You say it’s not an effective strategy. Is that a belief? A feeling? What evidence do you have that it’s not?
And they are not just truly going after the “bad players.” To quote: “You’re going to see more work site enforcement than you’ve ever seen in the history of this nation,” Thomas D. Homan, the White House border czar told reporters recently. “We’re going to flood the zone.”
Trump Targets Workplaces as Immigration Crackdown Widens
Many industries have become dependent on immigrant labor. Some workplace raids have been met with protest.www.nytimes.com
Shouldn’t the employers who hired those people have whatever laws exist enforced for their punishment as well? They broke the law, did they not?
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Probably because the original mission for ICE has shifted from public safety (focusing on actual criminals) to an obsession with increasing deportation numbers that undermines the agency's original mission.
Mission creep.
"This current administration is chaotic. It's moving at breakneck speeds. They're under tremendous pressure," said John Sandweg, who was acting director of ICE under President Barack Obama, from August 2013 to February 2014.
"When you have your officers and agents focused on grabbing as many people as you can. What you're doing is you're diverting the resources that could be focused on those more serious criminal populations, the real problem here," Sandweg said.
Sandweg believes that an obsession with increasing deportation numbers undermines the agency's mission to protect public safety. According to the former director, a more effective strategy would resemble the more targeted enforcement focus of the Obama years.
"If they were utilizing the Obama-era strategies and tactics that we utilized, I would have far less concerns," Sandweg said. He emphasized that a more effective strategy would be to prioritize removing individuals who pose significant public safety threats.
"If you say, hey, our goal is to deport as many people as possible, by definition, what that ends up resulting in is a lower quality of removal. It's just easier and faster to apprehend individuals who don't pose a threat to public safety than it is to apprehend individuals who are dangerous," said Sandweg.
"Gangsters, serious criminals are just harder to find. You know, that's just a population that's more difficult, more challenging to find … in a perfect world, ICE is no longer measured by the number of people that they've deported, but rather upon, you know, the quality of those removals, who they're getting off the streets.
"Unfortunately, the administration's taken an opposite approach."
Sandweg said: "Trump has created this narrative that the agency wasn't working at full capacity under Biden—but that's just not true. ICE was already operating at capacity, arresting as many migrants as they possibly could, given their resources. So, the frustration from the White House comes from unrealistic expectations."
As Trump ramps up mass deportations, critics like Sandweg warn that prioritizing numbers over safety could let the most dangerous offenders slip through the cracks.
According to Sandweg, focusing on mass arrests strains ICE's limited resources and pulls agents away from pursuing violent criminals and national security threats. This, he argues, ultimately makes the country less safe.
Supporters of Trump's approach, however, contend that a broader enforcement strategy deters illegal immigration and restores the rule of law. They argue that every undocumented individual is violating federal statutes, and removing as many people as possible sends a clear message that the U.S. will not tolerate unlawful entry.
Obama-era ICE chief identifies Trump's biggest deportation problem
Trump administration's approach is "chaotic" and unrealistic, says former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
And yet panties were quite twisted over Hunter Biden's drug use.
I’d be all in favor of this and would take higher prices to get it done.
I’m going to entertain your argument, which by the way, is a little disingenuous. Because, the left would never hold a full court press position on type of law enforcement (with the exception of pushing anti 2A laws). Unless you are are saying we need to do things, like going back to broken windows policing, and arresting every Tom, Dick, and Harry that is carrying a nickel bag of sticks and stems to stop the drug trade. Because we know it ain’t Tom, Dick, and Harry to be the ones that get charged and go to prison.
Your strategy would be an effective strategy for targeting illegals coming here for work. I’m not advocating against it. Yes, I’m in favor of employers being punished for it. However, there are several reasons why it won’t stop illegals that are coming here to commit real crime (prostitution, drugs, trafficking etc). Some of those should be obvious, like overburdening a strained DOJ, and having next to no impact on organized and gang related crime.
BTW, going after the true criminal types is what most people, including myself, are in favor of. Targeting Home Depot migrants is more the way of the hardliners. That is reflected in recent polls as well. But, if ICE is conducting a targeted operation against an illegal with a list of felonies, and they happen to pick up a dozen more illegals in the process and chose to deport them, then, c’est la vie, or more appropriately, adios, I guess.
Trump's deportation program nets positive approval amid contrasting views over its scope, CBS News poll finds
Americans think tariffs will lead to higher prices; Trump's perceived goals fare better than his approach.
I believe a lie is a lie. No matter if it’s a white lie or criminal lie.
The issue is Utopia doesn’t exist.
LOL
And the most important one...opium!
Remember all the people in this thread who said we knew what a second Trump term would look like because we saw his first term? (Some are still here.) No matter how many times you or I or anyone else pointed out that the sane people who acted as guardrails were GONE - they just whistled past that graveyard. Some of them still think everything is fine.
That’s a good question. Why WOULD Trump do this?
Hey! That was mostly peaceful and fiery!
Man do you have that right.
I think rhetoric only causes problems when Trump does it, he just causes people to lose control. Almost like his mere presence causes them to become…deranged
Most protests are organized by someone. Not necessarily democratic operatives but the protestors always have their own political message.
So then does that mean Trump (and/or his supporters) are Nazi sympathizers?
No, but maybe you and definitely much of America wholesale believes that the neo Nazi party is on the rise in America (it isn’t).
Depends on if you give credit to either side for being organized enough to do it. I tend to think given the size of protests there’s more to the democratic ones but that’s just a guess.
