I assume a lot of these stories are not by design — not “hey go pursue the LPR-applicants married to Americans” — but just ICE going after the easiest things they can — whoever comes to their attention — without caring about actual dangerousness or priorities.
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Folks are gonna dunk on the Trump voter and I get that but don’t sleep on the more disturbing part of the story:
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ice only exists to harass the soft targets like women and children/families
"Oopsie"
It seems crazy that the so widely quoted number of 10-20 million could be based on nothing.
However, the absolute bullshit statistics around organized retail theft survived and thrived for years without question.
They're not deporting the numbers tRump wants, because his exaggerated numbers about illegals isn't factual.
What he says is often a lie, exaggerated or delusional.
To make up for those low deportation numbers, they're going after anyone and everyone they can put their hands on. 😡
My father recommended that a club whose board he served on install max-volume rock on burglar alarm.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/01/27/trump-team-focuses-deportations-on-immigration-numbers-not-criminals/
Next, they go after legal visa holders and strip their visas.
Then green card holders. (We are this stage)
Finally, citizens.
Because ICE is too scared to go after the violent criminals and drug traffickers and gangs.
And they want to get the deportation numbers up fast, so they waste our tax dollars on easy or unconstitutional pickings.
Need to follow more former ICE people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtz-w0Xouo
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deporta...
Local police, FBI, etc. in their best forms have a role in protecting the community and, once they've succeeded at that, can blend in as community peace officers.
The sole purpose of ICE is deportation. They will deport *anyone* regardless of actual risk.
before I figured out that the street I turn off of to get to mine
is a convenient route from the police station to the freeway
and a cop lived on the next block :-)
It’s the plan.
Actually curious because I don't know - aren't federal law enforcement legally required to present credentials? And if so why do ICE feel they should be allowed to operate anonymously?
It sounds like a lot of them are hanging at airports and seizing all non-citizens.
And isn’t keeping us safe the federal government’s Job One?
ICE already apoears to be transforming into the Gestapo!
Bonus points to those of us who listen to historians, read books, watch documentaries.
It's all there. There are no new playbooks, tbh.
Worryingly, the low[est] hanging fruit will always be at risk when there are targets or other types of performance indicators to be reached (see also, for eg: police).
It’s DISGUSTING!!
They should be sent to Guatemala or Rawanda.
Shrugs. "They'll turn up eventually." Some spent years at their own public addresses!
So low hanging fruit like easy-to-find law abiding people already in their system are going to be 100x easier to snatch up and detain, especially in airports, than random undocumented living in the shadows.
But there simply aren't many dangerous foreign nationals in the US, and the few that are here are hard to find. So.....
There were never "millions of violent criminal illegals" to deport, so they're simply going to grab whoever they have the address of.
Team stupid says it’s because Trump’s ICE is lazy and stupid and arrest the ones easiest to find.
Team evil says it’s because this incentivizes undocumented folk to engage in other crimes.
No, easier for ICE to scoop up the grandma or the kid with cancer and just tell Fox News they’re gangbangers
Then you can be guaranteed that there are performance metrics. And that things like promotions within ICE are going to be based on how productive you are in making arrests and detentions.
The US will be extremely isolated.