They poured resources into giving ICE new recruits, equipment, travel budgets, etc, but they didn't bother investing in actual detective training.
But Trump & Co. want results, they want pictures of black boots on brown necks, and since the whole bit about dangerous illegals was always a fucking lie, and it's actually hard to find violent illegals, they just started snatching up anyone that looked the part instead.
Ppl have been saying, posting and screaming at the top of their lungs THIS, trump being a con, project 2025 is their playbook etc. And just like now and in 10yrs time trump supporters will fall back to, well, he was charismaric, i didnt know or any other excuse to rinse their hand of ANY culpability.
They hire up a bunch of far right kooks into ICE, right, but they've got a ton of pressure to show results, Trump wants pictures of boots on brown necks to rule up the MAGAts. But, finding the dangerous illegals is actually hard, it takes legitimate police work, and ICE isn't trained for that. They're not "everywhere" or flagrant as the right wing propaganda says they are, because, you know, they're lying.
So, ICE goes after -anyone who looks the part- instead.
I know a couple of people who live in DC and they seemed to think that "those scary gang members" have been rounded up. Hubby asked where they went, woman neither knew nor cared. Nor could she explain how she knew they were gang members.
Yeah, the goal is 1. to fill media space and trigger the libs and to radicalize every racist but even more 2. To make sure, ICE has been turned into a paramilitary force, that obeys any order no matter what.
Why do you think they keep abducting people who are at or going to immigration court meetings? The ONLY thing the base they're pandering to cares about is 'punishing immigrants'. These people are here '''illegally''' only in so far as Trump supporters don't like the asylum system, or DACA, or anything that helps people become citizens
They also don't send the national guard to areas of cities that are actually high crime. Which to be clear, would still be fucked. But the idea that this has anything to do with crime is laughable. It's purely to terrorize dissenters and marginalized communities.
Typical broken window theory enforcement, focus on the little shit and some magical way the more important issues will solve themselves. In reality you end up harassing civilians while actual criminals skirt you at every turn
I was watching some news program in the ladies said That they took away our housekeeper and now she can't get anyone to do her housework and she said but you voted for Trump didn't you yeah what's that got to do with it. The stupidity is fucking immense
My nephew and wife have two kids now one's just going into Pre-K the other one almost toddling around and the only thing that helps them afford a housekeeper is the fact that they give her a greatly reduced rate on rent
Of course not. It's a Netanyahu -vs- Hamas kind of thing... they want the threat posed by gangs and child abductions still present to scare the populace into supporting their fascist goals. Deporting the law abiding immigrants to gulags signals to their supporters that they're deporting brown ppl while preserving all their scare tactics.
And they removed DACA protections. You were 3, your parents carried you here, you broke they law and are a criminal for what you did when you were too young to have adult memories of doing. To the gulag.... WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED YO AMERICA? WHY ARE WE NOW AMERIKKKA? 😩😩
1. Didn't punish the South properly and they continued the civil war in a different way. 2. Didn't punish the people behind the Business Plot. 3. Didn't sufficiently punish Nazis, in fact embraced them because of anti-communism.
We always were. trump just made it OK to be out in the open with it. Say it loud. I’m kkk and proud. At least we know who they are now. Sadly some are related to us.
To make a very lengthy explanation as short and simple as possible: we were always like this, just waiting for permission to be loud and blunt about it.
The entire country was founded on bigotry, racism, and sexism which condoned various forms of slavery. America has always been this way since its inception. They just dont have to hide it anymore.
We allowed the confederate flag to exist without being a crime after the war and let the KKK and Nazis have their parades because the racists screamed “it’s free speech!” and good-natured people wanted to believe that was their reason when the plan all along was just about suppressing minorities and they couldn’t care less about the constitution
"We don't hate all immigrants, we only hate the ones who are here illegally! ... By the way, you are illegal now. And you too. And next week you over there will be too. Oh, and the ways that are still legal will be even harder to achieve.
But again: we don't hate you because of the color of your skin or where you're from. Please keep voting for us, you Florida Cubans, Michigan Arabs, and other useful idiots. We certainly won't ever target you. Pinky promise."
Donald Trump is a monster with a clownish face, ridiculously long tie, and a carnival barking mouth. Fascist monsters always start out small... then work their way up. He is worsening with each passing week.
