Two things:
When does ICE come knocking at the door of all Trumpâs U.S. resorts to deal with all his undocumented employees? I mean, cart all the management away in cuffs, like their real mandate calls them to do.
Can the next Democratic President shut this arm of the government down, fire all its current employees, prosecute all said former employees for crimes against humanity and then rebuild this organization under a sane, humane, democratically passed immigration program?
Prioritizing criminals?
You mean like designating a specific individual as #1?
Strangely written article. Why no mention of what happened to all the people arrested under Obama and the Lump? How many convicted, put in jail or sent out of the country?
Arresting people with no previous arrests? ICE really sounds like a nasty piece of work directed by our most nasty leader.
Anyone seeing âThe Handmaidâs Taleâ knows that ICE is the tool for the ugly far right wing religious freaks to begin their ugly repressive patriarchy. I found this to be unsurprising. ICE is morphing into a cryptofascist deportation and repression army, and needs its wings clipped as soon as the Trump regime ends.
Along with Trump and Pence, ICE is painting a very ugly face on all Americans. We deserve much better that this, as do all peaceful, hardworking immigrants who arrive to our borders.
Obama ran a very tough deportation policyânot as tough as some claim, because the definition of âdeportationâ expanded under his administration to cover informal deportation of unlawful border crossers. He still got roasted from the right. It added no value to the Democratic brand, in fact arguable detracted from it.
The takeaway, as it is in so many areas of policy, is that Dems will get roasted by Republicans whatever they do. So they might as well do the right thing, with the minimum of fuss and debate. Just act. Scrap ICE, create a new agency guided by humane values.
I agree that ICE must be abolished. Such highly dysfunctional organizations cannot be âreformedâ, and it is not a matter of weeding out âbad applesâ. As currently constituted they are all bad.
Abolishing the organization wholesale - what does that mean in terms of civil service protections? Can we just lay them all off then? When the Republicans abolished offices like OTA, didnât everyone just lose their jobs?
Do people get any kind of day in court or are they put on buses south? Iâd heard that was the way it used to work, and, of course, many people coming back again. This is a horribly broken system and it seems odd we donât hear that much about how it works, but thatâs how they want it.
I have to wonder if the guards at Auschwitz or the Einsatzgruppen also felt so put upon?
Yes, I know we havenât got there yet. But they didnât start off that way either.
Since Trump intentionally hires illegal immigrants, he is the first one who should be arrested and tried for his crime. A few days in a holding cell should be very educational for him.
So they only occasionally terrorize US citizens. How soothing.
And, given disparate rates of arrest for minor infractions, Iâm sure theyâre going after the irish, canadians, eastern europeansâŚ
Arresting people going to and from the courthouse is sure going to make people willing to testify think thrice.
Do Trump and ICE supporters really fail to see the breathtaking hypocrisy in, on the one hand, closing down the Government for a âmuch neededâ Wall to âprotect our country from drug dealers and human smugglers and the dregs of societyâ, and on the other hand, employing numerous undocumented workers at his resorts? And not only that, but actively aiding and abetting them by securing fraudulent green cards and social security numbers!!!
If we would arrest and detain employers like Trump, we wouldnât need politicians like Trump.
âThere is a tension around âIt could be that somebody could find out what I do and hate me for it or do worse than hate me for it,'â Ronald Vitiello, acting head of the agency, told The Associated Press.
Whoâd thunk that being a member of the American Gestapo would be unpopular?
Funny thing about that, the largest numbers of âillegalâ immigrants are overwhelmingly Canadian.
Fun Fact: Canadians are not known for farm labor here in the US.
Donât forget to nab the illegal non-Hispanic people too, especially the Russians. I hear they drink a lot, and have gangs that scare the entire Trump organization too.
Itâs odd that thereâs such a pronounced dearth of news stories about ICE roundups in Brighton Beach.
ICE should really deport Trump to either Putinâs kremlin, or MBSâs kingdom of murder, or perhaps to the North Pole so he can feel how hot it is there due to climate change!
Not too long ago, I would have thought your words hyperbole. No longer.
Check out âIt Canât Happen Here,â 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis still in print.
There is a portion of our population that enjoys â yes, enjoys â seeing people they despise or fear dragged off by goons. Multiple examples in Italy, Germany, Russia in WW2 and late 1930âs.
Check out âAu revoir les enfants,â [âgoodbye kidsâ] a French film, 1987, based on real events.
ICE should be focusing on ALL immigrants who are hear illegally! Such as Europeans who reside in America illegally!