Leopards Ate My Face

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.

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.

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.

for an anarchist perspective on this topic: https://crimethinc.com/books/no-wall-they-can-build.

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.

So who's supposed to oppose the Republicans who we know are responsible for most bad things happening?

Because if the democrats aren't interested in opposing them we need another party that's willing to oppose Republicans.

I like how in this analogy, republicans are Hitler and democrats are the guy who brought Hitler to power. Very apt.

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

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?

Weird that inflation only seems to really exist for the carceral state.