Subject: Re: Yet more meltdowns
Again, though, not really relevant unless they actually do limit that first wave to going after only those people. There's been no official policy drafted yet, of course; but it's not like Trump or Miller have come out and said that the policy you're describing is the one they're going to pursue.

They've said public safety is job 1. Who else would they deport first? Why would they hand the democrats a bunch of images of kitted-up ICE dudes ripping families apart? What purpose does that serve?

And I think you're overstating how many people are actually, practically deportable in this first wave. The first two categories (active arrest warrants and national security threats) are and have been priorities for deportation for a long time. The reason they haven't been deported is because ICE can't put their hands on them.

Actually, Joe Biden doesn't WANT to deport them. He never did.
If preventing terrorists from coming in or deporting them was a Biden thing, then he was amazingly inept at it. So the more logical explanation is that he didn't really care.

You know how I know all that? Because Biden basically halted workplace enforcement. If you have no worries that Uncle Sam is going to check your taxpayer ID at your job then you have every incentive to stay.

The biggest group are the ones that already have removal orders. But again, there's a reason why those folks haven't actually been removed.

I'm aware. The biggest dumb thing Biden did was allow places like Venezuela to empty their jails and send them here. You don't think all those gangs operating all over the place happened organically, did you? The Venezuelan government probably laughed their rear ends off at qué estúpidos son los yanquis.

But it's all good. Bundle them up and fly them back. Yes, yes, yes you're going to tell me that there's a statute that says You Can't Do That On Television.

Pretty quickly, you're going to find yourself in a position where you're prioritizing for removal a swath of the population that's more sympathetic than the "criminals" and "national security threats," but just folks that have been here without incident for quite some time.

These arguments always end up in the place: Oh, well. There's nothing to be done, so let's throw up our hands and accept the present situation. Or just offer them all citizenship and be done with it.