White House border czar Tom Homan is promising to “flood” cities run by Democrats with immigration agents, as the Trump administration ramps up border enforcement.
Congress earlier this month gave the Trump administration more than $170 billion over the next four years to dramatically scale up enforcement, detention and deportation, and Homan said Americans living in so-called “sanctuary cities” can expect to see far more agents on the street soon.
The White House has repeatedly singled out cities from Los Angeles to Denver to Boston for their refusal to assist ICE agents making detentions, and Homan has threatened to arrest elected officials who stymie the president.
Migrant-rights groups warn increased enforcement raises the risk of more civil rights violations and violent confrontations, like the chaotic protests that broke out in Los Angeles last month following Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at a Home Depot, among other locations.
Trump officials have long complained that many cities run by Democrats refuse to honor requests to detain people on behalf of ICE in local jails, and Homan said doing so makes it harder for ICE to arrest “bad guys” in the safety of a detention center. He said making street arrests is more dangerous for everyone, requiring more personnel to operate safely.
The increased funding for one of Trump’s signature policies comes as the American public appears to be growing increasingly concerned about the tactics being deployed. A July 20 poll by CBS/YouGov found that 56% of Americans disapproved of the president’s immigration measures, while 44% approved, a 10-point drop from February.
Couldn’t dem cities just start making hearings with immigrants completely online?
They are targeting people who are in jail before trial after being arrested for things not related to immigration.
Like if someone was in jail for public intoxication and in the process of getting booked and awaiting trial, they want sheriffs to start just handing people over to them to save them the time/effort of actually detaining the person after they’re released (or eventually having to get a warrant to take them from the sheriff’s custody).
I’d say they need a warrant to arrest people in my community if I was the sheriff
me in a red state suddenly feeling “passed over”
this is an odd sensation.
What state?
NC.
More for family and connections than because I like it here, our DMVs are purposefully made horrible as a political bargaining chip, our work culture sucks, our claim to fame is giving our entire hemisphere lung cancer, and everyone is racist… but the BBQ is great.
Yup red state here, very little activity, very little.
Sure would be a good time for the *checks notes* . . . Democrats to make as loud a fuss as humanly possible, wouldn’t it.
Based on past performance, I think we can all reasonably expect they will step up to the plate with a meekly worded statement expressing “concern”.
Also - vote your people in. Work to change this by doing something/anything. That is the real revolution.
I do have to give some credit to the dem governors and mayors of the sanctuary jurisdictions that are being targeted and have formed a coalition and are actively Trump in federal court to block him from cutting their funding.
Meanwhile my blue city in a red state with a federal consent decree preventing police from dealing with immigration, is being used like a guinea pig to test out different strategies for Republicans before they get used on a bigger scale.
Our mayor is in the last few months of her final term, and I’m pretty convinced she sold out our city in a deal to save herself from federal charges. She put up no resistance despite the concerns of civil rights advocates when our insane governor establish a permanent police force in the city (which can’t be regulated by any city ordinance bc they’re under state jurisdiction), and filed a motion to speed up the removal of a consent decree, which is the only thing standing between the governor forcing all city police and law enforcement agents to comply with ICE instead of as he and Trump put it, refusing to take off the federal handcuffs that prevent them from carrying out federal immigration orders.
As of August 1st a new state law goes into effect which makes it a felony punishable with up to 10 years in jail for law enforcement or any state official to hinder, delay, or interfere with federal immigration orders.
Our “progressive sheriff,” who the governor believes was installed by George Soros, has said she plans to stick by the ruling of the consent decree, and a criminal court judge has now found an excuse to hold her in contempt of court on a completely unrelated bullshit matter, with a trial date of August 4th, 3 days after it becomes possible to throw her in prison for 10 years for not blindly following orders.
So, while I’m fine with shitting on Democrats like chuck Schumer for doing nothing or refusing to support Mamdani, I do feel like it’s important to acknowledge the Dems who are at least trying to fight back or at least stand their ground. Some of them have formed coalitions, and some seem to be left to fend for themselves while Dems like my mayor not only refuse to join in something like protective a coalition, but actually appear to be are actively helping the administration destroy any shields we have left protecting democracy in the United States
I think they need to start thinking in terms of power politics rather than lawsuits. The Supreme Court isn’t going to save them. Start instituting local laws and regulations that make the ICE bullshit difficult. Install allies in the local and state police forces so you can believe your laws will be followed by them.
Someone with power is going to have to say ‘no’ and back it up, not call a point of order and ask the court to scold them officially.
Also - vote your people in
Even this isn’t enough. I live in a solid blue town if a deep blue state. My elected officials have been great at speaking up and do what they can.
But what can they do.? It’s not nothing, but …
- Sure they speak up but are ignored.
- Sure they vote against, but are outvoted.
- Sure they increased the DAs budget and have been filing suits left and right, but that doesn’t stop illegal and unconstitutional actions.
