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ICE launches assault on D.C. business in search of TV moments (www.forever-wars.com)

submitted 4 days ago by AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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As working people, immigration organizers, and non-profits successfully mobilize and educate massive numbers of people on their right to not cooperate with ICE, the Trump administration has struggled to make good on their promise to detain and deport more people than the Biden administration. Which is one of the reasons why Kristie Noem and DHS have resorted to very public facing immigration raids in places like DC, where ICE aimed to arrest and imprison up to 2000 people in our nation’s capital in a planned series of operations. It seems as though DHS is desperately looking for photo ops so that Trump and MAGA will like them, even as our organizers powerfully and effectively get in the way of them carrying out their attacks.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's kind of what's crazy to imagine, is that by all means, the Biden administration has deported much more immigrants than this Trump administration, not just overall but also within the same time frame. The reason it's much more visible now is because they WANT it to be more noticed, as they are trying to sell an image of themselves as tough on immigration.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Really? Within the first 3 months or so of the Biden Administration they deported the same or more numbers than Trump Admin 2.0 has now?

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and Biden's admin had the highest levels of deportations over the past 10 years. The reason Trumps second term seems worse is because they're dropping pretenses and all semblance of due process to try and surpass those numbers, without taking care to target only those that the media doesn't care about. The media was also surely content to not discuss the issue when Biden was in office, so this may well be a case of a long pre-existing issue only being taken notice of when the "wrong team" is in charge.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Damn, that's terrible. I knew Biden had very high total numbers but I hadn't realized that the rate was higher for the same timeframe.