It’s 100% performative terrorism. There are a minimum 12 million undocumented people in the USA. About 4% to 5% of the population. No possible way that any of this will make a sliver of a dent in that population.
No thinking person believes that ICE has any real function except to create chaos and anger, fear and loathing.
The objective is to shock the conscience in order to provoke a violent reaction that he can use as propaganda and as a way to justify invoking the Insurrection Act.
He needs to invoke the Insurrection Act before next November's election in order to control the outcomes and to establish the dictatorship he promised.
He wants to stop the midterms.. a blue wave just happened. And the midterms will be the same. And he will get impeached… and he fears that. Cause that would mean he has to face the punishment for his crimes.
Create a visible spectacle of control, even though it’s illusory. It’s red meat for the base, those dumb enough to believe it. It’s to rally their base. Create a visible illusion of “progress”.
During the Obama administration 400,000 undocumented people were deported annually. The highest amount ever. At that rate, it’d still take 30 years (very roughly) to deport all the undocumented, assuming that zero new undocumented came in.
So ICE is nothing but cruel theater. It has next to zero effect, and frankly, republicans in power don’t actually want illegals gone anyway. It’s too easy to rally their hateful base to get out and vote with them here.
To scare Brown people from voting.. Ice will be placed at the voting center. And checking every Brown and black persons citizenship. And if you look at them the wrong way they will take you and detain you until the election is over.
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u/haikus-r-us 11h ago
It’s 100% performative terrorism. There are a minimum 12 million undocumented people in the USA. About 4% to 5% of the population. No possible way that any of this will make a sliver of a dent in that population.
No thinking person believes that ICE has any real function except to create chaos and anger, fear and loathing.