How about we treat people humanely? How about we focus on the criminals and dangerous people first instead of getting people that have pending citizenship appointments. How about we don't grab people from hospitals, schools, and places of worship? How about we try to get citizenship easier access for these folks who are clearly living and contributing successfully to our society? How about we don't have masked thugs grabbing anyone of color off the street?

Its extremely easy to do better than they are. Biden and Obama did in fact do this and successfully. They are not trying to do it well, they are trying to do it cruelly. The cruelty is the point.

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commandlinefan 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> focus on the criminals and dangerous people first

That's what they say they are doing? Every time I read about them arresting somebody who was "just picking their kids up from school", it turns out to be some professional agitator who was trying to get arrested in exchange for a photo op.

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spit2wind 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How does one become to be a professional agitator? Indeed.com comes up with no results. I have a friend who's bored with their job.

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cmtm4 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If that were true, they'd be showing up with real warrants (super easy if these are convicted felon illegal immigrants as they claim! But of course there are nowhere near as many of those as, say, the "thousands" they claim exist in Minneapolis) and mostly dressing in much more ordinary federal agent clothes and it'd all be boring and uneventful and legal enough that most of what they're doing would hardly even be noticed.

Going several thousand(!) strong into a US city and rolling around town in paramilitary convoys questioning people who don't "look American", to... "support fraud investigations" apparently, LOL, WTF... among other things, is why they're a hot topic right now. If they were doing what they claim to be doing, this would all be boring stuff.

Frankly I don't feel like I should be having to explain why guys in SUVs wearing plate carriers and comically overloaded with blinged out Call of Duty gear driving around a US city and sometimes jumping out literally going "papers, please" to people who "look foreign", all while universally masking up to hide their identities, is extremely fucking bad, to the point that I think that language is way too mild, but here we are I guess.

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buffington 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Every time I read about them arresting somebody...

You're clearly not reading enough and are a part of the problem if you believe what you're saying to be true.

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commandlinefan 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not 100% sure what to believe, but I have been around long enough to take everything I read with a grain of salt.

	▲	ambicapter 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Gonna need more than a grain these days.

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timeon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> That's what they say they are doing?

Hardly with president convicted of sexual assault (among other things).

	▲	commandlinefan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		See, this is exactly why I don't believe the things I read - his only actual conviction was for falsifying business records. (He is a convicted felon, though, that's indisputable).

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negzero7 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They can self deport and get paid doing so, it doesn't get any more humane than that really.

	▲	cheese4242 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Cost-free travel back home, a $1,000 exit bonus, and forgiveness of any "failure to depart" fines. Quite generous. Over the Holidays they even increased the exit bonus to $3000: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/22/increased-incentives-dhs... Yet another reason why I find the haphazard comparisons to Nazi Germany/Gestapo so farcical.

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1234letshaveatw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Biden did not do it successfully, or most of anything really