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The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming | Tens of billions of new dollars plus a rush to hire 10,000 new agents equals a disaster in the making (www.thebulwark.com)
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For all the Trump administration’s talk of saving money and increasing “government efficiency,” the president demanded that huge amounts be appropriated in the Republicans’ recent budget bill to fund his mass-deportation program.

In all, $170 billion was set aside to be spent over the next four years for border and immigration enforcement. This total includes $45 billion to create a sprawling detention system (nearly five times the annual budget for the Bureau of Prisons), $30 billion for ICE operations, $46.6 billion for more border wall construction, and, as if that weren’t enough, a new $10 billion border patrol slush fund.

This level of funding is unprecedented. ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country. And that fact raises a question: What exactly are they going to do with all that money?

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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 61 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Disaster in the making? It's already a fucking disaster. ICE agents have been granted additional slack above and beyond that already extended to normal cops, who frequently abuse it. This is going to be a fucking American Kristallnacht for Latinos, with more groups set to follow in the wake of these broad constitutional and legal abuses.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

it's true that our current situation is a disaster. it does not diminish the fact that an even bigger disaster is being constructed while we process and attempt to repair this disaster. the old ice agents are bad, evil, and cruel, but they were also all recruited under a different framing of what ICE is supposed to be. the new ones will have absolutely no compunctions, no reservations, and no hesitations.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

They were recruited to round up brown people, whom they regard as criminal. That's true of the new group and was true of ice and cbp agents recruited under previous administrations.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Yup, combined with the EO from Friday allowing for involuntary civil commitment, more and more people outside latinos are going to start disappearing. I'm just waiting for them to consider having liberal views a mental disorder.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

They are going to go after trans people.

Is anyone going to do anything when we start being committed?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Short of hijacking a bulldozer and driving it through the exterior walls of these detention centers at risk of getting myself killed, I legit don't know what to do with anything at this point.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The only thing I can think of are the wooden hobby drones like the ones Ukraine used in that one successful strike against Russia.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Please, don't wait, tell everyone you know IRL who's in that position to make 'arrangements for travel out of country'.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

My options are driving either straight south or north and trying to sneak across the border. We aren’t recognized as qualifying for refugee status, I’ve been applying for jobs but I don’t know if I’ll be able to get anything, I don’t know how I would afford to move.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on this more, please? I'm not familiar with EO's declaration regarding involuntary commitment, but if it means what I think it does, it's a sea change. Where did you first hear/read about it, and what was the verbiage exactly?

[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I just put the words 'executive order involuntary commitment' into my search engine of choice and found multiple news articles covering this. I have every faith that you can do the same.