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You don't understand, ICE was deporting brown people when we thought they were terrorists, now that ICE is deporting brown people because Trump thinks they're terrorists, it's now evil.
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And how many of those years were ICE straight up kidnapping people to throw into dungeons?
All of them. It was their founding mandate. It’s simply operating more openly and at unimaginable scale this year.
Ask the ICE victims because they were the scary brown people plotting the next 9/11 but never found guilty.
That's overly reductive and you know it.
Wait no you can't do that! The Democrats would never eat my face, I can only conceive of that happening to Republicans
If the world were a binary meme world this might make sense, but it's more like saying stuff happened during the day... night... day... night...
There needs to be some kind of immigration enforcement just to handle the processing of people as they complete the immigration process. This requires some level of funding, and due to inflation and growing populations it will always result in record breaking funding at some point.
Democrats were denouncing ICE in 2017-2020 because the administration was ordering ICE to pursue practices like stealing children. They are denouncing them now because ICE is kidnapping people off the street and when they show up for court hearings when they are complying with court orders.
This list implies that the Dems are wrong for ever funding ICE and that they are hypocrites for complaining when Republicans are in power. But it glosses over the nuance that ICE really is used far more maliciously when Trump is in power and that denouncing of the specific actions of ICE are completely valid because those are their jackboot thug years.
Dems are shitty on immigration because they are complicit with lowering immigration maximums and excluding too many people while not promoting reforms that improve how ICE behaves. But it isn't the same thing as supporting the ICEstappo when in office, because they dial it back to a shitty level instead of full on villain mode.
just to handle the processing of people as they complete the immigration process.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) handles this. They and ICE were founded in 2002 along Customs and Border Patrol. ICE is the result of the merging of two separate enforcement agencies: part of the US Customs Services and the enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Services.
Illegal entries caught within 100 miles of the border weren't classified as deportations until the George W. Bush administration. Obama was colloquially known as Deporter in Chief for these high numbers.
There needs to be some kind of immigration enforcement just to handle the processing of people as they complete the immigration process.
No there doesn't. We don't have anything similar like a dedicated anti-immigration police in Canada or in the EU. There are border protection agencies and there are immigration bureaucracies, but this special immigration police thing going on in the US, is not a thing.
Ice is a newish agency formed after 9/11 with the also dystopianly named DHS. It was a product of the time of patriot acts and TSA. None of them are needed or helpful or going away.
What makes you think "handle the processing of people as they complete the immigration process" had to include anti-immigration police?
I get the feeling you don't disagree with the parent commenter at all.
ICE is a law enforcement agency. It's a police. With a special immigration mandate.
I guess I am not clear what is meant by “handle the processing of people as they complete the immigration process”. In Canada, things like applications and forms are handled by IRCC, the immigration ministry. Other than that, there is CBSA, which is like your CBP, but we don't have a specialized interior immigration police.
Absolutely. The solution is comprehensive immigration reform. Until Congress passes it, we will continue to deport people due to our overcomplicated and flawed system.
It’s also important to note that more immigrants cross the border under Democratic presidents, and most deportations under those presidents are people caught at the border, versus the rounding up and deporting of working, tax-paying immigrants who have been here for years.
Yes, which is why ICE and all immigration enforcement under Trump is many, many times worse than under the Dems and still would be even if the reforms were in place because Trump is ignoring the laws and court orders that should be preventing him from deporting people to 3rd party countries just like he ignored the orders against separating children from parents.
Even if the Dems were sugar and spice and everything nice we would still have some kind of immigration enforcement in place and it would have been twisted into to what it is now because conservatives don't care about following the laws they dislike.
True. It’s long overdue regardless. We are still using the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Obama pushed for immigration reform, but all Congress was able to pass with a weak majority was DACA in 2012.
Republicans want a broken system so they have a scapegoat for elections.
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weird how you focus on Democrats when the Republicans are the problem here
everyone who gives a fuck knows republicans are the problem, what many people don't realize is that the democrats merrily sit at the same table as republicans, so people need to be informed about that so they can recognize that both parties are shit and there needs to be actual change.
They're both problems, and fixing the Democrats is the solution to both problems. Democrats repeatedly embracing the status quo is what lets Republicans keep winning, and Republicans won't change as long as they're winning.
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Weird how all these anti-Democrats think that the only competitive left party in the US failing will somehow lead to the Republicans relinquishing power instead of consolidating it.
Russia had two or three fair elections after the fall of the Soviet Union, until Putin came into power and now he “wins” every election with 98% of the vote.
But I’m sure if the Democratic Party disappeared tomorrow then somehow Republicans would just give up their power. Lol.
And all of these "vote-blue or die" people are the reason the Dems are totally fucking useless and only pretend to care.
Protip, you can still vote blue while still recognizing they are totally fucking useless clowns, sucking their dick while you do it doesnt change anything.
Lol bro, go ahead and don’t vote then. Maybe if we let the GOP win all three branches uncontested for the next century and they dismantle education, gerrymander or just outright remove fair elections, and kill the planet with climate change, then people will feel really bad and adopt your politics. It’s worked so many times in the past.
Also there’s a difference between valid criticisms of the Democratic Party and this post which is demonizing them on the same level as the GOP simply because Democrats spent money on their border patrol. As if Obama or Biden were the ones who introduced Alligator Alcatraz.
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Average Lemmy user, "There is no difference between the politician on the left and the politician on the right."
Anyone who knows the guy on the left: "Hindenburg went out of his way to empower Hitler and the Nazis when it was clear that his coalition was failing. Instead of working with the Social Democrats, he empowered the Nazi. Without his choices, there's a chance that the Hitler wouldn't have come to power. He's an awful person."
You: "so you think there's no difference between the two?!"
The guy on the left appointed Hitler and then gave him power with the Enabling Act and aided in giving him unchecked powers.
So without Hindenburg, Hitler wouldn't have been put into power. So he's far from a good guy.
Still waiting for the Democrats to start fighting Nazis
But they wrote strongly worded letters, that's the same right?
The only two who tried to shoot Trump were right wing. I have seen any leftists/socialists try and stop Trump either.
Shooting Trump wouldn't really help? He'd just become a martyr for MAGA and JD Vance would do all the shit Trump was going to do, but also use the assassination as an excuse to deport leftists.
This all under a picture of Hitler hah
I was just going to point out that deportations were higher under Biden.
Then I remembered who that guy in the picture is!
Hindenburg literally appointed Hitler chancellor, approved the Reichstag Fire Decree, and gave the Nazis emergency powers by singing the Enabling Act of 1933. Do you not even credit him slightly for the rise of Hitler and the Nazis?
Lebensraum, and the implied means to achieve it, was a policy goal of WW1 as it happens.
That's kind of the idea I was thinking of. Lemmy users would focus on the bad of Hindenburg and declare him identical to Hitler. Hindenburg wasn't a saint but it's wrong to say there's no difference between Hindenburg and Hitler.
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Between 2011 and 2015 the ICE budget stayed the same or fell in 2 years.
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Democrats enforced Obama era rules of 72 hour holding limitations for women and children, and followed a criminal-only persecution which actually deported more people than Trump despite the number of cages Trump filled. Thats what this is all about. Trump is filling cages for the private prison industry's profits.
If you don't want the DNC to compromise then elect more than 50 of them to the Senate, and a strong house majority.
You say inflation makes numbers go up each year?
Weird that inflation only seems to really exist for the carceral state.
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