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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 49 points 14 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 10 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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 7 points 4 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 4 points 4 hours ago

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.

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

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

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 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 3 points 2 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.

[–] splount@lemmy.world 48 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We are going to see some real Abu Graib type shit in no time at all with the culture of abuse and rushed training. But will any of the immovable 40% who voted for this start to question our embrace of cruelty on a national level? Meh...Look at the baubles!

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, the govt spun the story of Abu Ghraib as being a few bad apples that didn't represent American values. And of course it's bullshit, because it's so incredibly predictable what outcomes you will get from doing things like this. Torture and abuse are American values, because that is what America consistently and repeatedly engages in.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This is how they will do their kristelnacht (day of the rope)

They are gathering data on all of us

That is what the army is for

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 53 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Night of Broken Glass, dude

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

they're saying america's version will be broad daylight lynchings. he's translating not the german to english, but the nazi to maga

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago

nah no worries. it was a little subtle. i'm glad to have gotten to illuminate what i thought was a solid bit of... humor's the wrong word…

solid bit of something

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

It’s from The Turner Diaries. If you follow Stormfront/4chan spaces, they specifically want the day of the rope. In the novel, it’s described how they hang “race traitors.”

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It's Kristallnacht, Christel has nothing to do with any of this.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

...they are paying bounties on extra-judicial arrests...

bounties.

for arrest without trial.

...barring decisive impeachment and conviction in eighteen months, there is no way this doesn't end in blood and fire...

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

But but the Epstein files bro just wait for you'll see everyone will confirm for sure again that he's a rapist and we'll defeat facism bro don't forget the Epstein files trust me bro

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Fine them. Find their families. Publish their info.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's too bad a doxxing website for ICE would get shut down easily or the operators disappeared...

...otherwise I'd totally create it.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 10 points 7 hours ago

Right? You could even use the domain

https://icelist.is/

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 14 points 11 hours ago

We know what they want to do with the money because we saw WWI and WWII; create an army directly responsive to the president to facilitate ethnic cleansing and usher in eugenics.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

People should start following bros back to their operating centers then following them home. Create a catalog publicly showing their homes to the public. See how that goes for them SS officers.

When I worked for DoD. This was CBP and Other three letter groups biggest fears. Having their private lives invaded.

[–] chonkyninja@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

.308 SBR’s to the rescue.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

No wonder they went so hard against antifascist early on...

[–] NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

I wonder what measures they'll be taking to filter out a would-be saboteur? Would be really hard if the target is to hire 10k people.

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

I wish those of us who stood on "moral righteousness" when voting (in this case not voting) had enough brain power to think about the genocide they helped to trigger back home.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 14 hours ago

bUt AmErIcAnS nEeD tO gEt UnCoMfOrTaBlE tO hElP gAzAnS.

how is this helping Gazans? things don't seem any better to me in the levant

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If you think that's bad, imagine the kind of fuckups who would nominate someone that'd campaign so terribly that they couldn't wipe the floor with him (four times in a row!)

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You're not wrong there, the leaders of the DNC are absolute fucking idiots.

But so are the morally righteous idiots that decided they would help another genocide along while making the genocide they "cared" about worse.

[–] griff@lemmings.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The GOP-dominated US federal government continues its malevolent efforts to Make America Grotesque AF

[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

...give it some time, and it'll be death squad. Just plain killing people, cheaper than sending them away.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

Become brown shirts of course, silly rabbit.