With woefully little press, America’s Dark Overlord and his racist thugs have launched “enhanced targeted operations” in Chicago and elsewhere, resolutely sweeping up terrified, mostly law-abiding brown people, some Native, in the dubious name of “public safety and national security.” But because even vicious cartoon thug Tom Homan can’t keep up, now they have arrest quotas and groupies to boost their barbarous image. Meanwhile, egg prices are at record highs. Produce soon will be.
Where to begin. Billy Roach: Facts owe. The fact is, the moral, legal, vengeful, scapegoating debacle of “Operation Safeguard” is based on the utter fiction of a “migrant crime wave,” also maybe the hallucinatory fact it’s been unleashed by a mad dumb king who doesn’t know “political asylum” and “insane asylum” are different things. Really. The Orange Codger claims crime has “gone through the roof” and is “up like 40%,” reiterating a racist, years-long mantra that largely Hispanic countries are “not sending their best,” hence our resulting hordes of rapists, murderers, drug-dealers, and gangs “bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil.” Except NOT. Fact: Crime, including violent crime, is sharply down nationwide. Over 22 cities have seen record lows in homicide rates, with up to 40% declines including in New York, one of the safest big cities despite sensational claims otherwise, and DC, with the lowest rate in 30 years. The only crime that’s up, slightly, is shoplifting.
Of those perps, research has repeatedly found that undocumented immigrants are arrested for violent crimes at less than half the rate – from 47% to 33% – of native-born lawbreakers; for property crimes, the rate is a quarter, including in so-called sanctuary cities. Crimes are likewise down at the southern border, which has seen record numbers of immigrants. Even when arrested, the (rare) conviction rate for immigrants is almost half as low – 0.782% if illegal, 0.535 if legal – as for native-born criminals. Grimly, the racist trope fueling the latest revenge fantasy is almost a century old. In a 1931 report, the National Commission of Law and Enforcement wrote, “The theory that immigration is responsible for crime, that the most recent ‘wave of immigration,’ whatever the nationality, is less desirable than the old ones, that newcomers should be regarded (with) suspicion, (is) almost as old as the colonies planted by Englishmen on the New England coast.”
And so to the mob boss’ boast he’d promptly begin rounding up “criminal aliens, including murders (sic) and rapists” – on his first day; for good measure, he’ll also hunt his prey in formerly “sensitive” areas like churches and schools. Sunday’s launch of his “enhanced targeted operation” saw swarms of ICE agents, along with Homeland Security, FBI, DEA and other avengers, hit Chicago first; they also landed in LA, Phoenix, Denver, San Diego, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and other Texas cities. At the border, 1,500 active-duty Marine and Army personnel, reportedly pulled from the California fires, were offloading concertina wire to “aid detection,” part of the new regime’s promise to utilize “the whole government,” including the Justice Department, to make America white and fearful again by terrorizing over 11 million people, largely brown, most of whom do hard work we don’t want to and never imagined the land of the free would terrorize them out of existence.
To celebrate the first righteous raid, deportation big wigs turned out in Chicago to oversee the festivities: Deputy A.G. Emil Bove and Trump’s hand-picked Border Czar, chief goon and “racist piece of shit” Tom Homan, a former acting head of ICE who after being sued for his earlier, memorably admirable crying-children-in-cages policy deemed “torture” and “government-sanctioned child abuse,” said of the claims, “I don’t give a shit.” Sunday, Homan brought his thug mug to ABC’s This Week to brag and mumblecore to Martha Raddatz that his current abuse is “a force multiplier, and it’s sending a strong signal to the world – our border’s closed.” The whole thing was….something. A study in shameless sociopathy. A litany of self-serving lies. A portrait of hubris and racist megalomania at work on behalf of ruling tenet that, “Cruelty is the point.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-border-czar…
RADDATZ: So, is this what we will see every single day, ending millions and millions being deported?Yes. But you’re going to see the numbers steadily increase,as we open up the aperture. Right now, it’s concentrating on public safety threats, national security threats
If you’re in the country illegally, you’re on the table, because it’s not OK to, you know, violate the laws of this country. like you know, trump andf j6 and
“It’s not OK to violate the laws of this country,” hget hotel workers out, or people in – working on farms, that they’ll be so scared they just leave
If they have been here 30 years, if they have a job, if they’re working on a farm, they should be scared?
: If you’re in the country illegally, you’ve got a problem and we’re looking for you.
“So if you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem,” he said.
Were all of the people who were arrested on day one convicted criminals No.here are collateral arrests. Sanctuary cities. lock us out of the jails. So, instead of ICE being able to arrest the bad guy that – the criminal alien in the safety and security of a jail where the officer is safe, the alien is safe and the public is safe, sanctuary cities release them back in the community, which endangers the community, when we find him, he’s going to be with others, most likely. If they’re in the country illegally, they’re coming too
You talk about these numbers expanding, 500 the first day. What do you think you can get up to?HOMAN: As many as we can get, as many —
What criminals are hiding in schools? Middle schools, elementary schools, you’re going to go into those?
HOMAN: How many MS-13 members are the age 14-17? Many of them.
.So look, if it’s a national security threat, public safety threat.
These are well-trained officers with a lot of discretion, sensitive location, going to be supervisory view.
So it’s not like it’s an open,… open issue, but ICE officers should have discretion to decide if a national security threat or a public safety threats
RADDATZ: But someday you could go into those schools and grab people who are just in the country illegally?
HOMAN: On a case by case basis, depending who they are, what the circumstances are.
the number one issue that people voted on. mandate to give us money we need.How much? How much, how much — what price you put on national security?
s of gangs tied to South and Central America, such as MS-13, are between 14 and 17 years old.