Fascism is here. And we have to fight it with everything we've got.
I can't believe a country that was built by slavery, expanded through genocidal manifest destiny, financed by exploitation, and consolidated it's power via military action would do those things... oh wait, yes I can
Yep the freedom but was always propaganda by the wealthy American founding fathers/oligarchs. Notice how all of them were very wealthy and stood to benefit greatly. Plus post relocation it was arguably the UK who made greater strides towards freedoms for its citizens. Slavery being an example.
You're right, except the "all" part in which you decided to be the most ridiculous possible using only four words. Good news though, it's a truly shocking level of ridiculous, even alongside things like "acetaminophen causes autism" so you've got one...."worthwhile" skill.
Pronounce acetaminophen, then I will explain to you why you fuckwits are to blame for the hell you created for yourselves. Be butt hurt all you want, it’s not going to change the outcome. Good luck with the fascism.
Oh sorry I dumbed it down for American readers. Was using a turn of phrase similar to “y’all”. What I mean is, you stupid shit eating American dumbasses voted for it and now you have to lay in the bed you made. My apologies if you were confused.
Sort of a side tangent, but the camp's were never called that inside Russia. Gulag originally referred to the division of the secret police running them. In fact, the term was so unused that my dad who grew up in the USSR had never even heard of the term before. There isn't anything wrong with using that term, but I thought it was interesting.
Dictionary: Synonyms of gulag : the penal system of the Soviet Union consisting of a network of labor camps also : labor camp Example: Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died. —Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
I don't think your votes matter at this point. Either rule of law suddenly starts counting for something again, in which case he can't run for a third term, or he's going to find some way to be installed as fuhrer-for-life in which case *no one's* votes are likely to matter.
UncleScarwasright
As their recruitment ad says "the worst of the worst!"
pete8772
I have a feeling most ICE fuckers would be too scared to take down street gangs.
EmperorCartagia
Low hanging fruit.
They poured resources into giving ICE new recruits, equipment, travel budgets, etc, but they didn't bother investing in actual detective training.
But Trump & Co. want results, they want pictures of black boots on brown necks, and since the whole bit about dangerous illegals was always a fucking lie, and it's actually hard to find violent illegals, they just started snatching up anyone that looked the part instead.
SteveTheEgg
But Fox News says ... - all the people who still support Trump.
Misteree8
Ppl have been saying, posting and screaming at the top of their lungs THIS, trump being a con, project 2025 is their playbook etc. And just like now and in 10yrs time trump supporters will fall back to, well, he was charismaric, i didnt know or any other excuse to rinse their hand of ANY culpability.
NR97420
Or it will be like GWB and there won't be anyone who admits to having voted for the guy.
yoyopopo
Some people don't want to share the land even when they have more than enough for themselves.
EmperorCartagia
Low hanging fruit.
They hire up a bunch of far right kooks into ICE, right, but they've got a ton of pressure to show results, Trump wants pictures of boots on brown necks to rule up the MAGAts. But, finding the dangerous illegals is actually hard, it takes legitimate police work, and ICE isn't trained for that. They're not "everywhere" or flagrant as the right wing propaganda says they are, because, you know, they're lying.
So, ICE goes after -anyone who looks the part- instead.
textilelover
I know a couple of people who live in DC and they seemed to think that "those scary gang members" have been rounded up. Hubby asked where they went, woman neither knew nor cared. Nor could she explain how she knew they were gang members.
thecorrupterx
They went after people that have taxes taken from their paychecks, but NEVER file for a tax return. AKA, people contributing a lot to the govt.
ForTheBestReally
Because they’re cowards
spitfires2000
Street gangs: they have guns. Missing children: done by them. Epstein list: can't go the White House...
Pelican3
And only in blue areas. Zero enforcement in South Florida.
