ICE is merely enforcing laws passed by Congress and signed by our elected presidents

[Anonymous]

Several U.S. Senators, primarily progressive Democratic like Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Ed Markey, have called for defunding or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

It's another "Defund the Police" effort, but this time against a federal law enforcement agency. I think the voters will reward this. Voters prefer a kinder, gentler approach toward our illegal immigrant communities. We shouldn't try to enforce our laws or borders, we should try to work with the undocumented to foster understanding and unlock taxpayer dollars for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Democratic fight against immigration enforcement is a winning issue. The voters may not have liked it when we waved in tens of millions of new illegals under Biden, but they DO like it when we try to undermine any law enforcement against those illegals.

This paragraph is so strange. The most awkward framing possible. Anyone else see what I mean?

Because it’s a crappy troll attempt and they’re not very good at it.

Exactly. People are either with us, or against us. We need to be vigilant against possible Republicans who try to sneak in posts in our Democratic forums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Democratic fight against immigration enforcement is a winning issue. The voters may not have liked it when we waved in tens of millions of new illegals under Biden, but they DO like it when we try to undermine any law enforcement against those illegals.

This paragraph is so strange. The most awkward framing possible. Anyone else see what I mean?

Because it’s a crappy troll attempt and they’re not very good at it.

Exactly. People are either with us, or against us. We need to be vigilant against possible Republicans who try to sneak in posts in our Democratic forums.

Awww, keep going, practice makes perfect!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several U.S. Senators, primarily progressive Democratic like Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Ed Markey, have called for defunding or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

It's another "Defund the Police" effort, but this time against a federal law enforcement agency. I think the voters will reward this. Voters prefer a kinder, gentler approach toward our illegal immigrant communities. We shouldn't try to enforce our laws or borders, we should try to work with the undocumented to foster understanding and unlock taxpayer dollars for them.

This post more lamer than something you’d see in the Babylon Bee, and that’s saying something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several U.S. Senators, primarily progressive Democratic like Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Ed Markey, have called for defunding or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

It's another "Defund the Police" effort, but this time against a federal law enforcement agency. I think the voters will reward this. Voters prefer a kinder, gentler approach toward our illegal immigrant communities. We shouldn't try to enforce our laws or borders, we should try to work with the undocumented to foster understanding and unlock taxpayer dollars for them.

Markey is about to get replaced by Moulton. He’s so old I can smell him through the tv.

[Anonymous]

Trump Signs the “Laken Riley Act”

Executive actions are transitory by nature (a future administration can undo them) while statutory changes have more permanence.

Consequently, January 2025 will likely be remembered in the long run as the month Congress passed (by bipartisan majorities) and President Trump signed Public Law 119-1, the “Laken Riley Act”.

The bill, which became law on January 29, is named for a 22-year-old Georgia university student slain in broad daylight in February 2022 by Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan migrant who entered illegally in September 2022, was apprehended and released.

Ms. Riley’s murder became a flashpoint for the Biden administration’s open-border policies, especially after the then-president: (1) was forced to acknowledge her killing at his March 2024 State of the Union address; (2) misidentified her, appearing to call her “Lincoln Riley”, the coach of the University of Southern California football team; (3) referred to her killer as an “illegal”; and then (4) apologized for not referring to Ibarra as “undocumented” instead.

The law is a direct rebuke to the worst Biden immigration policies, in particular “guidelines” issued by then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in September 2021 that hindered ICE officers’ ability to “take enforcement action” against criminal aliens in the United States.

The states of Texas and Louisiana sued to block those guidelines and force the Biden administration to comply with detention mandates for criminal aliens in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), but in its June 2023 opinion in U.S. v. Texas, the Supreme Court sided with Mayorkas and held that even states lacked standing to force DHS to arrest and detain aliens who pose a danger to the community.

The Laken Riley Act reversed that opinion legislatively by granting state attorneys general such standing and also freed them to file suit to curb abuses of the executive branch’s “parole” authority under section 212(d)(5)(A) of the INA.

By my (conservative) estimate, the Biden administration used its limited parole authority to funnel more than 2.8 million facially inadmissible (read: “illegal”) aliens into the United States.

That’s more people than reside in 15 U.S. states, and a recent Government Accountability Office report found that many of the programs Biden’s DHS relied upon to parole them were riddled with fraud.

In all honesty, I’m not sure whether the senators and congressmen who voted to pass the Laken Riley Act understood just how sweeping the changes in that law were. Regardless, it would bind the hands of a future Gavin Newsom administration if it attempted to repeat many of the immigration blunders of Biden-Harris.

https://cis.org/Arthur/January-2025-Month-Everything-Changed-Immigration

Weird that young men want to have jobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several U.S. Senators, primarily progressive Democratic like Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Ed Markey, have called for defunding or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

It's another "Defund the Police" effort, but this time against a federal law enforcement agency. I think the voters will reward this. Voters prefer a kinder, gentler approach toward our illegal immigrant communities. We shouldn't try to enforce our laws or borders, we should try to work with the undocumented to foster understanding and unlock taxpayer dollars for them.

Lmao, of course they are going to defund it, they just INCREASED the funding tenfold, so it will go back to some sane and reasonable level. They will fire all of the recent hires and they can go back to their jobs as sex offenders at the county fair ring toss booths, and there will hopefully be a new version of immigration control run by adults.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. We're gonna have an uphill battle in coming election cycles. We are so contemptuous of Republicans, so snidely dismissive of their concerns.

