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.
What a colossal waste of resources.
The Final Solution too in Germany was a colossal waste of resources, in fact made them lose the war way faster. It completely undermined the entire German war effort.
Logistically speaking, yes.
Imagine conscripting 12M people and then getting your professional army to just kill them instead. Why didn’t they go for some kind of service ensures citizenship, send them to the worst areas like Stalingrad. Still awful but then might have helped the war going on.
You know what, I don’t need to give Hitler tips.
It’s because of their ideology. To Hitler’s government, the extermination of the Jews as well as the mentally/physically challenged, the Roma, and all kinds of LGBTQ was seen as being as important as knocking France out of commission, bombing Britain to capitulation, or destroying the Soviet Union. The Holocaust wasn’t seen as some side project, it was an actual war goal and taken as seriously as anything else in the war.
Don’t look for it to make sense, little of Nazi ideology makes sense.
On one hand, there’s an implied admission of boundaries in denying mass raids.
On the other hand, past tactics would imply that the only concern is overcoming the boundary, not submitting to it.
They’re regrouping. They know the collective lack of attention span is an asset they can leverage.
Well, if they were documented it would be easier….
What’s border czar doing in metropolitan areas? The border is all way over there in the south.
Daily arrest is a KPI to be gamed soon, rich MAGA people, who profits on this narrative, can just pay Mexico gangs to send some people in to get arrested.
I hate the use of the word czar in this context, my pedantic historian brain knows it means “Caesar” and the meaning makes no sense
Best thing is the UK and US anti drug commissioner being called the “drug czar”
So basically it means asshole
And it being the Russian version doesn’t make it better.
This read like the bomber gap that JFK went to win the election on, turns out there was a big bomber gap, but in the reverse…
Maybe cause the “crisis” was over inflated to begin with? Also cause people generally don’t like this idea in practice.
Don’t you love it for your lunch break in the local quick serving restaurant to be interrupted by armed men yelling at everyone and then you get to go back to work distressed and hungry?
I remember seeing recently that they found 3 of the names who got sent to Guantanamo. 2 of the families they found and asked and both said they presented papers from their embassy showing their family members weren’t criminals.
The number of people who are going to be sent to fill quotas over actually having ever done something horrible is going to be staggering
Sooooo just like the regular US Prison system.
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“Man I’m having a hard time finding the
JewsMexicans I volunteered to sign up to round up. Was I swindled into obeying a fascist state? Nah, must be the Mexicans who are sneaky, they can cloak!”You know, normal, thoughtful, people would take that as a cue to re-evaluate their position… Maybe it’s difficult to find them because they don’t fucking exist?
We’ve all seen this movie before.
The next line starts with “then they came for”
They are a scape goat. It doesn’t matter if they exist or not if they can sell the narrative.
Crime could be at record lows but they’ll say “Crime is so high, we need to send in police until crime comes down.”
They know full well it’s a lie, but they know enough people won’t double check them and take them at their word. In their minds crime is at an all time high instead.
I commented the gun numbers the other day. Its fairly obvious that red states have much more violent crime when it comes to guns. Surely their propoganda doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Edit: Deaths per 100,000 people by gunshots
Mississippi 29.4 Louisiana 28.1 Alabama 25.7 New Mexico 25.3 Alaska 23.6 Tennessee 22.2 Arkansas 22 Montana 21.7 Wyoming 21.6 Missouri 21.4 Oklahoma 20.1 South Carolina 19.3 Georgia 18.8 Arizona 18.7 Nevada 18.5 Indiana 18.4 Kentucky 18.4 Idaho 18.2 West Virginia 16.8 Colorado 16.7 North Carolina 16.7 Kansas 16.3 Texas 15.1 Ohio 15 Utah 15 Maine 14.1 Oregon 14.1 Florida 13.9 Virginia 13.9 Michigan 13.8 Pennsylvania 13.6 Illinois 13.5 Washington 13.1 North Dakota 12.9 Wisconsin 12.7 South Dakota 12.5 Maryland 12.3 Vermont 12.1 Delaware 12.1 Nebraska 10.7 Iowa 10.6 New Hampshire 9.7 Minnesota 9 California 8 Connecticut 6.2 Hawaii 4.9 Rhode Island 4.8 New York 4.7 New Jersey 4.6 Massachusetts 3.7
I still feel that the lower violent crime rates in neolib states has more to do with them having a semblance of public support services.
Not much, but high amount by US standards.
Everyday crime (not hate crimes etc) has much to do with addiction and poverty.
Agreed, which is why social programs are very important. Cutting snap benefits will only increase crime and hurt farmers.
I’ve complained about gun culture being the biggest issue leading to gun deaths before. I’m not a huge fan of gun control as a lot of the left discuss it and my issue with labeling gun laws “common sense” causes a dissidence in people heads where anyone disagreeing not having common sense.
But the rhetoric of “fuck around and find out” and “come and try that here” underpins a thought process that guns are an acceptable solution to problems. And not just acceptable, but on equal footing with other solutions such as running away, defusing or de-escalating the situation, discussions, and compromises. It’s where you see things like Kyle Rittenhouse or “You’re Fucked” being inscribed on the AR used in the murder of Daniel Shaver in Mesa, AZ by the police.
