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"Arrest/ticketing quotas have almost
always been found illegal by courts.
They used to be commonplace, but courts (at all levels) have generally ruled
that quotas pervert incentives so much they encourage open, deliberate abuse of
constitutional rights.
Enter the Trump administration, which only considers the Second Amendment to be
sacrosanct. Trump deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has spent the early
months of his return to office berating ICE for not being willing to raid more
Home Depots while pressuring immigration agencies to deliver 3,000
migration-related arrests
per day.
Obviously, this means DHS components no longer need to concern themselves with
finding dangerous criminals. Anyone looking Latino enough is grist for the
deportation mill, which leverages the inherent bigotry of the current
administration, along with tons of questionable law enforcement techniques, to
generate hundreds of arrests per day, with most of those slated for immediate
removal.
Even so, ICE has still failed to hit the 3,000/day quota. And that means every
day moves it further away from the Trump administration’s desire to remove
1,000,000 migrants
a year from the United States. (*Brown people
only.
White “refugees” are welcomed to exploit white flight conspiracy theories to
secure protective asylum.)
The administration is turtles all the way down, but with racist garbage instead
of turtles. Deputy Ghoul Miller thinks 3,000 racially motivated arrests is good
government business. Donald Trump – who’s always been a fan of unreasonable
numbers so long as they’re
big enough — thinks the Land of Free should just
push Lady Liberty’s corpse into the sea and send at least 1,000,000 people
seeking a better life to whatever hellhole is willing to turn deportees into
dead people. And that’s why this government is doing steady migration business
with places like El Salvador (overseen by another authoritarian “populist”) and
South Sudan (Vietnam circa 1967 but with less water and more random missile
fire)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