We'll just keep Ling our As Off at stupid Republicans and their irrational concerns about mass illegal immigration from third world countries.

The last time our Democratic "adults" ran the border, 10 million illegals streamed across. It'll be an uphill battle to convice voters to put our adults back in charge.

We're also going to have a tough time coralling our own party. We have a very broad spectrum of opinion on this issue. We have the "deniers" who say there was no border crisis, we have the "Biden's hands were tied, only the legislature can close the border" folks, we have the sane centrist adults who want to protect the border but also want comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, and then we have a lot of anti-ICE, anti-deportation activists.

Presumably the anti-deportation activists would calm down if Democrats were in charge. The challenge will be getting them to pipe down while we campaign as adults who can enforce border controls without all the Trump chaos and cruelty.

It will take a strong and popular Dem frontt-runner to corral the whole party into a coherent position on immigration. They will have to square the circle and simultaneously push strong borders AND strong protections and benefits for the millions of undocumented already here.

[Anonymous]

Chicago Tribune’s investigative report on ICE: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin.

https://archive.ph/2025.12.28-225301/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-2/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. We're gonna have an uphill battle in coming election cycles. We are so contemptuous of Republicans, so snidely dismissive of their concerns.

We'll just keep Ling our As Off at stupid Republicans and their irrational concerns about mass illegal immigration from third world countries.

The last time our Democratic "adults" ran the border, 10 million illegals streamed across. It'll be an uphill battle to convice voters to put our adults back in charge.

We're also going to have a tough time coralling our own party. We have a very broad spectrum of opinion on this issue. We have the "deniers" who say there was no border crisis, we have the "Biden's hands were tied, only the legislature can close the border" folks, we have the sane centrist adults who want to protect the border but also want comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, and then we have a lot of anti-ICE, anti-deportation activists.

Presumably the anti-deportation activists would calm down if Democrats were in charge. The challenge will be getting them to pipe down while we campaign as adults who can enforce border controls without all the Trump chaos and cruelty.

It will take a strong and popular Dem frontt-runner to corral the whole party into a coherent position on immigration. They will have to square the circle and simultaneously push strong borders AND strong protections and benefits for the millions of undocumented already here.

1) there were not 10 million illegals crossing the boarders
2) if it was such an issue, why did trump kill the GOP immigration reform bill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago Tribune’s investigative report on ICE: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin.

https://archive.ph/2025.12.28-225301/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-2/

Where does it say in the law that only illegal immigrants with violent felony convictions should be deported? The law states that all illegal immigrants should be deported. Democrats keep claiming illegal immigrants need due process in court, but then state it’s cruel to deport those who lose their cases and who judges order deported from the country. What is the purpose of having immigration courts if those who are ordered deported never leave? What kind of message do you send to the rest of the world if you claim only illegal immigrants with violent felony convictions should be deported? That’s an invitation for millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country and a border crisis like Biden presided over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago Tribune’s investigative report on ICE: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin.

https://archive.ph/2025.12.28-225301/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-2/

Where does it say in the law that only illegal immigrants with violent felony convictions should be deported? The law states that all illegal immigrants should be deported. Democrats keep claiming illegal immigrants need due process in court, but then state it’s cruel to deport those who lose their cases and who judges order deported from the country. What is the purpose of having immigration courts if those who are ordered deported never leave? What kind of message do you send to the rest of the world if you claim only illegal immigrants with violent felony convictions should be deported? That’s an invitation for millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country and a border crisis like Biden presided over.

Democrats are merely citing the US Constitution, but hey, what do we know.

Let's put it another way...how is someone who was apprehended supposed to assert they are here legally if they don't get a day in court?

Narrator: this is how US citizens ended up at CECOT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several U.S. Senators, primarily progressive Democratic like Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Ed Markey, have called for defunding or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

It's another "Defund the Police" effort, but this time against a federal law enforcement agency. I think the voters will reward this. Voters prefer a kinder, gentler approach toward our illegal immigrant communities. We shouldn't try to enforce our laws or borders, we should try to work with the undocumented to foster understanding and unlock taxpayer dollars for them.

Some voters will reward this directly. Many voters will simple vote against the GOP or will not bother to vote. ICE budget for fiscal year 2025 is over $101 billion and the American people do not (see polling and see elections) approve of ICE's current tactics and there is no perceptible benefit to economics or public safety.

Nothing the GOP is doing is going over well with a majority of the American people. Some billionaires might like it, but Trump and his spineless allies are underwater on everything.

[Anonymous]

The wildest thing about the Somali daycare scandal is that apparently the government’s goal was to subsidize daycares for random immigrants while tax paying American parents have been complaining for years they can barely afford childcare with two incomes.

there is hope.

Today from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: “We’ve been on the ground in Minnesota conducting criminal investigations, and Homeland Security Investigations has gone door to door to a lot of these suspected fraud sites all over St. Paul… and we’re learning a lot.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The wildest thing about the Somali daycare scandal is that apparently the government’s goal was to subsidize daycares for random immigrants while tax paying American parents have been complaining for years they can barely afford childcare with two incomes.

there is hope.

Today from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: “We’ve been on the ground in Minnesota conducting criminal investigations, and Homeland Security Investigations has gone door to door to a lot of these suspected fraud sites all over St. Paul… and we’re learning a lot.”

This scandal was perpatrated by a white woman, had its investigation begin under Biden and was for pennies on the dollar of anything Musk or Trump has done t our treasury. But keep being outraged for 6 and 7 figures while the billionaires rape our treasury for 8, 9 and 10 figures.