Whereas I believe guns are the final solution to a problem. And imo, one that we all should be reticent to use but ultimately have available to us. They are to be used as a last resort to threats against life and liberty.
The gun culture, mixed with the propaganda of everyone everywhere being a potential threat to you is a leading cause of gun violence.
Yeah, throw in people blaming entire groups of people and blaming much of the world’s problems on them and next thing you know you hear comments like “we should hang every one of those people.”. “Run! ICE is coming.”
Those are comments I hear coworkers saying while on the clock, the second one yelled out the window of a work truck at a group of Hispanics working construction. The first because he thinks listening to conservative radio at work is a good idea. And they make the biggest reaches, and brought up a possible trans person in India that may have been planning a school shooting. And that was what warranted them saying we should hang all the trans people. It’s like they don’t understand at all that these people are born every day, and the only reason he hates them is because that conservative media is trying to find examples all across the globe and shove it down their throat daily.
It will only get worse too. As you opress migrants and groups like trans people, eventually you back them into corners so small that they will have to last out more, and the media will spin those actions as the reason they were backed into the corner in the first place.
Oh yea. I’m angry and upset that any acts of defiance will be used as justification for the indiscriminate persecution of entire sections of society.
The systemic marginalization and abuse of vulnerable groups will lead to acts of violence. Which will lead to more marginalization and abuse.
The only way to prevent this is to break the system and embrace these groups.
As a gross oversimplification analogy, but one that any parent should be able to understand. The more you try and control a teenager and suppress who they are the more they will act out and rebel.
And it’s so fucking weird to me to see all this hate. I grew up around migrants, I’ve worked closely with trans individuals and non binary folk. I have never seen the violence or hate or any of the problems the conservative hate propaganda speech about these people.
Because they truly are just people who want to live their lives and be who they are. They all have dreams and aspirations. They want to provide for their families. They want to love each other and be loved in return. They want the same for you and me. They don’t have any agenda to do harm.
Is everyone perfect, no. Do some people cause issues? Sure. But that has nothing to do with race or sexual or gender identity. People in general can be shitty, and you’ll find them in all walks of life.
As an parallel, I was watching PBS’s American Experience about the American Coup in Wilmington, NC in 1898. They shared articles from white supremacists which sounded so eerily familiar to the rhetoric spewed on Fox News and other right wing media outlets. It’s such a tired playbook, but it’s so frustrating how effective it is.
Isn’t that just a list of states by poverty.
That’s never been an issue for the MAGA people. See also: trans people being any kind of problem to anyone.
Anyone got a guide on, like, how to modify modern houses to build secret rooms to hide people?
I hate to say this, but I guess well need to be hiding people in our houses to protect them from ICE like the Germans his Jews to protect them from the gestapo.
Better to start the construction now
Depends on the house. We could easily hide quite a few people under our floorboards. It’s quite cramped if you were to hide there but a removable hatch under a rug, then the underside area can have a false wall that someone can hide behind. Throw a few piles of porn mags down there so it looks like it’s stuff you want hidden from your partner.
The fucking cry baby should raid the farms in the rural red run welfare counties. I do not give a shit if the ICE agent is not vaccinated for the measles, send their asses.
Maybe he should give up and quit this farce completely. Instead of what you suggested.
Because what you suggested just hurts more innocent people so that you can feel smug and point and say “i told you so”.
We get it. some dumbasses voted against their communities and their own self interests. Im fighting this battle every day with so many people. But why on earth would you advocate that more people get caught up and hurt by these policies? Because they “deserve it”?
We are supposed to be better than that. We are supposed to make the world better. Not be vindictive assholes about it.
-sincerely, a farmer from a rural red run welfare county.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. The red voters had their chance, failed to learn and the USA is being torn apart by a bunch of lunatics.
Weaponizing immigrant lives to hurt others is literally the signature move of the trump supporters you despise.
And you advocate for exactly that. Disgusting.
You are the same sort of person as them. You just wear a different colored hat.
They problem is they’re looking to enforce these policies and only hurt the blue states. Notably NYC where they just wiped their asses with the constitution so they can have the federally indicted mayor under their control. Case was dismissed without prejudice so the if the Mayor doesn’t destroy people’s lives, they can bring back the case. All so they can have video (probably hosted be “doctor” Phil) of people’s lives being destroyed to satiate their hateful audiences.
If the red states don’t feel any consequences, this won’t end. They won’t have any empathy for people elsewhere.
My point is, if you are suffering, and watching your neighbors and friends suffer, do not wish that suffering on the people who arent your neighbors and friends just because of the consequence of proximity.
Its very human to make the easy assessment of “the other” and what they think, feel, and deserve. They are faceless and far away. Who cares? But… The OP was literally wishing ill on immigrant families to hurt their own opponent. Using immigrants as pawns to justify their opinion and position. Using people to hurt other people. Sound familiar yet?
Fuck that opinion. I will not abide.
They keep finding brown citizens instead.
Which is the point.
Which was implied
