An army of masked ICE agents snatching people when they show up to work, to church[2], to their child’s day care[3], to immigration court[4]. A return of family separations[5]. That deportation flight ASMR video the White House posted on X[6]. Kristi Noem posing[7] in front of tattooed detainees at El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
When it comes to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology. The GOP-controlled Congress poured tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s coffers and set off a feeding frenzy: States are lining up[8] behind Florida to run their own detention centers, while administration-friendly contractors are busily pitching iris-scanning apps, logistics expertise, fleets of deportation-ready aircraft—sometimes without competing bids.
The new immigration dragnet is everywhere, rife with conflicts, and it’s only just begun.
References
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- ^ church (democracyforward.org)
- ^ child’s day care (www.theguardian.com)
- ^ immigration court (www.motherjones.com)
- ^ family separations (www.nytimes.com)
- ^ posted on X (x.com)
- ^ posing (www.instagram.com)
- ^ lining up (www.politico.com)