Immigration and Customs Enforcement deployments to American cities are a central part of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet, according to data analyzed by NPR — and interviews with law enforcement and city officials — these actions stretched local police departments thin, disrupted businesses and left city budgets struggling to absorb the fallout.
In Los Angeles and Minneapolis, the immigration enforcement surge resulted in ballooning overtime costs for local police. In Portland, Ore., decreased police manpower contributed to longer call response times.
Amid what the Trump administration has dubbed Operation Metro Surge, businesses in cities like Bloomington and St. Paul, Minn., lost revenue, experienced unrest, and were similarly left with high bills.
So, working exactly as intended.
Exactly. Now they’re deployed to airports, where they’re already causing problems.
Can’t help but think the deployment to airports is a pre-run/recon for the cities they’re going to, in preparation for the midterms.
Operation “fuck the blue states” in full effect
It’s almost like they’re our actual, literal enemies and we should start treating them as such.
We give them our money. They threaten us and take advantage of us.
Sounds like an enemy to me.
I take issue with “Yet”, as if this is a surprise or was contrary to the intent of unleashing ICE in the first place. Very similar to the latest act of ICE in airports.
Yeah, it’s weird how all the media reports, even npr, pretend like anything being stated should be taken at face value so long after the regime has given up any pretext of what the say having to have even a kernel of truth.
Wasted millions on cop overtime so they could arrest a bunch of protesters and not do a goddamn thing to protect cities’ residences from ICE brutality
I would say “Now watch as these cities move their money around and defund actual useful public services to keep their police departments over-funded,” but we probably won’t get a deep dive investigation on those things like we did with this
Foster City CA is currently under siege and experiencing a government shutdown due to “ransomware”
This is a dry run for November
I’ll drink my tea warm; can’t afford ICE.
That’s because they are traitors in violation of our Constitution.
They are our enemies.