- Sure they passed sanctuary laws for medical personnel but those doctors and nurses still can’t travel to certain states
- Sure they passed sanctuary laws where police aren’t allowed to work on immigration-only cases, but that hasn’t stopped people from being kidnapped with no due process
Where was I going? Oh yeah, my elected city councillor was roughed up and threatened with jail time for videoing a kidnapping. What do you do? We’re far beyond the need for just electing good people
Those good people theoretically have control of their own local security forces and support from their local community. They need to be willing to start using them to contain unlawful actions by the feds. Require license plates on all vehicles, ban masks during arrests, create local regulations about inspections of all buildings housing detainees. Federal agents can be arrested, and even if they’re released later, that’s still disrupting the free for all they have now.
And even a little support from local authorities can multiply the abilities of individual citizens to resist. If police will protect protesters rather than run crowd control against them, or the city drops some concrete road barriers at a detention facility out of code, then the feds don’t have the equipment and manpower to deal with a crowd.
They’re all stuck playing by the old systems while the administration doesn’t give a fuck.
How is this anything else other than a declaration of civil war?
We’re already there. It already started.
Pakled Homan
Despite common belief…we have guns.
Since this all started we went from owning one firearm to four, I got my permit to carry and regular do so.
Similar! I went from owning zero to three and have a class scheduled to get my carry permit.
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If anyone reading this didn’t vote, you’re complicit. Thanks.
Nooooooo Harris wanted teh genoSiiiiidEs!! We had to not prevent trump to teach them a lesson!
Also: O shit this fucked up
I dream about going back in time and correcting our mistakes permanently
Heard you got pretty close but only killed a firefighter. Welp get in the time machine, destinys calling
Rolling out the mulitibillion SS paramilitary security apparatus, which conveniently can be used for anything the dictator orders them to, such as suppressing political opponents, controlling elections, generate general fear etc. etc.
Did they not want to use the word “blitz”?
The man is already a Czar. Doing a “blitz” would be just one foreign thing too far.
well this will be fun. they will straight up be attacked in my city.
I’ll bet they won’t. What city
You’re wrong. Many cities have groups with fast-reaction plans, and arrive on the scene of an ICE raid within minutes, and start causing trouble. It’s only going to get a LOT worse.
Next summer, just before the Midterms, will be chaos.
I’ll take that bet if you wanna make it.
You’ve already lost. ICE is already facing conflict everywhere they are operating. As time goes on, and they start operating in hostile cities and states where NOBODY welcomes them, it will only get worse.
“Conflict” ha ha ha, you sweet summer child. The only conflict worth anything is a body on the floor.
You’re right, they will be shot at
portland. the cops had to organize an extrajudicial execution squad for one leftist protestor who killed a Trumper.
Yeah I’m in Portland too. Ain’t gonna be shit going down. BLM won’t happen again. We are pussies.
we’ll see. i live near the ICE office and they are vandalzing the shit out of that office. love to see it.
Is this getting news coverage?
Oh are they? Well good. Hopefully they follow them home and vandalize those
States are not obliged to assist in federal enforcement activities.
They are trying to force local jails to start detaining people for ice, and citing the off duty customs agent that was shot in an attempted robbery Saturday night as proof that ICE agents are facing violence when trying to obtain suspects that have already been caught and rely bc of sanctuary policies.
There is no indication the off duty agent was targeted. It seems like a random crime, but they are taking the ball and running with it.
Imagine that, being a raging asshole toward your fellow citizens makes you a target by those same citizens. Maybe try not being a dick, and nobody will threaten you.
Yeah, the shit they’re doing is making them targets, whether that one guy was or not. Doesn’t change a thing, except maybe “Why should state and local police put themselves in more danger because of what federal fascists do?”
The border Czar’s threat is almost identical to state laws that are being created in different red states and set to go into effect soon.
As of August 1st in Louisiana, a state law targets New Orleans sanctuary policy and makes it a felony punishable up to 10 years in prison for any state official to “hinder” federal immigration orders
What are the odds this guy pulls essentially the same language out of his ass to threaten elected officials who “stymie” federal immigration orders?
Its weird when the punishment for an elected official following the law is harsher than the illegal employers
This was clearly where it’s going. I guess, if it’s on, it’s on. Probably better if it happens sooner before ICE staffs up, figures out what the fuck it’s doing when they’re snatching people other than asthmatic students, and starts getting accustomed to real resistance.
Calling it now. ICE is gonna have a massive presence at voting locations next year. Wearing blue? Must be an immigrant
Yep, that’s the whole point of getting them deployed to democratic strongholds.
follow russias method, they have fsb/security forces at polling places to ensure the “correct candidate” at the elections.
Good. Buy some long guns.
Get a couple of pistols, too, just in case you find yourself in a closed quarters confrontation.
Get one of each. Then spend the rest of your budget on ammo and training.
And first aid kits
You don’t even have to be wearing anything colorful. They will use their tried and true method, racial profiling.
Yeah, it’s hard to change the color of your skin.
They will just be informed of who voted for who and detain you after.
This guy looks like his dick is real red.
Arest this S&W 500
