'Coming down': Trump vows to dismantle billboards pushing rights for illegal immigrants if he wins

Former President Donald Trump is vowing to extremity nan usage of payer costs to erect advertisements successful Texas offering thief to nan friends and family members of forbidden immigrants successful national custody.

"Kamala [Harris] is now moving advertisements adjacent nan Border advertizing FREE Legal Services for Illegal Alien Criminals. When I win, nan advertisements are coming down, and nan Migrant Gangs are going home!" Trump said connected X.

Fox News reported this week that nan Department of Homeland Security’s Office of nan Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO) has group up advertisements successful Texas saying: "Your relative successful migration custody has rights, we’re present to help."

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Border Patrol picks up a group of asylum seekers from an assistance campy astatine nan U.S.-Mexico separator adjacent Sasabe, Arizona, connected Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

The OIDO is an independent agency group up to assistance immigrants pinch complaints astir imaginable violations of migration detention standards. It besides provides oversight of migration detention facilities. It was established successful 2019.

The DHS says it was established by Congress pinch a "mandate to independently analyse migration detention to beforehand safe and humane conditions, including addressing complaints related to nan conditions of noncitizens successful migration detention."

However, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol sources show Fox News they are furious astir nan ads, fixed nan ongoing pressures connected backing owed to nan situation astatine nan confederate border. 

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Despite that backing squeeze, money is being spent connected signs that they spot arsenic moving against them and that they person described arsenic "insulting."

Trump is not nan only leader to beryllium infuriated by nan billboards, pinch aggregate Texas lawmakers expressing outrage to Fox News.

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"The news that DHS is utilizing payer money to motorboat advertisements advocating ‘rights’ for individuals successful ‘immigration custody’ should beryllium alarming because it’s a preview of nan ineligible arguments that extremist progressive democrats will usage to reason against deportation of nan millions dumped successful America by Biden-Harris-Mayorkas," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said.

A advertisement on an interstate successful Texas and paid for by nan Department of Homeland Security advertises assistance to forbidden immigrants. (Fox News)

"Time and again, we’ve seen DHS put an unfastened borders schedule up of its ngo to safeguard American families," Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, said. "Whether it’s FEMA splurging hundreds of millions of dollars connected migrant lodging aliases OIDO moving ads for illustration this, our authorities is hemorrhaging money connected nan incorrect priorities. It’s clip for Congress to propulsion nan plug connected programs for illustration these."

The contention complete nan advertisements comes arsenic migration has rocketed to nan apical of voters’ priorities for nan 2024 predetermination aft a monolithic separator situation that started successful 2021.

The Biden management has said it needs much backing to hole what it says is simply a "broken" migration strategy and, on pinch Vice President Kamala Harris, has pushed for a bipartisan separator information measure introduced earlier this year.

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The management says a statesmanlike bid successful June has led to a 55% driblet successful encounters, but critics person noted that comes aft historical highs of encounters successful anterior years.

Trump has pledged to motorboat a wide deportation run and reconstruct Trump-era separator policies for illustration wall building and nan Remain-in-Mexico policy. Both were ended by nan Biden administration.