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.
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
And it being the Russian version doesn’t make it better.
Best thing is the UK and US anti drug commissioner being called the “drug czar”
So basically it means asshole
ICE: Fixed number of people.
Biden: “Focus on the places that want to work with you, like Texas.”
Trump: “Focus on sanctuary cities and places that will resist deportation at all costs.”
Deportation numbers: Goes down.
Trump: “I don’t understand what went wrong?”
ICE: “If we stop publishing numbers, COVID is over! Er, I mean, all the immigrants are gone!”
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.
Wow, they are so close to figuring it out!
Maybe immigration, outside of the Faux Cinematic Universe, was not some major concern?
The GOP spent so many decades carefully manufacturing their lines of bullshit and now Trump is coming along trying to fix their fake problems lmao
Maybe cause the “crisis” was over inflated to begin with? Also cause people generally don’t like this idea in practice.
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.
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?
“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!”A quick google suggests that there are over 400k non-citizens with criminal convictions in the US. Even with such a large number it seems like it would be really hard to locate and apprehend 1,500 of them each day. It’s not like ICE wasn’t trying before! It’s just more ridiculous theatrics. I feel bad for all the normal immigrant families that are living in fear because of this nonsense.
I mean, theoretically the change would be that they would just grab people that were undocumented from the courthouse, right? It’s not like ice is full real government agency. It’s only been around for like 15 years
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.
They keep finding brown citizens instead.
Which is the point.
Which was implied
I half suspect that this isn’t actually about it being “hard.” It’s to say they need more allowances. They’re saying them being “nice” with only their current resources isn’t getting the job done as an excuse to expand their scope and capabilities. This isn’t things getting better. This is the precursor to things getting much worse.
It’s almost like a non-issue.
What’s border czar doing in metropolitan areas? The border is all way over there in the south.
“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.
ICE have been brownshirts-in-reserve from the very beginning.
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.
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.
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…
