"According to DHS data, in the five-county Los Angeles area ICE, under the Biden Administration, made nearly thirty-eight thousand arrests and detentions in 2024.
Few, if any, resulted in conflict or protests. ICE followed Secretary Mayorcas' policy ("Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigrat…
"According to DHS data, in the five-county Los Angeles area ICE, under the Biden Administration, made nearly thirty-eight thousand arrests and detentions in 2024.
Few, if any, resulted in conflict or protests. ICE followed Secretary Mayorcas' policy ("Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law," September 30th, 2021) and used low-profile tactics to conduct enforcement and removal operations.
What changed? The top one percent of the Republican Party- billionaires, financiers, real estate developers and CEOs- could care less about illegal immigration; they want a lower capital gains tax rate and less regulation and enforcement. But, the MAGA voters, ninety-eight percent of the party, provide the votes the one percent needs to stay in power: no MAGA support, no tax cuts.
The MAGA base hates non-white immigrants and religiously believes they pose an existential threat to "their America," and, in exchange for letting the Republican one-percent do what it wants, demands that this party elite use the power of the US Government to literally "Put the boots" to immigrants, illegal or not.
So, Los Angeles-area ICE agents dumped their low-key, rules-and-procedure based posture for disproportionate and militant tactics designed to inflame tensions in a region where immigrants, legal and illegal, are inextricably enmeshed in society, all to please their MAGA base and give them the cruelty they demand."
Borrowed from a comment in the NY Times:
"According to DHS data, in the five-county Los Angeles area ICE, under the Biden Administration, made nearly thirty-eight thousand arrests and detentions in 2024.
Few, if any, resulted in conflict or protests. ICE followed Secretary Mayorcas' policy ("Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law," September 30th, 2021) and used low-profile tactics to conduct enforcement and removal operations.
What changed? The top one percent of the Republican Party- billionaires, financiers, real estate developers and CEOs- could care less about illegal immigration; they want a lower capital gains tax rate and less regulation and enforcement. But, the MAGA voters, ninety-eight percent of the party, provide the votes the one percent needs to stay in power: no MAGA support, no tax cuts.
The MAGA base hates non-white immigrants and religiously believes they pose an existential threat to "their America," and, in exchange for letting the Republican one-percent do what it wants, demands that this party elite use the power of the US Government to literally "Put the boots" to immigrants, illegal or not.
So, Los Angeles-area ICE agents dumped their low-key, rules-and-procedure based posture for disproportionate and militant tactics designed to inflame tensions in a region where immigrants, legal and illegal, are inextricably enmeshed in society, all to please their MAGA base and give them the cruelty they demand."
Exactly 💯
Well said Gary, the great replacement theory is fucking lunacy!!