elections need tighter verification.
BA world away, Israel's final election count is in. No party has the 61 seats needed for a majority.
BAl Jazeera reports opposition parties are already exploring coalition options. This is the update on the story we had earlier.
BThat means weeks or months of negotiations, and no clear mandate for anyone.
BSmall parties will now extract huge concessions. Every seat matters.
BFor Washington, that's a problem. A fractured coalition can't make hard calls on Iran or defense.
BIt could mean a unity government or another election. Israel's been through this cycle before.
BAnd a fragile government there means a less predictable ally here.
BThat's exactly the kind of instability this region doesn't need right now.
BWatch who gets the first chance to form a government. That will tell us where this goes.
BIf the opposition can't pull it together, we're back to square one.

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