Summary
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, admitted that finding undocumented immigrants with criminal records has been difficult, requiring full ICE teams for field raids.
Arrest numbers, around 14,000 in Trump’s first month, are below the administration’s 1,500-per-day goal.
Homan blamed sanctuary cities for not cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. He vowed to increase enforcement teams and denied mass school or church raids, though ICE may target specific criminals.
The administration has stopped publishing daily arrest figures, despite a drop in immigration arrests since November.
“Well, we’ll just have to scoop up random brown people, I guess. Gotta keep those numbers up.”
“Papers please.”
I wonder how long before that actually happens - weeks or months?
It’s been happening for years
And recently in some communities, ICE agents are going door to door and molesting people at schools and churches.
Not sure about molesting, but once in Arizona I was jogging and took a turn through a hilly golf area and someone called the cops. Was not carrying an ID and had to wait for someone from Davis Monthan AFB to vouch for me before I could be released.
I’m definitely using the term broadly, it doesn’t always mean to sexually assault, basically they’re just being fucked with for simply existing or going to church or school. That being said, I wouldn’t put it past them if given the opportunity, ICE is at least that morally bankrupt.
Sorry to hear that you got fucked with for daring to go near “the white land”, they’re pieces of shit like that.
Gotta ask, it sounds like you are a veteran or family of one. Did they even change their attitude towards you once they knew? Or did they get mad because you ruined their fun?
Well no, there attitude did not change on the grounds that you can serve, but that doesn’t make you a citizen, so they did not know what to do - Stop and Frisk was used to stop “non citizens”… but they also didn’t know that South Korea wasn’t part of South America so I’m not dealing with the most cultured people here.
I figured as much, I was just wondering if it made any difference since in general law enforcement tends to worship the military. Don’t get me wrong, you certainly should respect voluntary service, but the way they do it… Ew.
ICE have been brownshirts-in-reserve from the very beginning.
Not surprised, unfortunately - saw the news headlines about the restrictions on schools and churches being removed.
It has been happening. My Eastern European friends don’t go anywhere without their passports right now and my Latin American friends have shifted all their behaviors. You don’t need to wonder if it will be weeks or months, you need to be wondering how long ago it started
Ugh, I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t live in the US, so I have not seen this.
Well for the Latin American friends it started in the Bush W admin, and for the Eastern European friends it’s a new wrinkle that started when we put a kremlin puppet in the oval office. One of those friends is even a US Citizen who worries about being made stateless if ICE decides to deport her while she’s out and about. With any crisis anywhere else, always assume the crisis is worse than you can see because the people it’s happening to aren’t able to speak on it because they’re desperately trying to survive
Thats how most police departments in white countries prop up their numbers. You are short on your quota? just go to the train / long distance bus station and frisk everyone who looks like his ancestors were born south of the alps.