ICE agents have been told to continue conducting enforcement operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about negative effects on the food industry.
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I think my skepticism was justified.
trump wants 3k deportees a day…
ICE won’t go after actual criminals or gang members because they’re scared…
They already can’t meet the quota, even going after workers allowed to be here. And they’re never going after actual criminals because that’s dangerous and difficult.
But no matter what they do, they’re eventually going to run out of targets who will comply. Either because they deported them all already. Or because they rethought what compliance gets them.
In fascism, when the numbers get too low, the criteria changes. They’ll start figuring out how to deport legal immigrants next, or whoever the next most vulnerable group is. They will openly deny it and then they’ll just do it, in standard gaslighting fashion.
We are ALL on the list. They chip away at whoever is easiest to target next. They villainize the immigrants, then the religiously different (Muslims, Jews, etc.), then the political enemies, threats or even perceived threats, even within the MAGA camp, and so forth. They just start with the lowest hanging fruit. They won’t stop until the orchard is completely stripped and burned down. There are the more safe and less safe but ultimately NO ONE is safe.
Add mental illness, LGBTQ, and autism to that list. It’s all straight out of 30s-40s Nazi Germany’s playbook.