As of now, 71.7 percent of ICE detainees have no criminal record.
Some have been hardworking members of their communities for decades.
How will ICE agents know whom to round up and detain? The crude reality is that they’ll focus on anyone looking Latino or with surnames ending in “z.”
There are 65.2 million Latinos in the United States, the vast majority of whom are citizens. Inevitably, some American citizens will be swept up, arrested, and detained.
This giant federal police effort will be supported by a supercharged surveillance system, also financed by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.
The Department of Homeland Security is joining with the Department of Government Efficiency to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.
The regime will not limit the purpose of its growing internal police apparatus to deporting undocumented people.
The coming expansion of Trump’s police state under the Big Ugly Bill — featuring total surveillance, 10,000 ICE agents, and a network of detention facilities — will mark an escalation of Trump’s authoritarianism — using the pretext of an immigrant crime wave that does not exist.
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