HOMAN: What price you put on — what price you put on all these young ladies that have been raped and murdered and burned alive. What price do you put on that? What price you put on Laken Riley’s life, what price you put on national security?
a surge like this when national security threats enter the country. That’s when sex trafficking goes up.
That’s when, you know, that’s when the fentanyl comes in that kills a quarter million Americans. I don’t put a price on that.even tho fentanyl brought in by white guys
aren’t just “picking up anyone with a tan,” at least 15 Native Americans
rump administration is far from happy. even employed the help of a right-wing celebrity talking head to boost public morale: Dr. Phil McGraw.
The inhumane shipment of Colombian and Brazilian immigrants back to their home countries caused a massive reaction from Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Brazilian officials.Photos showed undocumented immigrants handcuffed and lined up as they were hurried on to military aircrafts where they were reportedly denied food and water.And what about those countries that won’t take them back?HOMAN: Oh, they’ll take them back.We got President Trump coming to power. President Trump puts America first….what is mission accomplished here?HOMAN: Taking as many public safety threats off the street as possible, watching illegal alien crime in the United States decrease, ending it.
And while Homan told McGraw that they aren’t just “picking up anyone with a tan,” at least 15 Native Americans across Arizona and New Mexico havestopped, questioned, or detained
According to the anonymous source, the White House has issued new daily quotas on ICE agents, telling the federal officers to ramp up their hundreds of daily arrests to at least 1,200 or 1,500.
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a weeklong frenzy of reported sightings, boasting on social media, x obviously, about their conquests of powerless brown peopleand gleefully posting its gruesome numbers : 956 arrests, 554 detainers lodged (?) ice single day stats
ItU.S. military aircraft carrying undocumented migrants out of the country for the first time. The White House releasingpictures of migrants in chains, boarding 160 people in total taken to Guatemala Friday. t
rump crowed: we’re getting them out
Others, however, said the administration was simply creating fear within the immigrant community, with the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration saying that “turning places of care, healing and solace into places of fear and uncertainty … will not make our communities safer.
thousands of migrants are now stuck in Mexico with no idea what comes next, as the administration halts all applications for asylum through the CBP One app. One asylum seeker telling us, I lost my hope.
Farm workers are so afraid of being deported they’re not showing up to work, no one to pick the crops, which creates a shortage of produce in the market, which impacts the supply chain, which drives prices up.
Making groceries MORE EXPENSIVE.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/27/2299536…
protests outside Hamline Elementary Schoolno abran a ice! – dont open for ice – in mexican neighborhoods
in chicago, thousands of residents had marched to protest coronotion, many carrying signs reading we’re dreamers ot criminals, undocumented hands feed you, no to deportations, trump is the criminal
little village south west side chicago
a day after four major Chicago-based immigrant rights groups filed a federal lawsuit raids violate human rights and are in retaliation against Chicago’s sanctuary city status. City Council voted down a push to change the city’s sanctuary city rules so Chicago police could cooperate with ICE earlier this month.
Immigration raids lead to individual and family trauma, economic devastation, educational system disruption and public health and safety crises,”
legal help: really a more more elevated level of anxiety
Illinois A.G, Kwame Raoul blasted effect on our economy and stability These are people who make contributions and pay taxes and are part of the fabric of our communit, esp true in an immigrant, largely mexican community of little village y
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-r…
fear, business down 60%
“Laura Gutierrez.owner of Nuevo León restaurant, says business is down 60%. We are not seeing people from our community. We are not seeing locals,” said
“It’s heartbreaking, because Little Village, we are one. We stand with them; we are nothing without them. Little Village is everybody who lives here,” Gutierrez said.
Las Comales, another restaurant along 26th Street, is seeing more drive-thru and deliveries
On Friday, Secret Service agents mistaken for ICE agents were at Hamline Elementary looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video on social media, officials originally reportedICE agents had visited the school and were turned away in accordance with the city’s sanctuary city status.
Later clarified“ misunderstanding, reflective of the fear and concerns in the community
Unconfirmed ICE sightings continue to circulate on social media, mostly in majority-Latino neighborhoods men and women in uniform didn’t sign up to separate families or run detention camps on US soil.https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-phil-joins-ice-te…
they even have voyeyrs and groupies! dr phil went along
Homan told Dr. Phil failed sanctuary city policies.
Dr. Phil embedded with a (ICE) team in Chicago
Phil McGraw, known as “Dr. Phil,” joined border czar Tom Homan and a team of agents on Sunday as they took various illegal immigrants into custody. This comes after Homan declared that Chicago would be “ground zero” for immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.
As part of his show on Merit TV, Dr. Phil filmed arrests—a convicted sex offender and internet predator from Thailand We got an illegal alien, convicted of sex crimes involving children. He’s walking the streets of Chicago,”
won’t be able to remove every undocumented immigrant in the U.S., and that his “success is going to be based on what Congress gives us.””We can do what we can with the money we have. But with more money we have, the more we can accomplish.”
“What price [do] you put on national security?” he added. “When you … don’t secure that border, that’s when national security threats enter the country. That’s when sex trafficking goes up. That’s when, you know, that’s when the fentanyl comes in.”
Why the fuck is a single Senate Democrat playing “everything is normal” by voting to confirm the Cabinet picks You have ALL spent the last how many years calling him Hitler and now you’re like, ‘I’m a yes on Goebbels”
Do. Not. Comply.
keep the immigrants deport the insurrectionists
nancy mace, can they be livestreamed somewhere, asking for a friend
i would pay to watch deportations live on tv
at no point in history were the people who justified targeting children the good guys
This post was originally published on Common Dreams.