A confrontational legislative hearing Monday — with a witness calling a state senator a fascist and lawmakers battling over whether the state should put a bounty on undocumented immigrants — set the tone for this year’s debate on immigration and the state’s role in border security. The most aggress...

A confrontational legislative hearing Monday — with a witness calling a state senator a fascist and lawmakers battling over whether the state should put a bounty on undocumented immigrants — set the tone for this year’s debate on immigration and the state’s role in border security.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s not what’s happening, yet.

    https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-border-security-enforcement-ice-cb40a6a7e2d94582aa0774be47a8ab36

    A dozen officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement gathered before dawn Monday in a Maryland parking lot, then fanned out to the Washington suburbs to find their targets: someone wanted in El Salvador for homicide, a person convicted of armed robbery, a migrant found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse material and another with drug and gun convictions. All were in the country illegally.

    It’s a little fucking alarming the government knew about such people and hadn’t acted already. WTH?!

    some of those arrests result from random ID checks

    Not quite. The Biden admin wouldn’t let ICE arrest any illegals they found as a result of a targeted search, as described above. Now they can.

    So for now, I’m fine with this. Even the “collaterals” in this case were due for arrest or deportation.

    Of those “collaterals,” one had an aggravated theft conviction. Another had already been deported once, and two others had final orders of removal.

    Problem being, they’ll run out of legit targets before the electorate runs out of hate. That’s when the concentration camps really get rolling.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 days ago

      You bring up the one example of them going after criminals with multiple news articles in the last week about them going after people with no records? NPR had stories this morning about people with legal status being taken by ICE.

      Get this bad faith bullshit out of here.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 days ago

        Facts are now “bad faith”. Is that like “alternative facts”?

        Only thing I’ve seen is the school that turned the USSS away thinking they were ICE. (And we still haven’t heard why they were there in the first place, weird in itself.)

        Many articles about the Navajo Nation being alarmed about “reports” of ICE sweeping members up. Well FFS, did they or didn’t they?! Not a single article confirming this, just “reports” that “maybe”.

        Scanned NPR.com just now. Only 1 item related to immigration: How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools

        Well? Just because a story is plausible and what you expect does not equal reality. Wait a minute? Are you a conservative?

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          No. What you’re doing is selecting facts that give a biased viewpoint. Just like when Fox News shows 9 crimes by minorities for every crime by a white person, even though there are more white criminals.

          Even now you deny the existence of things that we’ve all seen on Lemmy.