Immigration Games
The ICE raids are theater. If Trump and the republicans were serious about immigration they could make citizenship a requirement for welfare programs. They could put a clause in the budget that all federal funds will be withheld from states who give immigrants social services. They could revoke all H1-B visas 90% of the immigration issue would vanish. Trump and the Republicans have the house and the senate there's nothing stopping them. It's a 2 for one millions of immigrants go home and the budget gets slashed by 100's of billions of dollars.
Yup. Ryan. I think that ICE was also created with deliberately planted flaws (to eventually discredit it). As you point out, there are easier and more effective ways of achieving immigration compliance. Few, if any, are talking about the implausibility of all of this.
Ya under Obama and Biden everyone was afraid of a militarized federal police force, but I guess they're the good guys now
The Feds know where all the immigrants are, you have to give ID when you set up a cell phone, a bank account, ect. The government could freeze the bank accounts of every immigrant tomorrow if they wanted to. going door to door in combat gear is just agitprop.
He's right.
There's a famous Roman legend where during the Samnite Wars a Roman army was captured after the battle of Caudine Forks. The Samnite general, Gaius Pontius, sent a messenger to his father Herennius asking what he should do When the messenger returned he bore a message which stated that all the Romans should be killed. Wanting to be sure the general sent the messenger back to have his father confirm it. When the messenger returned again his message stated that all the romans should be set free. Confused Gaius Pontius summoned his father. when Herennius arrived he explained to his son that if he killed all the Romans Rome would be too weak to pose a threat, if he let all the Romans go Rome would become a friend. But Herennius warned his son that whatever he should choose he should not try to impose half measures as that would leave Rome humiliated and seeking revenge.
How Ghost Jobs and Linkedin are perpetuating the immigration scam.