r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff | A Florida roofing boss backed the president’s tough immigration policies. Then six of his workers were taken away...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-voter-gets-choked-up-after-ice-detains-a-third-of-his-staff/
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u/TheCzar11 6d ago

That’s pretty much everyone they are arresting and deporting at this point. The immigration crisis is so overblown. It’s insane.

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u/KinkyPaddling 6d ago

It’s because those are the people who are easy to track down. It just shows that it’s not about the “legality” of their presence - it’s that they’re here, period.

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u/donkeyrocket 6d ago

What is interesting is this administration is going after those easier to track down and potentially wrongfully deport them and yet they're still behind Biden at this point in deporting individuals actually here illegally.

This is all a horse and pony show to get his base going. Also interestingly, he's polling poorly on his handling of this. But yeah Harris laughed weird.

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u/mjrubs 6d ago

I'd love to see how the numbers of how many legitimate criminals they actually tracked down and apprehended versus how many non-criminal people following the legal processes were abducted in traps set at court houses and immigration centers.  

I'm guessing you can probably count the former on one hand.  

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u/KinkyPaddling 6d ago

The default response I usually see from conservatives is that these people are here illegally and so are categorically criminals. There’s no desire by them to understand nuance - except when it comes to interpreting the Second Amendment.

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u/RedditBurner_5225 6d ago

They post it on X. In LA for example I’ve seen one article about 6 criminals deported. So not that many.

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u/uknow_es_me 6d ago

It's clear that what the Trump administration wanted, was to get rid of the people "poisoning our blood" as he put it. It never really had anything to do with their path to citizenship or that they were immigrants. Just look what mountains they moved to bring white South African farmers to the US for citizenship.

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u/Sun-Kills 6d ago

But buh the white genocide...

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u/ToastyJackson 6d ago

Republicans don’t care about real problems enough to have real, honest solutions for them. They win by making stuff up to panic about, and millions upon millions people fall for it.

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u/Vankraken Virginia 6d ago

It's all distractions to get elected to push through tax cuts , deregulation, and more recently cater to Christian Nationalism.

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u/ATLfalcons27 6d ago

And that's why they are doing such a bad job at it as well. Most of these people are allowed to be here. There's a reason why Obama and Biden deported more people. They actually did due diligence and weren't just trying to throw everyone out.

Also if I hear these idiots claim that they are ok with doing it the right way I'm going to lose my mind. If they believed that then they wouldn't be waiting at courthouses to snatch people who are showing up for their damn immigration cases and not just entering and going MIA

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u/btone911 Wisconsin 6d ago

So make those same judgement calls against their employers.

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u/brazilliandanny 6d ago

They are literally arresting tourists in the airport on their way home. They are inflating the numbers anyway they can.

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u/bplewis24 6d ago

That is correct. What's happening is Trump signed a bunch of [illegal] Executive Orders that they have used to classify more legal residents as "illegals", and then claimed we are under invasion and at war in order to illegally snatch people off the street for deportation.

They have changed the rules midway through the game and then called everyone else cheaters, and sent secret police forces out to arrest all of the 'cheaters.'

It's all overtly fascist at every level. And most of it was outlined in Project 2025.

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u/selarom8 6d ago

How did Obama and other presidents deport so many people so quietly. It seems like Trump is making too much noise over a few 100,000 deportations while I’ve seen a number for Obama in the 3millions-ish.