• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    Meanwhile at ICE, Vitello told agents in January to aim to meet a daily quota of 1,200-1,400 arrests. According to numbers ICE has posted on X, the highest single day total since Trump was inaugurated was just 1,100, and the number has fallen since that day. On Tuesday of this week, arrests of immigrants were over 800, according to a source familiar with the numbers. But last weekend, there were only about 300 arrests, another source told NBC News.

    And, as NBC News has reported, arrests do not always equal immediate detentions, much less deportations. Of the more than 8,000 immigrants arrested in the first two weeks of the Trump administration, 461 were released, according to the White House.

    I still chuckle at the user that told me deportation was not Trump’s point.

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      And, as NBC News has reported, arrests do not always equal immediate detentions, much less deportations

      Well of course. When you have ICE agents literally arresting families just for speaking Spanish, many of those arrested are going to actually be US citizens.

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        Fucking Navajo were arrested.

        But I will not be at all surprised when Trump says indigenous Americans need to be deported to Indigia or wherever he thinks they come from.

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          From the small amount of research I just did, it looks like either the Conoy or Powhatan tribes could lay claim to the area now known as Washington, D.C.

          Could be good to know.

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            Would they want it back? It would be like trying to detail a car a chain smoker drove for 10 years. No matter what you do, the stench will never leave.

            Maybe we can use it as a nuclear waste dump.

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        Yeah… well the question then is going to be how long before they extend it out so that more false positives are shipped out anyway.

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    I’d say we’re about a week and a half from him calling for shooting anyone who resists ICE in the head.

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      Or is it just another example of Trumps “business experience”? Anyone who has worked long enough has experienced “management through terror” where the starting point is being angry on the idea that a terrorized person will scramble to get it done and will do anything to avoid being the target of that anger. Usually you’d have to switch jobs to find a less toxic environment but that may well be a secondary goal here

      An additional “tactic” we’ve seen from Trump repeatedly, is to establish a scapegoat first. Then anytime you change your mind you have a ready target to blame

      Yet another habit we’ve seen from Trump is to set a goal or targets without any regard for reality. Whatever his target, if he has one, was it ever realistic? Has he allocated resources to make it possible?

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    The orange stain will not come close to former President Obama’s deportation record. Is ICE in the rural red run welfare counties deporting illegals from the meat packaging and agricultural industries?