cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45600393
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I've been hearing these comments about ICE ramping up. Here is an example:
For context, the US gov gave these goons the budget of the German military with nearly no supervision. And as of right now, the budget renewal bill passing around in Congress is trying to give them even more obscene money with no increase in regulation.
It would be unreasonable to expect that they are not going to use that money to increase their ranks and send goons back in. They are probably going to train them a bit better and scale back the naked maliciousness. When they murdered two Americans a few months back, they were under expressed orders from Miller to violently antagonize protestors because Miller believes that violence scares peaceful people.
After the public backlash, as of now, it seems that the Miller doctrine is off. But ICE still has absurd levels of money and a mandate to develop itself as Trump's personal imperial guard. They are going to go back to every major blue city and cause more havoc, even if their tactics improve to prevent being in the news as much.
They've been actively terrorizing non-white people in red states the entire time, and we don't hear much about it because red states are happy to support that. The Guardian says ICE and CBP have had about the same amount of arrests in Feb and March of this year as July and August of last year. So they have been active, just trying to keep out of the news by harassing people in communities that allow it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data
BTW, as usual, the majority of people in ICE detention had no criminal record, per The Guardian's reporting.
And while I'm adding notes, we currently have one of the worst economies I've seen in my lifetime aside from the 2008 crisis (caused by Republican policies then as well). This anti-immigration venom from the WH is part of the problem. Economists know that immigration is a net positive for the economy. It creates jobs in addition to growth of GDP and opportunity. Here is a report presented by economists to the US Congress from 2016:
although immigrants increase the supply of labor, they also spend their wages on homes, food, TVs and other goods and services and expand domestic economic demand. This increased demand, in turn, generates more jobs to build those homes, make and sell food, and transport TVs. [...]
Economists generally agree that the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy are broadly positive. Immigrants, whether high- or low-skilled, legal or illegal, are unlikely to replace native-born workers or reduce their wages over the long-term
After all the damage the Trump 2.0 has done to the economy so far, insisting on this damage to immigration is continuing to sink the economy.
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Added Context:
I've been hearing these comments about ICE ramping up. Here is an example:
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/22/midway-blitz-is-over-but-ice-is-still-quietly-targeting-chicago-immigrants-especially-at-court/
For context, the US gov gave these goons the budget of the German military with nearly no supervision. And as of right now, the budget renewal bill passing around in Congress is trying to give them even more obscene money with no increase in regulation.
It would be unreasonable to expect that they are not going to use that money to increase their ranks and send goons back in. They are probably going to train them a bit better and scale back the naked maliciousness. When they murdered two Americans a few months back, they were under expressed orders from Miller to violently antagonize protestors because Miller believes that violence scares peaceful people.
After the public backlash, as of now, it seems that the Miller doctrine is off. But ICE still has absurd levels of money and a mandate to develop itself as Trump's personal imperial guard. They are going to go back to every major blue city and cause more havoc, even if their tactics improve to prevent being in the news as much.
They've been actively terrorizing non-white people in red states the entire time, and we don't hear much about it because red states are happy to support that. The Guardian says ICE and CBP have had about the same amount of arrests in Feb and March of this year as July and August of last year. So they have been active, just trying to keep out of the news by harassing people in communities that allow it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data
BTW, as usual, the majority of people in ICE detention had no criminal record, per The Guardian's reporting.
And while I'm adding notes, we currently have one of the worst economies I've seen in my lifetime aside from the 2008 crisis (caused by Republican policies then as well). This anti-immigration venom from the WH is part of the problem. Economists know that immigration is a net positive for the economy. It creates jobs in addition to growth of GDP and opportunity. Here is a report presented by economists to the US Congress from 2016:
After all the damage the Trump 2.0 has done to the economy so far, insisting on this damage to immigration is continuing to sink the economy.