Maraxus
Yeah, the goal is 1. to fill media space and trigger the libs and to radicalize every racist but even more 2. To make sure, ICE has been turned into a paramilitary force, that obeys any order no matter what.
zeusdemigod131
Why do you think they keep abducting people who are at or going to immigration court meetings? The ONLY thing the base they're pandering to cares about is 'punishing immigrants'. These people are here '''illegally''' only in so far as Trump supporters don't like the asylum system, or DACA, or anything that helps people become citizens
Illinifan88
They also don't send the national guard to areas of cities that are actually high crime. Which to be clear, would still be fucked. But the idea that this has anything to do with crime is laughable. It's purely to terrorize dissenters and marginalized communities.
michaelfire
Didn't go after a single white collar tax cheat, crypto fraud, government contractor embezzler/cheat....
kJerAFK
Typical broken window theory enforcement, focus on the little shit and some magical way the more important issues will solve themselves. In reality you end up harassing civilians while actual criminals skirt you at every turn
thatwoodguy
I was watching some news program in the ladies said That they took away our housekeeper and now she can't get anyone to do her housework and she said but you voted for Trump didn't you yeah what's that got to do with it. The stupidity is fucking immense
ChiefRunningFridge
I like that someone that stupid can afford a housekeeper. Since you know wealth is supposed to be a meritocracy.
thatwoodguy
My nephew and wife have two kids now one's just going into Pre-K the other one almost toddling around and the only thing that helps them afford a housekeeper is the fact that they give her a greatly reduced rate on rent
ElbowDeepInAHeadlessHorseman
Of course not. It's a Netanyahu -vs- Hamas kind of thing... they want the threat posed by gangs and child abductions still present to scare the populace into supporting their fascist goals. Deporting the law abiding immigrants to gulags signals to their supporters that they're deporting brown ppl while preserving all their scare tactics.
VerboseDood61
Fuck this racist shithole nation!!! #AreWeGreatAgainYet?
ChiefRunningFridge
Well duh! Those people don't fight back. They'd have to keep washing the piss out of their tacticool otherwise.
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
MAGATS: if they are illegal they are not law abiding, hur-dur!
ManOfEvil93
You vote in a Racists, Narcissistic egotists into office, and wonder why the rest of the country is showing its true colours as the same
M4UsedRollout
And the Hyundai/LG employees who were all here legally setting up a factory to bring a couple thousand jobs to Georgia.
And that’s what Miller wants. He gave ICE high daily quotas and told them to hit soft targets. He doesn’t care about the gangs.
DOcelot1
The KKK is literally in the Whitehouse, how did you think it would play out?
clonedeeznuts
It's in a whole lotta states a basically the southern region.
IndigoThursday
Exactly like this
We're not surprised anymore, we're just documenting it
Everyonesfavorite
I thought someone would have accidentally fallen off the white house roof or suffered a bad fall down some marble stairs or an escalator by now.
migratingotter
Putin is happy with the chaos. We have to wait for diaper Don to mess more than his pants to be defenestrated.
StarscreamAndHutch
Yeah, why did trimp stop going on the roof? He did it like twice in a week. So many opportunities lost.
hsalonen3000
Some people just don't understand how quotas work.
crazyspelling
And 300+ South Koreans that were brought in to help open a Hyundai factory in Georgia!
TNSCLuotaMEa4fVN
Fascists do Fascist stuff.
Everyonesfavorite
And they removed DACA protections. You were 3, your parents carried you here, you broke they law and are a criminal for what you did when you were too young to have adult memories of doing. To the gulag.... WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED YO AMERICA? WHY ARE WE NOW AMERIKKKA? 😩😩
tolgabrotha
1. Didn't punish the South properly and they continued the civil war in a different way.
2. Didn't punish the people behind the Business Plot.
3. Didn't sufficiently punish Nazis, in fact embraced them because of anti-communism.
Just a general lack of punishment
WrongUn
This has been bubbling under the surface for DECADES.
B99Reactions
haha now
Hawkgirl203
We always were. trump just made it OK to be out in the open with it. Say it loud. I’m kkk and proud. At least we know who they are now. Sadly some are related to us.
coffeeandprozac
To make a very lengthy explanation as short and simple as possible: we were always like this, just waiting for permission to be loud and blunt about it.
StellarJay77
The entire country was founded on bigotry, racism, and sexism which condoned various forms of slavery. America has always been this way since its inception. They just dont have to hide it anymore.
Clayman8
Y'all always were, you just stopped collectively hiding it sadly. But y'all got a chance to fix it and sadly its a bit too little and too late.
