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Are you seriously talking about how ICE can jackboot more effectively?!?
No, he's not. He talking about how ICE can do their job - which actually IS to find and remove people who do not have permission to be in the country - legally, humanely, and more effectively.
It's not humane, legal, or effective to round up people en masse and dig into their immigration status. It overloads all of the systems related to immigration and deportation.
Holding facilities get more people than they can handle, so inhumane conditions result.
The legal system (courts and DOJ lawyers, in particular) get overwhelmed with cases, so delays and poor judicial decisions result. Legal residents and citizens get caught up in the system and can't get their cases heard quickly to correct the error of being detained in the first place.
Both of these conditions cause protests, which lead to interactions between ordinary citizens and federal agents, for which those agents are not well equipped to handle effectively. This results in protestors getting injured and even killed at the hands of those federal agents. That causes even more protests, forcing the federal agents to spend time on protestors instead of finding and detaining the actual people they are tasked to find.
All in all, very ineffective, turning those federal agents into the jackbooted thugs we know today.
But if they'd do their job right, focusing solely on finding the worst offenders to remove instead of meeting some arbitrary daily numbers promulgated by a sociopath, there would be few errors, few protests, and the actual offenders would be removed more quickly - AND without being jackbooted thugs.
This isn't rocket science. But then again, the current administration isn't filled with rocket scientists. It's filled with power-hungry fools willing to do whatever it takes to stay on the good side of the Fool in Chief and therefore retain their power.
--Peter
