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Jim Justice floats scaling back of deportations
Just the News ^ | September 30, 2026 | Ben Whedon

Posted on 09/30/2026 12:48:50 PM PDT by Gunslingr3

Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.V., this week broke with the Trump administration over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, suggesting that the agency scale down its deportations.

“Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you're dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don't know that we need to be doing that stuff,” Justice told Politico.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: deportations; squish

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Are they going to go with the donors, or the voters?
1 posted on 09/30/2026 12:48:51 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

When is he up for election?


2 posted on 09/30/2026 12:53:26 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians )
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To: Gunslingr3

Deport Jim Justice.


3 posted on 09/30/2026 12:54:13 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Hear, hear!


4 posted on 09/30/2026 12:54:54 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Gunslingr3

“you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” Justice told Politico”

Actually we do.


5 posted on 09/30/2026 12:55:46 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Gunslingr3

Don’t tell me Senator Justice, we need a good ole fashion GWB style amnesty masquerading as a “guest worker program.”


6 posted on 09/30/2026 12:56:58 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Gunslingr3

He is the Trey Gowdy

So all-talk.


7 posted on 09/30/2026 1:01:03 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Gunslingr3

WEAK SISTER or Chamber of Commerce Republican?


8 posted on 09/30/2026 1:01:53 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Jane Long

I love it when the establishment Republican Chamber of Commerce julep-sippers out themselves.

“Julio was such an excellent caddy and this new white boy actually expects fair pay!”


9 posted on 09/30/2026 1:03:39 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Hell must certainly be an over-crowded place.)
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To: Gunslingr3

The Senator seems unaware he’s interfering in a military operation.

Choose your lane, Senator.


10 posted on 09/30/2026 1:05:30 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Jim Justice ... member of the Bush League of Open Borders RINOs.


11 posted on 09/30/2026 1:06:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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lived on your street corner for 15 years

That'd be the fault of the government that didn't deport them 14 years ago.

12 posted on 09/30/2026 1:08:23 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: TheDon

Everyone that’s here illegally is fair game. When I ran a fugitive team with ICE we ran into non criminal aliens all the time. It’s not like you could just ignore them.


13 posted on 09/30/2026 1:08:57 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: Gunslingr3

Not living up to his last name


14 posted on 09/30/2026 1:10:33 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Gunslingr3

And the GOP wonders why they are going to lose bigly in the midterms. Unbelievable.


15 posted on 09/30/2026 1:10:37 PM PDT by E Pluribus Bellum
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To: Gunslingr3

SENATOR, do you believe in the rule of law, or not?

Before you issue any more statements about immigration, why don’t you disclose how much campaign money you have taken from the immigration lobbies.

WE WANT THE BORDERS CLOSED AND ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED!


16 posted on 09/30/2026 1:17:06 PM PDT by Bryan24
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So because the gov’t didn’t do their job 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3 years ago...that’s means they get to stay?

Try that with murder. If the gov’t doesn’t catch you in 10 years...you’re free.


17 posted on 09/30/2026 1:17:09 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: Gunslingr3
from Imgflip Meme Generator

18 posted on 09/30/2026 1:18:46 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal (1<i>)
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To: Gunslingr3
530,000 Haitians lost their TPS status.

Only 540 have been deported.

19 posted on 09/30/2026 1:19:59 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Gunslingr3

Remember when a good conservative congressman named Alex Mooney announced that he was running for this Senate seat in West Virginia (Joe Manchin’s former seat)....

....and the GOP establishment (led by a guy named “Trump”) went into complete panic and recruited this RINO asswipe to oppose him?

Because how dare a solidly Republican state like West Virginia even have ONE actual conservative Senator?

That can’t be allowed, apparently.

It’s stupid shit like Justice’s remarks which makes some people think that the GOP richly deserves the major whipping they are going to receive in a month. The problem is: the alternative is far worse. But the Republican party seems to be on a desperate mission to get as many of its voters as possible to stay home this year. With Democrat enthusiasm at “11” (Spinal Tap reference), the GOP can’t afford any voter apathy at all; instead they are doubling down on maximizing it. Every idiotic comment like Justice’s gets some number of voters to say “f**k it”.


20 posted on 09/30/2026 1:24:38 PM PDT by PermaRag (Facts, context, and more facts)
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