Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the first days of the Trump administration, has made hundreds of arrests of illegal immigrants across the U.S.

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    hilarious to think that law enforcement waited until now to arrest people for violent crimes. only a bunch of po-dunk morons would believe that.

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      If you look at news sources that aren’t Fox, they mention that there were about that many arrests per day during bidens presidency, too; it’s a big country.

      I’d believe that there would be some people in government who would hold off of arresting known threats to make Biden look bad/trump look good. There’s plenty of documented evidence of that sort of thing going on in the past.

      I bet some of the scary examples they sprinkle in there were cases like that, or cases where ice just took custody from local police and called it and arrest.

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        The dramatic difference is that ICE will probably start deporting the people they arrest now if they’re not here legally.

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    These people need to be put somewhere. And you know what happens when there’s nowhere left to put them? Concentration camps.

    Elon Musk but have one hell of a boner…

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      It’s insane how much this platform makes me question whether or not people are trolling

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          To say that the world will run out of space for all these illegals is a take that could only be taken seriously as a troll.

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            Do you believe illegal immigrants get nabbed and immediately tossed out of the country?

            No: they get detained. And with any luck, they wait for their day in court. If they’re not so lucky, they might wait the next bus to the border. And if they arrive in the next country in large enough numbers - assuming the country accepts them - then they get detained on the other side of the border.

            That’s how it works. But don’t let reality disturb your MAGA fantasy world.

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              Do you believe illegal immigrants get nabbed and immediately tossed out of the country?

              No, when did I say that?

              You are correct about the process. That is how things should be done. I don’t think being poor and brown should make you immune from having to follow the law.

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                I don’t think being poor and brown should make you immune from having to follow the law.

                Or white. Or President of the United States…

                Indeed you’re correct. My point is, due process - hell, even the simply physics of moving groups of people in a somewhat efficient and cost-effective way - implies holding people captive in places they’re desperate to leave. That’s called detention. And when detention centers are full - and if the Orange Utan really follows through with his promise, they will be full very soon - then concentration camps will spring up. They’ll have other names - temporary repatriation centers, processing centers… but that’s what they’ll be. And it’ll be a fucking stain on the United states.

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                  Per Wikipedia, it’s not a concentration camp unless it specifically targets:

                  political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups

                  Maybe you consider “criminal” to be a demographic? I don’t, maybe that’s where are disagreement lies here.

                  Bad take actually, let me correct that: concentration camps for criminals are and should be a thing, they’re called jails. It’s normal to support them.

                  That said I’ve generally opposed mass deportations in the United States. I don’t think they’re wrong to do at all, but I think it’s more important to secure the border, and it would be a better use of our resources to give the illegals who are here a path to citizenship that they may follow so long as they do not break any additional laws. If people here are going to work and be peaceful, there’s nothing to be lost by letting them live here and have full citizenship IMHO, even if it would technically be more just to boot them back to where they came from.