Trump's Mass Deportation Plans

[KaraBulut]

It's kind of odd that this hasn't been covered more in the news. Friends in Chicago are saying that this is big on their local media but isn't getting sufficient coverage on national news.

ICE sent 300 agents. 300 government agents in military gear! They went door-to-door in an apartment building and pulled men, women and children out of their apartments and demanded to know their names, dates of birth and where they were born. Many were American citizens in the privacy of their homes. Several were in their underwear or naked. Flash-bang grenades were used... like this was a raid on terrorists in Afghanistan and not Americans in the privacy of their own homes in Chicago.

It's provoked protests in Chicago. Something about crying children in zip tie handcuffs seems to have outraged the locals.

Remember the nighttime raid on a Chicago apartment complex that forced American citizens out of their apartment? The one that had women and children standing outside in the middle of the night while helicopters and 300 government agencies conducted an "immigration raid".

Millions of dollars in taxpayer money spent.

No charges. None. Nada.

Money wasted on ICE Barbie's social media reality show.

Dramatic Chicago ICE raid touted as anti-terror win results in no criminal charges

A new investigation by ProPublica found that immigration raids hailed by the Trump administration as a major strike against terrorism did not live up to those claims. Dozens of Venezuelan migrants were detained in a September raid, with officials alleging they are members of the dangerous Tren...

www.pbs.org

Dramatic Chicago ICE raid touted as anti-terror win results in no criminal charges
Nov 14, 2025 6:45 PM EST

A new investigation by ProPublica found that immigration raids hailed by the Trump administration as a major strike against terrorism did not live up to those claims. Dozens of Venezuelan migrants were detained in a September raid, with officials alleging they are members of the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang. Ali Rogin discussed more with Melissa Sanchez of ProPublica...

Amna, the raid on September 30 is etched into the minds of some residents after they watched hundreds of federal agents rappel from Black Hawk helicopters, use drones and flashbang grenades to storm an apartment building in the city's South Shore neighborhood.

Dozens of Venezuelan migrants who were found to be undocumented were detained, with officials alleging they are members of a dangerous gang called Tren de Aragua, which has been designated as a terrorist group.

But the investigation by ProPublica paints a different picture. It found that many of those arrested had no criminal records and the government has provided no evidence tying them to terrorism...

We were able to identify 21 of the 37 immigrants. And we were — and I spoke with 12 of them. And we looked up all their criminal records. Very few of them had any. And the records that we did find showed zero mentions of gang membership.

 

[rareboy]

Charlotte is likely cheering as Bonvino and his gestapo thugs scuttles away from their city.

He probably isn't finding the opportunities for grandstanding drama like he can choreograph in the big cities.

And of course, we all know by now that ICE arrests a lot of people and then the charges fall apart.

 

[rareboy]

I don't even know where this belongs but it should have been the absolute end of this madness. And if there are no charges laid at the state level, there is no justice to be found.

Even though the Feds should be laying charges too.

 

[Alistair]

How many others? How are you hog tying yourself and hanging yourselves?

 

[KaraBulut]

The DOT is doing their best to increase the price of good by eliminating any long-haul truck drivers who can't demonstrate English proficiency, 'cause "America First". Note that there are no requirements for truck drivers who haul goods from Mexico to demonstrate Spanish proficiency.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/newsroom/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-signs-order-announcing-new-guidance-enforce

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Signs Order Announcing New Guidance to Enforce English Proficiency Requirement for Truckers

Today, U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Sean P. Duffy signed an order at a trucking event in Austin announcing new guidelines to strengthen English language enforcement for commercial truck operators. Under the new guidance, commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers who fail to comply with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) longstanding English-language proficiency (ELP) requirements will be placed out-of-service...

“America First means safety first. Americans are a lot safer on roads alongside truckers who can understand and interpret our traffic signs. This common-sense change ensures the penalty for failure to comply is more than a slap on the wrist,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy.

This new guidance is in line with the President’s April 2025 Executive Order to strengthen highway safety by ensuring that all commercial drivers are properly qualified and proficient in English, our national language.

In April, Secretary Duffy announced steps to rescind a dangerous Obama-era policy that dismissed ELP requirements for CMV drivers.

 

[rareboy]

Over the months, I have been made painfully aware that the title of this thread is false...pasted onto the discussion using the langauge of TrumpCo. in the early days. For that I am sorry.

 

[KaraBulut]

Over the months, I have been made painfully aware that the title of this thread is false...pasted onto the discussion using the langauge of TrumpCo. in the early days. For that I am sorry.

It is the appropriate title because that is what was on the signs held up at the Republican National Convention. Those pictures- of Aryan evangelicals holding up the signs- belong in the history books, along with the pictures of other fascistic slogans from the 20th century.

My favorite correction is "Mass deportation is family separate by another name". Ultimately, that is what it is. Rarely, ICE hunts down and grabs a high school kid. In almost every case, the people that ICE is kidnapping are adults with children. Those children might be at school when their parent is absconded and rushed to an out-of-state concentration camp. In other cases, the children might be adults who served in the military.

This is classic MAGA and classic Trump. Don't do anything about a problem until it festers. Kill any attempt to pass legislation to deal with the problem. Exploit the problem and claim you are the only one who can fix the problem. Lie about what you plan to do. Then when you get into power, do the most cruel, expensive and wasteful thing possible.

The billions of dollars being spent on capturing, imprisoning and deporting day care workers, landscapers and restaurant workers are billions that have been yanked from public schools and universities. It's money that could have gone to reduce tuition or provide grants toward tuition. This is not America investing in a future. It is America trying to recreate a glorious past that exists only in the imagination of people who know little about history.

 

[rareboy]

New Justice Department filings reveal that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who chose to defy a federal court order by transferring more than 100 Venezuelan men into Salvadoran custody to be imprisoned.

But nothing will happen to her.

 

[rareboy]

As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg has apparently ordered DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.

 

[rareboy]

It has never been about arresting and deporting criminals.

At least so far they aren't being dent to the ovens.