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.
It seems like this ICE farce is trying to create another George Floyd situation.
Ya they've already shot two people. Those shootings were bad shoots, but it's pretty hard to feel sorry for the people that got shot, they were definitely asking for it. There's going to be a really bad outcome sooner or later if things keep up. That's why if you're going to go into the hornets nest you cant just send in a few goons squads, you have to go in hard, or not at all.
Also if you're an illegal immigrant how stupid do you have to be to still be in Minnesota? is ICE even catching anyone at this point?
this could also be one of those staged defeats Republicans are famous for: "oh gee willikers we sure tried to deport the illegals but it was too hard, made us become the bad guys, better let all the good migrants stay"
Quote from Ryan Augustine on January 27, 2026, 22:32this could also be one of those staged defeats Republicans are famous for: "oh gee willikers we sure tried to deport the illegals but it was too hard, made us become the bad guys, better let all the good migrants stay"
Exactly. Staged defeats, just like Trump’s wall.
Anarcho-tyranny, then, is not just a deformation of the traditional system of government nor a symptom of “decadence.” The state today is perfectly capable of enforcing laws against illegal immigration and catching and deporting the illegals who are already here. It is also entirely capable of catching and imprisoning or executing the killers, rapists, and robbers who continue to haunt our streets and neighborhoods, just as it is entirely capable of catching speeders and red-light runners. The conventional conservative explanation of such “failures” on the part of the state, as the result of “weakness of will” or something, does not wash. The state and those who control it clearly have the will to enforce those laws they wish to enforce. The state does not “fail” to enforce the rest; it has no intention of enforcing them nor any desire to do so.
Anarcho-tyranny is entirely deliberate, a calculated transformation of the function of the state from one committed to protecting the law-abiding citizenry to a state that treats the law-abiding citizen as, at best, a social pathology and, at worst, an enemy. Having captured the state apparatus, the anarcho-tyrants are the real hegemonic class in contemporary society, and their function is to formulate and construct the new “culture” of the new order they envision, a culture that rejects as repressive and pathological the traditional culture and civilization.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/perspective/synthesizing-tyranny/