Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" in the U.S. were arrested and hundreds more flown out of the country on military aircraft as President Trump's promised mass deportation operation got underway, the White House said.
No due process, no evidence, no documentation, no oversight, no warrants, no probable cause... this is your law and order, Republicans?
There is zero chance that in rushing to "deport" these people that they get everything right. They are going to (if they haven't already) kidnap American citizens and kick them from the country along with the undocumented people. Moreover, they dumped all of those people in the same place, Venezuela. There is also zero chance that all of those undocumented people were from Venezuela. They don't give a fuck. They'll throw the baby out with the bath water, and they will strand people thousands of miles away from their homes, their countries of origin, and without any resources to manage in a country that they constantly demonize.
As long as they're not here anymore, nothing else matters to them. People voted for this. It makes me fucking sick.
Given Trump's support in the Latino community, it's also pretty much guaranteed that some number of the American citizens who they manage to round up and deport to some random country will be Trump voters. I wonder what that will feel like.
I think it's possible that they'll blame ICE specifically, while still holding on to their loyalty to Trump, telling themselves that the migration authorities have always been awful, which is true.
It's just a start. They're trying to figure out a way to do it, that will let them get around any of the legal restrictions that are currently an obstacle. Trump has repeatedly said that he hates that people get to go before a judge, and make their case for why they should stay in the country or present any evidence that the government got it wrong. And then the judge gets to decide, instead of ICE just being their own roaming kings of the land, upending people's lives and moving on, unbound by the structures of man.
I mean last time they gave the judges a trial time metric and an indicator of the "correct" ratio of deportation vs asylum granting. If it becomes extra judicial we're really fucked.
I sort of assumed deporting a few hundred people a day was the minimum in a country of 330 million to make it even worth having a concept of deportation. If you fall below those figures you might as well get rid of it completely and close down the relevant departments.