This conflict, on both sides, is entirely manufactured. There is no possible way this ICE circus could deport tens of millions of people. In fact, the government claims they are only attempting to deport a few hundred thousand. You will not notice that. (After you’ve consented to a full deployment of masked federal cops on your streets, four years later, there might be 48.5 million illegal immigrants instead of 49.1 million. But of course their children will vastly make up for the difference, as will the tens of millions of Indians that will be brought in during that period.)
Meanwhile, the protesters against ICE are marketing a fantasy where they are protecting Anne Frank. It is all total nonsense.
If we were living in reality, instead of this demented Teletubby hyperreality, people would demand the government use existing laws and existing law enforcement to calmly do pre-dawn raids on the people who are housing and employing the illegal immigrants. In a matter of months, none of these Anne Franks would have anywhere to live or work, and they would peacefully take their $3,500 checks and plane tickets home. By this time next year, 85% of illegal immigrants would have left. That’s the reality situation.
Donald Trump has no interest in the mass removal of illegal immigrants, ostensibly due to economic reasons, and so instead of punishing those housing and employing the immigrants, he is putting on this stupid circus of cruelty and death for the proles. It’s very similar to the totally incompetent Nero giving people bread and letting them watch people kill each other at the circus. In order for the circus to work, a bunch of morons have to come do violence against the fake immigration people. The violence of the “protesters,” who are actually using guerrilla warfare tactics, then justifies the violence of the state. The boomers and their allies cheer on the total militarization of domestic policing without thinking even days, let alone months or years, in advance.
If we can grasp that those being killed are being killed because they are enemies of the state, then the logical thing for us to ask ourselves is this: is there any chance that we or anyone we care about could ever under any circumstances be considered an enemy of the state? That question should not be very difficult to answer.
Let’s look.
- People should not be talking about ICE as if it is a serious thing. The immigrants could be self-deported, very quickly, by simply giving draconian prison sentences to the people who house and employ them. Trump is not doing that because he doesn’t actually want to remove immigrants, he just wants to look like he’s trying to do that. ICE is a circus show. It is not a real attempt to remove immigrants. You can’t remove tens of millions of people by grabbing them one at a time. Talking about this thing at all as if it is serious deeply confuses the issue, and gives room for the neo-boomer commentators to push this fed line about “immigration enforcement” as if it makes sense. (If Tucker Carlson was constantly pointing out that arresting housers and employers would solve the issue, no ICE supporter would be able to respond to that, because there is no response.)
- In the reality situation, the first purpose of ICE is to normalize militarization of the police. This mass militarized federal police force is going to be used for many purposes not related to immigration enforcement. Right now, at least in Minnesota, the main purpose of ICE is to fight anti-ICE protesters. Just imagine if there were big protests against Trump and then imagine him not sending in ICE. Of course he would use them. They are a private thug group that reports to the president that will be used for any purpose the president wants. They can arrest without warrants, they can disappear people.
- This whole ICE “cruelty theater” is going to ensure no one supports immigration enforcement. Republicans are already dropping support for immigration enforcement because this whole shitshow is so disgusting. No one expected the immigration enforcement they voted for to be a bunch of untrained lunatics in masks running around attacking people on the streets, accountable to no one. It would have been very, very easy, after the Biden Administration, to frame mass immigration as an elitist agenda against the American worker. Firstly, that’s what it is. Secondly, if you would have arrested a few “fat cats” who use illegal immigrant labor, they would have been very unsympathetic (and probably Jewish, if that matters) individuals who no one would be able to defend. It needs to be pointed out that the reason these people are not being arrested is that Trump is not against the people who are making all of this money by driving down American wages with illegal immigrant labor. He is purposefully trying to create a shitshow, while the feds organize their own opposition to use guerrilla warfare tactics against them and justify establishing a police state.