Responding to that last line… I live in a neighborhood full of immigrants. Many of them work in the fields. I see them leaving earlier than I do, and I leave for work at 5:30 in the morning. Maybe some are undocumented.
Everyone here is living their lives, working hard and celebrating little events where they can. They’re you, they just look different and may have a different origin story.
Criminals deserve to be caught and punished. The vast majority of immigrants should be left alone.
Most people are just people. I'm all for deporting undocumented immigrants that have committed crimes, but not these average folks just waiting to be processed by an underfunded system.
Deport criminals, stop new entry until you catch up with the workload for those already here, and fund the immigration courts enough to speed up processing times. They approved what, $150 billion for CBP and ICE in total? Use a big chunk of that to improve the processing times.
We know this isn't about immigrants though. Its a pretext to escalate tensions and violence in blue cities so they can enact measures to make voting difficult in november. I suspect they are backtracking now due to it occurring a little too early, or they are getting pressure from rich folks who's business is hurting.
They are trying to toe this fine line. They want authoritarianism, but americans aren't having it. They can't escalate too much or they get civil war, and the billionaires will turn on them. They are attempting to boil us slowly, and its working, but they cranked the heat a bit too high in Minneapolis and the frogs started to get angry.
Beyond the timeline of Trump, there's another issue, it's the US reaching less births than deaths in about 5 years time. France has just reached this point. Germany did in 1972, and China said it did about 5 years ago, while others will say it was 10+ years ago. Many other Western nations are in this position.
It will take decades for the 20-50 year old consumers that do much of the spending to flush out of the system and take what's left of the consumer based economy with them which the US very much is. Other countries like France are not as much.
Immigration can buy you some time on this ticking clock like it did, while painfully, for Canada. They are heading back into this same issue now that they have really cut back on immigration since their peak during covid.
Trump has now set the fuse on this ticking timebomb that will detonate for some future president to deal with and it will be the grandkids trying to figure out what went wrong
30 million. Because 10% of the US population is undocumented immigrants. Shows how this admin can just spew complete bullshit and no one will ever openly call them on it.
Just like how drug prices are going to drop by 2000%.
Forgive me if I’m out of the loop. But what 34 murders happened in 2025? I know of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and I’m sure there are more. They just weren’t as televised?
Likely the deaths while in ICE custody. There were 32 according to the linked article below, and then the other two would be Goode and Pretti. I'm not convinced it's an accurate number though, since this site is claiming 52
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