In the first 100 days of the Trump admin, ICE averaged 665 arrests a day. 3,000 a day, a 450% increase, is an INSANE number for them to demand now; genuinely, truly, the stuff of madness.
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- lay off a significant fraction of the federal workforce
- oh hey look ICE is the only branch that's hiring and conveniently here are all of these people who've already passed the civil service exam desperately looking for jobs
They're already detaining people who show up for scheduled immigration hearings and are dropping their kids off at school. How exactly are they supposed to find another 2300+ people/day?
Actually investigate and stuff, rather than grab at low-hanging fruit? The danger is the risk of abuse toward detainees who are finally apprehended after eluding capture for some time, in a “made me run after you” kind of way.
This is designed to cause chaos in the streets. Look at the reactions from local communities so far…now multiply that by 5, every single day. Not to mention the disruptions in the workforce & the ripple effects that will cause. And even MORE citizens & legal residents will be caught up in the sweep.
So basically, legislative is supposed to be our proactive/preventive branch (by making laws that protect us) and it’s currently held by co-conspirators in treason that are completely corrupted…
The flights/ overseas contracts in hell hole countries have to be funded somehow and all the players need their cut. The human "widgets" must be procured for this by any means necessary. This is why they are pushing for an end to habeas corpus, they cant afford to have us challenge detentions
These people are just evil. Think about the tactics they will employ to pull this off. Insane is the appropriate word for all of it. I want the crazies out of our government.
Even at 3000 per day (unattainable) it would take 18 years to get the 20 million (their number, not mine) out of the US. Supposing that not a single one managed to get in in those 18 years. Ridiculous.
Approximately 30% of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workforce consists of veterans.
This means that a significant portion of ICE agents have prior military experience. The exact number is not specified, but it's a substantial percentage.
So far using the line "I'm a citizen fuck you" has worked like 80% of the time, I suspect it's going to go down to 30-40% effective by this time next month.
NotALawyer, but I suspect that anyone who even guesses they may be facing those circumstances should make multiple copies of their birth certificates, passports, and/or immigration documents, and keep them all in a safe space
That guy you mentioned here? He was eventually released. He’s no longer still in custody. His experience was undoubtedly terrifying, but it did still matter that he had proper documentation, even if these goons took a while to realize it.
Many more mistakes will be made, some deadly, all with the potential to destroy the lives and livelihoods of thousands of immigrants who have followed all the rules.
They’ll have to arrest every legal immigrant and naturalized citizen just to make quota. Throw in some homeless people without ID to make the numbers more rounded.
Trump’s MAGA Republican base includes millions of Nazi-Sympathizers who hate Jews and all People of Color. These racists, led by life-long racist Donald Trump, are trying to convert the USA into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy. SCOTUS is complicit in the effort.
Trump’s MAGA Republican base includes millions of Nazi-Sympathizers who hate Jews and all People of Color. These racists, led by life-long racist Donald Trump, are trying to convert the USA into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy. SCOTUS is complicit in the effort.
How?
They're already picking them up at their immigration hearings.
Where TF are they going to find over 1,000 more immigrants every single day?
This is going to lead to more legal immigrants, as well as some US citizens, being disappeared.
The problem is that their numbers were never based in facts. There just aren’t that many criminal immigrants. We need immigrants to help this country run smoothly. It’s all so stupid.
The problem is ICE is full of people that think like American bald eagles and so they look in places an American bald eagle would think to be. Once they change their grindset mindset, a lot more people will be found and America will be saved. I predict we reach ~150 million total by 2031 (humbly).
There's also the little issue of cost, which they always seem to ignore.
ICE budget is about $10 billion per year. They'd have to at least quadruple that for 3K a day. But 3K/day is only 1 M/year. 20 M in Dumbo's term would mean quadrupling that again, a $160B annual ICE budget.
This all sounds sooo familiar..remind me again what happened when the Nazis became frustrated with the low numbers of deportations and many not leaving on their own...there is something I remember, a term maybe..something about a "solution" 🤔
they want to pressure the ground troops into more open, more violent roundups to show up on Fox Not-News that they're winning the war on "The Other". They want the intimidation and the fear to seep everywhere.
It seems insane unless you accept the idea that they're attempting to goad people into protesting and pushing back, ideally (from their POV) with violence, so they can declare martial law.
