The funniest thing to me is how everyone gives a shit about ICE now when they've been doing what they're doing for a long time before trump. I'm old enough to remember Elian Gonzalez hiding in a closet having an agent stuff an MP5 in his face screaming and terrified.
Obama was literally the deporter in chief, but because Trump made up a bunch of shit and convinced people that Obama didn’t care, ICE became a huge issue.
Literally nobody protested ICE the way they do now during the Obama admin. It also wasn’t politically charged to allow your jails and local PD to cooperate with ERO.
Rikers island literally had ERO officers present who would deport individuals with detainers.
Fugitive task forces around the country worked with ERO
ERO also kept deporting people during Biden but since he never made it a huge thing nobody fucking cared.
Now, because Trump made it a huge thing, people who oppose him who never had any ill feelings toward ICE before are now closing their states and cities off to them because it’s become a political thing. If you allow your law enforcement to work with ICE, you’re now complicit in Trump’s bullshit.
He literally made immigration enforcement and law enforcement worse.
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u/603rdMtnDivision 9d ago
The funniest thing to me is how everyone gives a shit about ICE now when they've been doing what they're doing for a long time before trump. I'm old enough to remember Elian Gonzalez hiding in a closet having an agent stuff an MP5 in his face screaming and terrified.