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Trump administration 2024-2028

Blackadder1916 said:
While looking to see if there were any online photos of 1990 flooding to illustrate my personal tale, I came across this.



Flooding is so common in that area that 1990 was considered insignificant (I don't recall any reports of related deaths). Just a few years earlier a youth camp tragedy similar to this year's event occurred.
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Another example of people sounding the alarm that shit is broken and needs to be fixed and nothing is done until people are killed. Far too many examples to be listed here.
 
Russian dissident Gary Kasparov has questions about ICE’s juiced up budget.

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Don’t Miss This Part of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

Putin has Rosgvardiya. Trump has ICE.
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Politicized actions are matched by politicized rhetoric. If Trump administration officials didn’t stretch the limits of the Hatch Act every single day, then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s formal press release on the OBBBA’s passage would be headline news. Noem praised the president on government stationary using a permutation of Trump’s MAGA campaign slogan. That’s on top of attacks against “fake news” on the department’s official website. How are these sorts of statements supposed to inspire public confidence that ICE is a professional law enforcement agency and not a private presidential militia? How will ICE be more disciplined and accountable with a bloated budget?
Conditions in ICE detention centers are often substandard, to put it mildly. The majority of OBBBA funding for ICE goes to more detention centers. Should we expect that money to support quality of life improvements for detainees or simply multiply the problem? What are we supposed to think of Republicans’ intentions here when some are hawking “Alligator Alcatraz” merchandise that mocks the plight of detainees?
Finally, let’s return to ICE’s roots: immigration enforcement. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has remained fairly constant over the past two decades. Hiring 10,000 new officers, as the OBBBA envisions, would put the ratio of ICE agents to undocumented migrants at around 1:400. That’s within striking distance of the Stasi’s one secret policeman to every 166 East Germans and far ahead of the Gestapo’s 1:2,000.
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Still, as a veteran of the Russian opposition, I’ll indulge in one bit of my own analysis.
In 2016, Vladimir Putin created Rosgvardiya—a new, militarized domestic law enforcement apparatus. Russia had no shortage of police agencies; it inherited several from the Soviet Union, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). So what made Rosgvardiya different? It operated directly under Putin’s authority.
Unlike Putin and Rosgvardiya, Trump did not create ICE. However, the 50% boost in ICE’s ranks that Trump is pursuing under OBBBA would change the face of any agency. Now that Gavin Newsom has taken Trump to court over the latter’s deployment of the California National Guard, the president is likely looking for more hassle-free and pliant institutions to do his bidding, and ICE could be the perfect outlet for those ambitions. If nothing else, ICE’s behavior in the past half year ought to make a dramatic expansion of the agency the object of intense public scrutiny.
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Navy_Pete said:
Between this and turning the military and ICEholes loose on the populace pretty wild times.
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Unless I’m missing something, ICE targets people who are in the US illegally, do they not? How many US citizens have been detained AND deported?
 
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Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and US officials

The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using AI-driven technology.
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To think they originally wanted to put a 10 year ban on AI regulation in the BBB. Shame that the intelligence and cyber security branches have been severely gutted, probably could have helped out.
 
Retired AF Guy said:
Spotted a report (so far) unconfirmed, that Canadian-owned GardaWorld may be providing security for some of Trumps detention centres.
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They apparently are involved. Not the first time they've played in the immigration detention and transport space, both in Canada as well as the US - with mixed results.

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Here are the contractors who helped build Alligator Alcatraz

Contractors include CDR Maguire, Doodie Calls and GardaWorld.
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Here are the contractors who helped build Alligator Alcatraz
Contractors include CDR Maguire, Doodie Calls and GardaWorld.
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The other state contractors include the port-a-potty company Doodie Calls, GardaWorld, Garner Environmental Services, Gothams LLC, Granny’s Alliance and Longview International Technological Solutions.
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GardaWorld Cash, one of several companies affiliated with GardaWorld — one of the world’s largest security services companies, according to its website — gave $5,000 to DeSantis’ Empower Parents political action committee in 2018. The political organization, which went by Friends of Ron DeSantis at the time, was created to support DeSantis’ first bid for governor.

GardaWorld has also been eyed for Florida’s immigration agenda before — they were one of the vendors picked by the state to fly migrants out of Florida.

A representative from GardaWorld did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday evening.
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McG said:
At least four children with US citizenship this year.
There is also Esteban Tiznado-Reyna if you go back to 2020.
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4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.
 
Quirky said:
4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.
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Unidentified people with guns disappearing gardeners into unmarked vans is a great job - neat. Surely ICE will go after the people who hire illegals, right?
 
Quirky said:
4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.
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So there's no room for a compassionate approach in your world?
 
Quirky said:
4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.
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Being ignorant of a topic doesn’t stop you from having strong opinions does it. The four children are three different families, not one.
Your morals on this are also quite fluid, with you supporting ICE because they aren’t deporting citizens to now you support ICE because the citizens they deport are who you feel are a lesser class.
 
Let’s be realistic. Most of you criticizing this are only saying so because it’s Trump.
 
Retired AF Guy said:
Spotted a report (so far) unconfirmed, that Canadian-owned GardaWorld may be providing security for some of Trumps detention centres.
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But yet did ICE arrest the owner of the car wash for hiring illegals and breaking how many federal/state labour/employment/tax laws? No, nothing happens to him/her. Tomorrow they will replace the illegals arrested today with some more illegals and just keep on making money and breaking laws.
 
Quirky said:
4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.
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Ive posted facts on here previously, which clearly stated that the worst immigration violations occcured under Bush the Elder, followed by Clinton and then Bush the Younger, but you keep telling yourself that the worst happened Biden if that helps you sleep better at night.
 
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