• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “You’re talking about officers in tactical gear going into communities, being videotaped in the streets, putting kids in car seats, carrying baby formula. Then what do you do with those families?” said Jason Houser, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s chief of staff from January 2022 until March 2023. “Are you going to go into neighborhoods in Philly, New York, Baltimore and start tugging people out of communities? That’s what they want. It puts law enforcement and the communities at risk.”

    People were infuriated by children being separated from their families and put in cages, but it was all happening “elsewhere,” so there was a disconnect. Militarized mass deportation will be very different. Trigger-happy feds targeting families and dragging them out of their homes en masse. Shootings, violence, and the sheer terror of it will all be happening in every community and not just at some distant border.

    Even some of the “cruelty is the point” crowd are going to have misgivings when they see this policy in action.

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          Dems: If we speed up the trolley people will suffer for less time while it’s running them over! They won’t have to agonize as long while the trolley approaches to snuff out their life! Progress!

          GOP: Surely more people on the track means more profit! Can we start stacking them up to fit more?

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      I just don’t see this happening at all. Scouring neighborhoods to find illegal immigrants like this sounds horribly inefficient and dangerous (not to mention awkward and shameful for the people who have to do it?) Building a giant wall across the border sounds more realistic than this.

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      People were infuriated by children being separated from their families and put in cages,

      They were?

      Who’s organizing the massive caravan on track to hit the US Border, just in time for the Election?

      -Pat Robertson

      [Jesus] did live in Egypt for three and a half years. But it was not illegal. If He had broken the law, then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah.

      -Paula White

      Let me know if you need more quotes from prominent Christian leaders endorsing children in cages.