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At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

Then, officers killed two US citizens during an ICE “blitz” on Minneapolis. After a public backlash, the Trump administration said it would try a new approach.

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

And it's clear that ICE is using both familiar and novel tactics to maximize arrests, from jail transfers to so-called 287(g) agreements that deputize local police forces to carry out immigration enforcement on ICE’s behalf.

As has long been the case, ICE works with jails and prisons to take custody of immigrants after they have been booked in. Since Trump took office last year, only 46% of detainees have been previously convicted of crimes.

The biggest category of arrests this summer were people on probation, picked up by immigration officers at their work, or who were arrested in communities across the country.

But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.

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The Democrats are still ruled by people who voted for the Iraq War, the Patriot Act (mass surveillance), and the DHS Act (creating ICE). Not a coincidence the same people get massive funding from AIPAC and support the Gaza genocide.

💯 %. 80% of Dems, and 100% of Republicans, in Congress take blood-money from blood-thirsty zionists. They can only be trusted to enable crimes of their puppet masters. Not one politicia will be held responsible for despicable crimes if AIPAC still owns most politicians.

You read this thread and your takeaway is to blame democrats. This MAGA like all MAGA never take responsibility for its evil

Someone should tell the dems that so they stop trying to meet in the MIDDLE WITH FASCISM When you have people like Talrico throwing transfolk under the bus. Like how in 2024 the dems pushed "strong borders" like a fucking REPUBLICAN

would say the more correct term is Einsatzgruppen. Still Nazi, but more accurate... Especially since during World War II you actually had a chance of nothing happening to you if you were visited by the Gestapo, but a visit from the SS Einsatzgruppen meant certain imprisonment and/or death.

So cops are racially profiling people and checking their papers, and if not in order holding them for ICE even if they were not suspected of any crimes.

Ask YOUR sheriff and police chief: have YOU signed a cruelty cooperation contract with ICE/DHS? TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK. REMIND THEM YOU pay their salaries. Promise the sheriff you’ll vote him OUT.

These local cops are systemically destroying their ability to enforce the law in their own communities. When people don't know if you're there to help or to hurt, they do not come forward and they do not cooperate. If you're a cop helping ICE, you're nothing but a pig rolling in shit.