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ICE is merely enforcing laws passed by Congress and signed by our elected presidents
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Anonymous
What should we do about YOUR parking tickets? Take your car? |
Anonymous
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Worst conspiracy theory I saw today was on a substack called the Drey Dossier where the person had some interesting online research to support the idea that undocumented immigrants who are being picked up are being secretly herded off to an FDC in Honolulu that’s only 15 minutes drive from a major neurological surgical center.
That the detainees are possibly being used as experimental subjects for Elon Musk’s neurolink program. Supposedly he once said he needed 1000 test subjects to undergo implant brain surgery and that FDC has 982 spaces. That is just an unimaginably crazy idea, but she had enough receipts with her research to put a few pieces together to come up with it. |
Anonymous
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As of mid-November 2025, there were 65,135 people in ICE detention.
73.6% of current detainees (47,964 people) have no criminal conviction So, no OP, ICE is not doing what the American public wanted and voted for,. |
Anonymous
Take the car, revoke the license, permanently ban PP from driving. That's how we do things in America. |
Anonymous
The approach the administration is using is grossly inefficient and just plain bad policy as well as unreasonable and unfair. Enforcing the law always includes prioritizing crimes that are the most egregious and present the greatest risk to communities. If I bounce a check, unless it is large or there is evidence of intent, police will generally not refer for prosecution or do more than take a report. First time possession of marijuana is often a citation if the state has not legalized marijuana. For other drugs it is likely probation. Bizarre but true--the deportations (half a million plus 1.5 million self deported) could actually increase crime rates in states where the largest numbers have been removed, since undocumented immigrants have a lower crime rate than those living here legally and citizens (whose crime rate is higher than either group of immigrants). One credible source of data is Texas, which does track status of perpetrators. As I understand it, in many cases people detained have asylum claims pending (and the administration has chosen to remove immigration judges with experience if they let anyone stay). Others have deferred deportation, because historically the US has deported people to their country of origin and if the person is stateless or their country will not accept them they may remain, subject to monitoring. The reasonable thing to do in those cases--where more often than not they have family members who are citizens as well as deep ties in the US. Like the 79 year old born in a refugee camp for displaced persons in 1946, after his parents survived the holocaust, and has now been detained. He was a year old when he got here, and it is very likely when his parents became naturalized they did not realize the child would not gain citizenship with them. He committed crimes when he was young, neither Poland nor Germany would recognize him as one of theirs, so deportation was deferred and he had not committed any crimes since. BEsides serving his criminal sentence, he was forever barred from receiving Social Security in spite of working for decades as well as denied a path to citizenship (unlike Marco Rubio's grandfather, who was about to be deported when somehow he managed to stay in the US and later DID become a citizen). What the administration is doing is not what a government with a functioning and accountable system does. It is exactly how repressive regimes work--give lip service to an appearance of implementing the law while actually exercising its power in utterly arbitrary ways intended to intimidate the population, including the people who work within its agencies. |
Anonymous
EFFECTS OF NAFTA 1994 Farmers, particularly those in rural areas, struggled to compete with subsidized U.S. agricultural products. Crops like corn, rice, and wheat, which were previously staples in Mexico, were suddenly available at much lower prices. This led to a decline in domestic agricultural production, as Mexican farmers could not compete with the heavily subsidized U.S. imports. The collapse of small-scale farming led to widespread unemployment in rural Mexico. As a result, many farmers and rural workers were forced to migrate to cities in search of work, exacerbating urbanization and contributing to social unrest.l In many cases, farmers were also encouraged to migrate to the U.S., seeking better opportunities |
Anonymous
This does not tell us much. It is like the stat way back-people on welfare are on average there for ten years. There are nearly a million deportations, who all went through detention. Perhaps(I have no idea) criminal convicted have less protections and can be processed faster, while those without stay in detention longer. |
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It's clear that many Trump supporters voted for increased economic activity and lower prices.
For the most part, they didn't care, pay attention or understand many of the other parts of his platform. Both parties have to stop thinking that they were elected on a mandate for anything other than what the vast majority claimed is why they received their vote. That's why the Mamdani is at least smart in that no matter what question you ask him, he always responds with some version of "I was elected to increase affordability in NYC". He knows that's his only mandate, and anything else he might have mentioned may appeal to a subset...but they aren't his mandate. |
Anonymous
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Party of life and families
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/british-mum-detained-ice-agents-california-5HjdNNP_2/ “We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them |
Anonymous
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No, laws not being followed and the DOJ hanging Noem out to dry (in jail). FAFO.
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed that hundreds of Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. in March be transferred to El Salvador, despite a federal judge ordering deportation planes turned around, according to a new court filing from Trump administration lawyers. In the filing late Tuesday, the Department of Justice said that DOJ and DHS officials conveyed their legal advice to Noem after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg gave first an oral directive and then a written order that sought to block the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.” https://apple.news/AIK2VUSenTvihrqtuKKyIqg |
Anonymous
NAFTA is the result of Reagan-Bush. Yes, Clinton signed it; he had no choice as it had all been negotiated by then, but this was all the GOP that caused this. |
Anonymous