SecondSince
The mask has simply slipped off. Honestly this is what the US has always been.
meganical
We allowed the confederate flag to exist without being a crime after the war and let the KKK and Nazis have their parades because the racists screamed “it’s free speech!” and good-natured people wanted to believe that was their reason when the plan all along was just about suppressing minorities and they couldn’t care less about the constitution
Tezerah1
The only war (that the US won) where they allowed the looser to keep their identity, weapons, erect statues etc.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
"We don't hate all immigrants, we only hate the ones who are here illegally! ... By the way, you are illegal now. And you too. And next week you over there will be too. Oh, and the ways that are still legal will be even harder to achieve.
But again: we don't hate you because of the color of your skin or where you're from. Please keep voting for us, you Florida Cubans, Michigan Arabs, and other useful idiots. We certainly won't ever target you. Pinky promise."
StellarJay77
Oh and they only hate the brown immigrants. White ones are fine (legal or illegal).
SlyHandTan
Always has been
FreshBundleOfStick
All the signs were on the wall but apparently we couldn't call them nazis because we "disagreed" with them.
Everyonesfavorite
And those of us that did call them nazis are now labeled having tRump derangement syndrome, or being antifa terrorists.
cytherians
Donald Trump is a monster with a clownish face, ridiculously long tie, and a carnival barking mouth. Fascist monsters always start out small... then work their way up. He is worsening with each passing week.
Fascism is here. And we have to fight it with everything we've got.
Everyonesfavorite
God, I'd love to punch him in the mouth! Especially when he makes that fucking face, you know the one.
tinyfootprints
Republicans happened.
anarchoFeline
I can't believe a country that was built by slavery, expanded through genocidal manifest destiny, financed by exploitation, and consolidated it's power via military action would do those things... oh wait, yes I can
BrdCdn
Yep the freedom but was always propaganda by the wealthy American founding fathers/oligarchs. Notice how all of them were very wealthy and stood to benefit greatly. Plus post relocation it was arguably the UK who made greater strides towards freedoms for its citizens. Slavery being an example.
xedd82
You all voted for it.
fubizdaddie
You're right, except the "all" part in which you decided to be the most ridiculous possible using only four words. Good news though, it's a truly shocking level of ridiculous, even alongside things like "acetaminophen causes autism" so you've got one...."worthwhile" skill.
xedd82
Pronounce acetaminophen, then I will explain to you why you fuckwits are to blame for the hell you created for yourselves. Be butt hurt all you want, it’s not going to change the outcome. Good luck with the fascism.
thisisnotfineffs
Do you not know what all means?
xedd82
Oh sorry I dumbed it down for American readers. Was using a turn of phrase similar to “y’all”. What I mean is, you stupid shit eating American dumbasses voted for it and now you have to lay in the bed you made. My apologies if you were confused.
thisisnotfineffs
Big bark, small dog
etcnotect
Sort of a side tangent, but the camp's were never called that inside Russia. Gulag originally referred to the division of the secret police running them. In fact, the term was so unused that my dad who grew up in the USSR had never even heard of the term before. There isn't anything wrong with using that term, but I thought it was interesting.
cytherians
Dictionary:
Synonyms of gulag
: the penal system of the Soviet Union consisting of a network of labor camps
also : labor camp
Example: Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died. —Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
etcnotect
I'm not sure what point you're making?
pm1001
And fire fighters, while they were fighting a forest fire
CrabbyBlueberry
Weren't some of the firefighters were indigenous? Watcha gonna do? Deport em back to America?
mithiwithi
The ICE Gestapo doesn't care. They'll deport their victims to wherever the courts don't stop them from deporting them to.
pm1001
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YouRadicalizedMe
Fuck ice
Zootsoot
Yup. And that was the nanosecond Trump lost at least 100,000 West coast votes. Do NOT fuck around with our firefighters.
NR97420
Yeah I hope... but Oregon's top Republican wants Portland invaded by troops, like Trump. They are a cult who will harm themselves to harm us
Syovere
I don't think your votes matter at this point. Either rule of law suddenly starts counting for something again, in which case he can't run for a third term, or he's going to find some way to be installed as fuhrer-for-life in which case *no one's* votes are likely to matter.