Catherine Austin Fitts:
"[ICE is] not rounding up the hardened criminals...93% don't have violent felony records...[and]...we are in danger of setting terrible precedents...[for] warrantless searches on citizens...[and]...detain[ing] them in complete violation of due process."
This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (
@solari_the), is taken from an episode of the Children's Health Defense (
@ChildrensHD) series Financial Rebellion posted to Rumble on October 16, 2025.
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"We were sold the argument that what we're going to do is we're going to focus on hardened criminals and identify those people who have come across with the cartels who are doing illegal activities, who are hardened criminals. Cato just published a study showing that 63% of the people being rounded up by ICE, as of this summer, are don't have felony records, and 93% don't have violent felony records. So whoever we're rounding up, we're not rounding up the hardened criminals.
"And so the question is, what is the point of this? What is the point of doing warrantless searches on citizens? What is the point of specifically claiming that you haveā creating a theater and then claiming you have opposition, which is not really serious? In other words, watching a game going on, and I would suggest to you it is not a legitimate enforcement of immigration.
"Now, here's what's interesting, when I talk to people, and I just came through and did a series of events in Tennessee. When I talk to people, they're like, 'Yeah, this is great. We're getting those illegal immigrants out.' Well, first of all, there are 30 million illegal immigrants in the country. if you round them all up and send them back to the countries that they came from, the entire US Economy will implode. That's number one.
"And if you look at the logistics of rounding up and sending 30 million people home, it's not going to happen. And that was one of the reasons we said we were going to focus on closing the borders and then rounding up the hardened criminals and sending them back. That's not what's happening. That is not what's happening.
"If you look at what's happening, what's happening is I think we are in danger of setting terrible precedents that make it easy to round up, do warrantless searches on citizens, and round up innocent people and basically detain them in complete violation of due process. So if you look at how these techniques are and can be used on on citizens, this is not okay, what is happening."