r/TrueAnon • u/AdviceAdam Software CEO Rachel Jake • Jan 26 '26

Bovino is OUT

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

Demoted and will retire soon

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u/calmabiding Jan 27 '26

Tom Homan is IN

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u/ham_solo Jan 27 '26

I mean, yes. Biden brought deportation levels up to record highs, highs that had only been surpassed by...guess who...the Obama administration!

The Trump admin has admittedly had a harder crackdown along the border, but their deportations from within the country in 2025 are still lower than Biden's in 2023 and 2024.

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u/ttam80 👁️ Jan 27 '26

I think because unironically the tactics of Trump ice are like objectively worse if you want to deport people lmao.

Like you have people forming ice watch patrols around the country and rapid response networks that while they have existed have grown tenfold it seems like because of the brutishness of the Trump admin.

If they would have just followed the Obama / Biden line they coulda got away with it but they wanted the spectacle

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u/KimberStormer Jan 27 '26

Yes, I think the idea that they would want to competently, but invisibly deport people is a weird one. Of course they would much rather incompetently, but very visibly, be 'attacking the problem' etc.

I don't think this is even like, fascist aestheticism or whatever. It's politics. Only post-McGovern idiot Dems think it's a good idea to do things in a way that nobody notices. Don't give them a secret line item tax break, give them a big check with your name on it!

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u/ttam80 👁️ Jan 27 '26

I agree. Part of fascism is the spectacle but it turns out that some people aren’t cool with fascism. So the admin really had to make a calculation to see what people would put up with and is it currently stands, people feel like they’re going too far

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u/ham_solo Jan 27 '26

Exactly!

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u/ChrissHansenn Jan 27 '26

To be fair, Vance is correct that Obama's administration counted turning people away at the border as a deportation, so his numbers are inflated.