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[Maximus]

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[dabrockster]

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Best to check your sources or read the quote they gave you before posting your bullshit.. While I disagree with the methods and as I expressed prior, ICE is gestapos, but come on.

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[frank ryan]

It looks like this admin is set to revoke 200,000 visas. This focus has never solely been about illegal immigration.

[BlueK]

It looks like this admin is set to revoke 200,000 visas. This focus has never solely been about illegal immigration.

For extremists like Stephen Miller it is about pulling out as many foreign born people as possible, regardless of immigration status. It's easier to get the illegal ones but they're clearly showing they're just as happy to find any excuse they can to take away legal status.

[Northwestcoug]

You know with DHS officially claiming there's over 100 million illegal aliens (conventiently approximating the ratio of non-white people in the US), giving preferential immigration treatment to white South Africans to the exclusion of everyone else, and now posting video of Haitians in chains getting deported, I'm beginning to think the country is going through a little racism problem.

[dabrockster]

Marcus Coleman speaks about his daughter and the Delilah Law and Sanctuary Cities and his own wife who is an immigrant.

[BigPiney]

Marcus Coleman speaks about his daughter and the Delilah Law and Sanctuary Cities and his own wife who is an immigrant.

[Northwestcoug]

I didn’t know any of this story until I did a google search. It’s a sad story.

Apparently the driver was granted legal work status by the federal government, which was a condition for California or any other state to issue a CDL? If that’s the case, all the political hay DHS has tried to make with this tragedy is pretty suspect.

[LVAllen]

I didn’t know any of this story until I did a google search. It’s a sad story.

Apparently the driver was granted legal work status by the federal government, which was a condition for California or any other state to issue a CDL? If that’s the case, all the political hay DHS has tried to make with this tragedy is pretty suspect.

It's always been suspect. Partap Singh was granted federal authorization to work. I can't find additional information on his case (Partap / Pratap Singh is an exceptionally common name among Sikhs and there are multiple Habeas corpus grants under that name in California federal courts), but given his name, it's likely that he was seeking asylum and granted authorization to work while that played out.

[dabrockster]

A young man less than 60 miles took his life this past weekend. He was a recent graduate of Springfield, Ohio HS. Was a member of the JROTC and spent a year at Wright State University. transferred to Wittenberg University to play soccer. That sadly is now gone.

He threw himself in front of a semi on I70. Family says the humiliation of having to wear a ICE anklet caused him to be pushed over the edge to suicide.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/us/pierre-damas-bel-death-ankle-monitor

[frank ryan]

Just like with Elon Musk, I think the default should be not trusting what DHS says. They don't deserve the public's trust

[BlueK]

A young man less than 60 miles took his life this past weekend. He was a recent graduate of Springfield, Ohio HS. Was a member of the JROTC and spent a year at Wright State University. transferred to Wittenberg University to play soccer. That sadly is now gone.

He threw himself in front of a semi on I70. Family says the humiliation of having to wear a ICE anklet caused him to be pushed over the edge to suicide.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/us/pierre-damas-bel-death-ankle-monitor

He was Haitian and entered the country legally under TPS which this administration removed so these people who entered by the rules they were given could then be stripped of that and cruelly treated like garbage because those in charge now hate foreigners. Also, apparently the ankle monitor was a large bulky thing that prevented him from being able to play soccer and he couldn't fit his ROTC uniform pants over it. He was a good kid by all accounts, ready to contribute to society. He was planning on going to medical school. Treating people like this is just plain evil and immoral.

[BigPiney]

That is really sad.

[Northwestcoug]

If the budget gets tripled with a push to hire 10000 additional ICE officers, and you’re surprised that widespread abuses occur amid a surge of bad hires, well that’s on you:

In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a dire warning.

The Trump administration, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency — and its law enforcement operations — to “grave national security risks.”

Citing an “unprecedented lowering of standards,” the career ICE official said that “systemic breakdowns” had allowed applicants to receive job offers before they had passed basic fingerprint, identity or credit checks in a preliminary vetting process. Political appointees had unjustly skirted background investigations and received national security eligibility...

The preliminary vetting process, which took seven to 10 days, was upended last summer. The vetters were told to make determinations on recruits without having the full security form, fingerprints or any polygraph testing, according to the former unit chief and a former federal official familiar with the process who was granted anonymity to speak freely about it.

That meant new hires were heading to training without having their identities, criminal histories and other basic information checked and verified, the unit chief said.

The agency also sped up its training program, cutting it from roughly 10 weeks to six. This resulted in agents reporting to their full-time positions while their full background checks were pending...

… it was rare for students to fail out of the academy before the surge, but that about half of his students flunked out after the hiring push. This was after the academy made its tests open book and no longer failed students who made fatal errors during enforcement simulations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...tleblower.html

Again, historical conservatives should have seen this coming a mile away. The government is the problem, isn’t it? Why give it more money?

[frank ryan]

If the budget gets tripled with a push to hire 10000 additional ICE officers, and you’re surprised that widespread abuses occur amid a surge of bad hires, well that’s on you:



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...tleblower.html

Again, historical conservatives should have seen this coming a mile away. The government is the problem, isn’t it? Why give it more money?

Conservatives are now less fiscally conservative than Democrats.