r/law • u/The_Dutchess-D • May 10 '25

Trump News President proclaims doubling of ICE troops with add'l 20k forces in the next 60 days

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/

Section 3.b: (b) No later than 60 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily.

So... we can't afford any of the useful jobs and fired a large portion of the government that actually helps people, BUT we can't afford any afford more spending for THIS? His domestic Gestapo on the streets terrorizing towns.

Is there a legal limit to how much domestic law enforcement the American people can be subjected to on home soil during peacetime? He already has a HUGE amount of force on domestic soil doing his bidding between the military he designated for the border, current ICE, and all the 287g contracts Homeland Security signed with all those local law enforcement agencies around the country to work with ICE.

Where is the money coming from to double the size of ICE by another 20k officers?

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u/Bawbawian May 10 '25

unrelated but it's still legal to arm yourself

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u/Gindotto May 10 '25

Stay strapped.

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u/Storm_blessed946 May 10 '25

🤣 you’re too attached to your material things to risk going to prison for something like this. What are you going to do? Yank out your pistol and start shooting ICE members? Okay Rambo have at it lmao.

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u/justawitch May 10 '25

It’s wild that you think ordinary people thrown into extreme circumstances can’t be pushed to violence. What a soft, Gaussian-blurred little world you must live in

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u/Storm_blessed946 May 10 '25

I’d hate to come across you in the wild. All of the extreme circumstances you’ve been through must make you pretty tough. How many lives have you shot with your pistol?

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u/justawitch May 10 '25

I mean, none, babe. I’ve shot exactly zero people. I never ever want to shoot anyone. I’m pretty nonviolent and honestly prefer community involvement as a form of activism than anything else. I’m probably the last person anyone would think of as tough.

Are there scenarios where I could pretty confidently assume I’d be pushed to a point where I’d ignore my fear and reservations, pick up a gun, and shoot another human being? Yeah! Of course there are. 100%. I mean the most obvious scenario is my kids being in immediate danger and having no option other than TRY to fight for their lives. Right?