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No later than 60 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily.
Holy shit this is bad. There’s already tons of reports of the already expanded ICE field personnel calling detainees “Mexican bitches” and not following well-established law and law enforcement laws and procedures. At least with local law enforcement, you still get some people joining because they’re true believer types that want to really protect and serve. Not everyone, sure, there’s plenty of asshats in local enforcement, but there’s always a few boy scout types that put on the uniform thinking of helping grandma cross the street and stopping actual bad guys instead of shooting minorities. Nobody who wants to do good in the world is going to be joining ICE right now. It’s basically MAGA welfare; get paid to be a gun carrying shitheel whose only qualification is being able to spot brown people. He’s effectively making a gestapo here.
I’m not in any way defending this. This is going to get people killed, including people who are here with legal status. Likely even citizens.
They don’t appear to be accepting just anyone off the street, though. The order talks about deputizing existing law enforcement officers as ICE agents.
The Gestapo were evil but not stupid. The closest equivalent to ICE in Nazi Germany would have been the SA.
That’s a good point. The gestapo didn’t have large numbers either did they?
People in America don’t really know the difference, but we do learn about the Storm Troopers/Brownshirts, and the SS. The Gestapo was kind of lumped in with the military and paramilitaries.
Edit: Thinking about it. We’re at the stage where feds are the SS. The Gestapo was pretty much absorbed into the SS.