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Septua

(2,796 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 11:52 PM Tuesday

Deportation was never about just the criminal element.

Of course by now, that's pretty obvious but all the campaign rhetoric was about getting rid of the murderers, rapists, drug dealers, etc, etc, which was not an issue for anyone.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/06/09/trumps-immigration-crackdown-guru-stephen-miller-wants-even-more-arrests/

Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, referred to the demonstrations as an “insurrection,” and said they are “all the proof you need that mass migration unravels societies,” while highlighting footage of protesters waving Mexican flags in posts on X, painting a dark narrative that the U.S. is being taken over by undocumented migrants.


The arrests coincide with a push from Miller for ICE to dramatically increase arrests and use aggressive tactics, such as workplace raids like the one conducted at a Westlake Home Depot over the weekend that led to the protests in Los Angeles, according to multiple reports about Miller’s directives.


Miller recently set a new “minimum” arrest figure for ICE of 3,000 per day, double the quota set in January, and threatened to fire ICE field office leaders with the least amount of arrests, NBC News reported, citing unnamed sources who participated in a meeting with Miller last month.


In the meeting, Miller urged officials to broaden arrest targets to include noncriminal migrants, according to NBC, even as the Trump administration has defended its mass deportation push by claiming it’s targeting those accused of serious crimes or gang affiliation.
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Deportation was never about just the criminal element. (Original Post) Septua Tuesday OP
these J6 apologists have a lot of nerve talking about INSURRECTIONISTS Skittles Tuesday #1
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Pretty much this is inevitable. Klarkashton Wednesday #3

TearsOfDaClowned

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Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:13 AM
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I wonder though. I believe Miller has the animus but American business loves cheap illegal labor too much and trying to right a system where even liberals consign "the little brown ones" to be assigned to MOWING THE LAWNS & PICKING THE FRUIT! doesn't make it any easier to round 'em all up. I believe this is still shock & awe. Another Trump deal. Make moves toward mass deportation
...keep Homan & Miller on a leash. Threaten DEM govs with sanctuary cities. But PLEASE remember that commercial for DHS that Noem did a few weeks back. " If you are illegal you must SELF DEPORT or TURN YOURSELF IN & GET ON OUR ALIEN REGISTRY!".

There is the Trump scam right there. How does America handle the undocumented? BRACERO! And how do you make a MODERN BRACERO system work? Call Elon Musk and his STARLINK allowing coast to coast tracking of EVERYONE. Call Thiel, JD, ... after all if they can ONLY receive their reduced pay rate by reporting their income through a PAYPAL like system or some kind of cryptocurrency well the PayPal mafia can help. And who ties this all together... Larry Ellison and ORACLE developer of REAL ID... BRACEROS documented, ID'ed, TRACKED, PAID with a built in W-2. And who gets the contracts while maintaining a two tier payment system and cheap labor while collecting fees and rigging up the whole system? Big Balls & crew with all the payment info they've scooped up.

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