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SpankMe

(3,599 posts)
4. My hypothesis...
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:46 AM
Aug 5

...is that this perennial number of "12M undocumented people" in the US was a fake number, and that the number never was that high. But, everyone glommed on to that number and assumed that there was a pool of "illegals" here so deep that you could go on for years arresting 3k people per day and never run out.

I believe that there are so few out-of-status and deportable people left that ICE just can't find 3k/day any longer. That's one reason why they're slowing from deporting real criminals and are instead deporting people who are easier to tag, like people with even the tiniest marks on their record - the Japanese Mormon green card holder who was deported for having a citation for fishing without a license 6 years prior, and people who had stray marks on their original permanent resident applications.

Even when we had 12M "illegals" here, I never believed illegal immigration was a real problem. I agree were were having problems with illegal border crossings until recently, and that was somewhat of a crisis. But, ICE and CBP were actively handling that. There was no need to go Nazi on the American people.

His truly are the numbers of the beast. Torchlight Aug 5 #1
Stephen Miller Would Do Well to MrWowWow Aug 5 #2
America's Gestapo. republianmushroom Aug 5 #3
My hypothesis... SpankMe Aug 5 #4
I think 1.2 mil might be accurate, but it's much easier to go after "Grandma next door" LeftInTX Aug 5 #17
Just send him away. To Musk, Bannon, Texas, anyplace where the likes of him are welcomed question everything Aug 5 #5
Can't wait until Chump fires him FakeNoose Aug 5 #13
If anything gerryatwork Aug 5 #14
We have enough problems in Texas! I think they should send him to Alligator Alcatraz... LeftInTX Aug 5 #18
Sorry. I was thinking ot the "redistricting" question everything Aug 5 #28
They have stripped all the low hanging fruit ToxMarz Aug 5 #6
That head should come with a warning EYESORE 9001 Aug 5 #7
Ha ha ha Nazi boy! electric_blue68 Aug 5 #8
Observed on one protest sign: Bayard Aug 5 #9
Love this! calimary Aug 5 #15
It had a picture of a bag of crushed ice on it Bayard Aug 5 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 5 #32
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If pants did ignite there would be the biggest human fire anyone has ever seen. Bigly. twodogsbarking Aug 5 #11
THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW. . . Jimvanhise Aug 5 #12
Miller is smart, not like everybody says... like dumb... he's smart and wants respect! (even if cucked) usonian Aug 5 #16
What will ICE do with all their newly appropriated billions? BaronChocula Aug 5 #19
Yes, it's ridiculous. Something like $45 billion Bernardo de La Paz Aug 5 #30
Who created these fake numbers... ECL213 Aug 5 #20
they may be out of visible Immigrants to arrest samsingh Aug 5 #21
People now know to avoid Home Depot parking lots and courthouses dalton99a Aug 5 #22
WTF are they going to do when ICE gets their 20x funding increase? Snarkoleptic Aug 5 #23
AWWW... GiqueCee Aug 5 #24
So if there isn't a "quota" then release all of the innocent people and those non-violent that haven't had chowder66 Aug 5 #25
And no one ever mentions... GiqueCee Aug 5 #26
MS-13 . MS-13 . MS-13 . MS-13 . IcyPeas Aug 5 #27
Where art thou my MS-13? LeftInTX Aug 5 #34
Maybe Stephen "Eichmann" Miller should fire everyone. CanonRay Aug 5 #29
Here I was thinking somebody named Plunge got arrested and was family breaker's pal... GreenWave Aug 5 #33
Aww.... OldBaldy1701E Aug 5 #35
Cruel Hand Puke: Failure to Incarcerate Blue Owl Aug 5 #36
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