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?
This total includes $45 billion to create a sprawling detention system (nearly five times the annual budget for the Bureau of Prisons)
Now why would they need such a big budget for concentration camps if they’re deporting the illegal immigrants? Seems like a big waste to build all those facilities and have them sit empty after the job is done.
Or is it more likely they’re going to start rounding up other people too? Trump just announced they’re going to go after homeless and mentally ill people. And we know they consider trans people to be a danger to themselves and gay/bi as deviants. We’ve also seen a rise on attacks against political opponents. Trump even wants to charge Obama with treason.
This is exactly the Nazi playbook from the 30s. And the American public is letting him do it.
Look on the bright side! All this money is going to be contracted out to companies that these new oligarchs control, and by the time they funnel most of the money to their wallet only a handful of new prisons will actually get built. We will have to hope the grift can get in the way of the the new Holocaust that Stephen Miller is planning,
One of these days these guys are going to be in a shootout and its all going to go south guickly.
Think the Bundy stand-off, only with live ammunition exchange.
It’s almost like Trump wants to make his own personal army that takes orders from him alone.
Someone else posted this in a comment thread. Just want to make it more visible…
Brown shirt losers
The ICE agent’s comin’, the sun’s zoomin’ in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin’ thin
Engines stop runnin’, but I have no fear
'Cause ‘Murica’s drownin’ and I … I live by the riverOk, I have some fear.
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.
…give it some time, and it’ll be death squad. Just plain killing people, cheaper than sending them away.
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.
…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…
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
Fine them. Find their families. Publish their info.
It’s too bad a doxxing website for ICE would get shut down easily or the operators disappeared…
…otherwise I’d totally create it.
Right? You could even use the domain
Could be backed up as an .onion site relatively easily by people who know what they’re doing.
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.
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.
They are going to go after trans people.
Is anyone going to do anything when we start being committed?
Please, don’t wait, tell everyone you know IRL who’s in that position to make ‘arrangements for travel out of country’.
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.
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.
The only thing I can think of are the wooden hobby drones like the ones Ukraine used in that one successful strike against Russia.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
We know what they want to do with the money because we saw WWI and WWII;
We might. Unfortunately, they purposely stopped teaching this shit to zoomers. And Boomers are a lost cause at this point.
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!
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.
No wonder they went so hard against antifascist early on…
