Border czar whines it’s been ‘hard’ to find undocumented immigrants
Border czar whines it’s been ‘hard’ to find undocumented immigrants
Trump appointee Tom Homan pledged to ramp up immigration enforcement.
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.
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?
It's almost like it was a completely manufactured issue... Fancy that.
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
"Well, we'll just have to scoop up random brown people, I guess. Gotta keep those numbers up."
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.
The reason sanctuary cities exist is because law enforcement in those cities needs community buy-in to help solve other more important crimes. A witness to a murder or a victim of domestic violence might not come forward if they are undocumented and might get deported for talking to the police.
No way to really track it because by definition they're going unreported but I can only imagine what kind of horror show is going unreported due to these raids.
The sanctuary cities are gathering and collection points. If I was an illegal immigrant, I would work in the red run welfare counties for a MAGAt farmer.
Yeah the problem there is you're gonna get horrific working conditions and if you try to speak up about it they'll call ICE on you and get another immigrant to replace you.
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?
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
That's never been an issue for the MAGA people. See also: trans people being any kind of problem to anyone.
We've all seen this movie before.
The next line starts with "then they came for"
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.
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.
Logistically speaking, yes.
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!"
This reflects one of the many flaws with the logic of people who thought Trump was only going to go after the criminals.
The thing about criminals is, they don't follow the law. It's in their interest to not be easy to find.
So, ICE, whose job it is to make Trump look good to his base by deporting brown people, don't go after murderers or rapists, because that is hard and they're barely qualified to begin with. They go after the people who are abiding by the law, whose exact legal status is unclear because our whole fucking system works against its own interests. They go against the people who are legal who Trump has stripped some status from. Because it's easy to find them and they're less likely to put up a fight.
They keep finding brown citizens instead.
Which is the point.
Which was implied
"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!"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.
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
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
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.
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.
What's border czar doing in metropolitan areas? The border is all way over there in the south.
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.
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.
Keep resisting. Protect your neighbors.
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.
Well, if they were documented it would be easier….
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...