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Trump orders ICE to expand deportations in Democratic cities (www.dw.com)

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Donald Trump took to Truth Social to call on ICE officials to expand efforts to "detain Illegal Aliens" in cities at the "core of Democrat Power Center." It comes after deportations in Los Angeles sparked protests.

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[–] FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In short, no.

The profit motive does not allow for this.

There is a reason red states are trying to choose back child labor laws.

In all honesty, this will probably result in more prison labor and a greater profit motive to lock up more people.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

lol… anything to max profits without any meaningful legislation. I hear you.

We need immigration reform… we’ve needed it since I was on the debate team in high school lmao…

I don’t think there are enough prisoners to make up for the illegal immigrant and under the board wage slavery our country has us in. (A hard working immigrant, for example, is going to maximize the process of picking tomatoes or radishes or whatever it is way better than any prison population is going to do.)

But… I’m going to remain optimistic and hopeful this can push us towards actual immigration reform… deporting undocumented immigrants who have lived hear since before they could speak English, let alone Spanish is fucking stupid.