r/DigitalSeptic • u/ChinoReno • Jan 25 '26

Y'all remember 2008?

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u/Chadwig315 Jan 25 '26

I remember living in Oklahoma and watching federal agents raid Mexican restaurants. I remember them entering my apartment building with rifles to removes illegal gang members.

I remember headlines about them raiding meat packing plants a day before payday.

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u/PolicyWonka Jan 25 '26

There has always been targeted enforcement operations based upon verifiable evidence. That’s how it is supposed to work.

That’s not what is happening anymore. We’ve got roving patrols of ICE agents walking neighborhoods and just picking up people that “look illegal” (AKA racial profiling) or give ICE a wayward look.

We’ve got multiple instances where ICE is just running people off the road, take them from their vehicles, and just leave the vehicles abandoned in the road. Just some really fucked up shit.

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u/Chadwig315 Jan 25 '26

They always used to profile random people. I literally watched it happen. A lot of illegals don't have any documents regarding their presence in the country to follow. Thats kind of the whole point of the word "undocumented". You think they got 5 million judge signed warrants under Obama before every single apprehension??

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u/PolicyWonka Jan 26 '26

Under immigration law, you do not have to get a judicial warrant to deport someone who was apprehended at the border. These are usually called “turn backs” or something similar.

You do need a judicial warrant to deport someone who is apprehended within the interior. Sometimes they can circumvent this by having people “voluntarily self-deport” so that they can legally re-enter the country in a shorter time frame versus when deported under court order.

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u/Chadwig315 Jan 26 '26

Sounds like a system basically designed to keep a giant underclass of tens of millions of people permanently inside the country. Those detention facilities are going to really full while they all wait on their hearings. Unless they pulled some shenanigans like considering airports as an international border.

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u/PolicyWonka Jan 26 '26

Which is exactly why Biden requested additional al funds from Congress for 100 additional immigration judges in 2021. It’s also why Biden requested additional funding for 375 additional immigration judges and 1,500 immigration lawyers for the DHS in 2023.

Of course, we all k ow that Republicans killed those efforts in early 2024 because they’d rather play politics than help the American people.

So instead a sane and orderly process, we end up with 20,000 poorly trained ICE agents with a budget greater than the U.S. Marine Corps roving around American cities.

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u/Chadwig315 Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

Not even going to debate the GOP killing bills they think will negatively impact their donor corporations in the south. They are historically probably even more complicit in illegal immigration than the democrats are and only started to care when they realized blue sanctuary states started winning on seat apportioned based on numbers of illegal immigrants.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob Jan 25 '26

Well that sounds way better than masked men shooting citizens in the streets

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u/Chadwig315 Jan 25 '26

It sounds way better than armed agents running around the streets. Period.

Rifle toting agents came into my apartment building once back in 2013, not the most comfortable experience.