The arrests to date haven't accomplished that. They're escalating to provoke riots they can then crush.
Been having the same suspicion, now amplified by the House budget bill astronomically increasing funds for ICE and CBP—the folks they’ll use as enforcers, as they are being trained up as brown shirts now.
That is crazy! 😳😳😳 so they’re basically hunting down people, or “find” at all costs even though most of these individuals are literally in the process of gaining citizenship…
IF you happen to follow @jjindc.bsky.social 's daily tracker of ICE flights here, it's not beyond the realm of reason, a LOT more folks are bring secreted all over the world at an alarming rate.
Keep in mind that the 665 arrests a day that ICE averaged in the first 100 days came AFTER they already deputized thousands of other federal LEOs to carry out immigration arrests, including FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS, USPIS, and more.
There's no possible way this happens. But the chaos will get worse.
Deputizing LEOs with zero experience in immigration enforcement has probably made this target harder to reach: they have to learn "on the job", they are likely bitter and demoralized that they've been pulled from terrorism investigations and such, etc.
They will be the Brown Shirt Nazi's. They will terrorize all of us! Who these people are is extremely important. They are the guilty ones. The ones who put ppl in cattle cars for the last ride of their lives.
There is no doubt that $ will be funneled to these efforts regardless of Congressional appropriations. They will also find any goon or thug to carry out the arrests. The only significant constraint seems to be where to house those arrested. The Supreme Court MUST uphold due process.
Also absolutely clear (and should be to judges overseeing cases involving ICE and Homeland) that trying to achieve such numbers cannot possibly involve giving those arrested due process. The denial of rights isn't just deliberate, it's the key part of the policy.
And they will arrest people who are in the country legally, people who were born in the US and have citizenship, based on skin color, and remove them without due process, and without recourse since the government doesn't honor court orders. Nazi Germany conditions.
And already the attendance in my classroom is usually 11-12, roster is 20. My immigrant families are afraid to bring their children to school. The myriad repercussions of this regime are and will be legion.
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- oh hey look ICE is the only branch that's hiring and conveniently here are all of these people who've already passed the civil service exam desperately looking for jobs
This is in no way an unachieveable number.
So, despite the cruelty, the illegality and the stupidty, it is also ineffective if they want to hit eleventygazillion deported.
And it will lead to “waste, fraud and abuse.”
https://bsky.app/profile/palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social/post/3lqadu3jvlk2i
also - it demonstrates why ICE are hanging around courts where hearings are happening. low hanging fruit
no surprise scummy policies from scummy people incites scummy actions
The people who work for ICE know what they are doing. They have no recourse to "only following orders" as an excuse
I would not discount the theory he is trying to change the law so he can be president for ever
If we already know ICE et al have violated rights - can there be (or is there) a pre-ruling that forces them to uphold due process?
Can we be proactive instead of reactive? Or do our courts only have ability to respond once wrongdoing has occurred?
Awesome.
and no due process is being followed
isn't this by definition, human trafficking?
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This means that a significant portion of ICE agents have prior military experience. The exact number is not specified, but it's a substantial percentage.
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They'll just say it's fake.
They're Nazi and will do things like the historical Nazi.
That guy you mentioned here? He was eventually released. He’s no longer still in custody. His experience was undoubtedly terrifying, but it did still matter that he had proper documentation, even if these goons took a while to realize it.
They're already picking them up at their immigration hearings.
Where TF are they going to find over 1,000 more immigrants every single day?
This is going to lead to more legal immigrants, as well as some US citizens, being disappeared.
She runs out mid June of the budget year ending in September....
I know we lawyers aren't great at math lol
ICE budget is about $10 billion per year. They'd have to at least quadruple that for 3K a day. But 3K/day is only 1 M/year. 20 M in Dumbo's term would mean quadrupling that again, a $160B annual ICE budget.
Insane.
The arrests to date haven't accomplished that. They're escalating to provoke riots they can then crush.
ICE is absolutely shameful and disgusting 😡
There's no possible way this happens. But the chaos will get worse.
Who they are and where they live is important.
It won't be people they're supposed to get but that doesn't bother them currently.
LEOs have made clear they don't give a fuck about doing this work other than hiding their own identities while doing it.