Will “mass deportation” actually happen (6 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

It’s so repulsive to see people cheering for what is basically 80% the same thing as the Holocaust - different end result but otherwise very similar.

Economists have said it would tank the economy and cause inflation - notwithstanding the cost.

Is it going to actually happen or is this Build The Wall 2.0?

 

[Sendai]

Brandon is correct, unless there are aggravating circumstances tied to it, speeding is an infraction.

Depends on the state

https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-tickets/speeding-state-laws.html

 

[Optimus Prime]

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by President Donald Trump last year as he pitched voters on his plans for an immigration crackdown is now bracing to defend the community against possible deportation.

A group of about 100 community members, clergy and Haitian leaders in Springfield, Ohio, gathered this week for several days of training sessions as they prepare to defend potential deportees and provide them refuge.

“We feel that this is something that our faith requires, that people of faith are typically law-abiding people — that’s who we want to be — but if there are laws that are unjust, if there are laws that don’t respect human dignity, we feel that our commitment to Christ requires that we put ourselves in places where we may face some of the same threats,” said Carl Ruby, senior pastor of Central Christian Church.

Ruby said the ultimate goal of the group is to persuade the Trump administration to reverse its decision to terminate legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. under temporary protected status, or TPS.

“One way of standing with the Haitians is getting out the message of how much value they bring to the city of Springfield,” he said. “It would be an absolute disaster if we lost 10,000 of our best workers overnight because their TPS ends and they can no longer work.”.........

Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by Trump braces to defend them against deportation

An Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by President Donald Trump last year as he pitched voters on his plans for an immigration crackdown is now bracing to defend them against possible deportation.

apnews.com

 

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[MT15]

I don’t know that the distinction is whether it’s civil or criminal but rather whether it is a misdemeanor traffic violation or rises to a felony violation.

According to Sendai’s link of speeding infractions in all states - there are zero felony speeding violations. I am assuming it has to be enhanced to a different violation - like reckless driving - to reach felony status.

There were plenty of states where speeding is a civil matter. I think FL is one of them, it lists speeding as a non-criminal traffic infraction. Other states it was a misdemeanor.

Over half the states (32) consider speeding non-criminal. A few have a sliding scale - meaning you have to be going a certain higher speed or have multiple offenses - before it is considered a misdemeanor.

So we both have learned things.

 

[SamAndreas]

Depends on the state

https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-tickets/speeding-state-laws.html

I spect you're talking about a warts with whiskers, not states. >>> The Jimmy Crow South

 

[MT15]

 

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As the Trump administration bulks up its mass deportation machine, officials have relied on a network of for-profit prison companies that run the overwhelming majority of America’s immigration detention centers.

One of the officials overseeing those contracts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the government’s Department of Homeland Security, is a former executive from a top private prison firm, GEO Group, which manages 20 detention centers across the country.

According to The Washington Post, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan approached David Venturella for a role in the administration, despite federal ethics rules that largely prohibit government employees from working on contracts with their former employers.

Instead, Venturella was hired by the Department of Homeland Security as a full-time adviser and was granted a waiver from those ethics rules, according to the newspaper. Doing so has kept him out of the public eye and away from potentially contentious Senate confirmation hearings, the newspaper noted

Venturella worked as an assistant director at ICE before he was recruited by GEO Group in 2012. He left the company in 2023 though he stayed on as a paid consultant through January 31, according to company filings reviewed byThe Washington Post
This apparent revolving door has also swung in the other direction.

Days before the 2024 election, a top official at ICE left his position to take a senior role at GEO. Daniel Bible, who worked for ICE for nearly 15 years, is now a senior vice president at the company.

At least six former ICE officials who left government work over the past decade now work in top roles at the company, according to reporting from nonprofit Project on Government Oversight. The group found a “long tradition of ICE officials departing to work for the agency’s top contractor,” part of the so-called “revolving door” between the federal government and the private sector……….

‘Revolving door’ between ICE and private prisons boosts Trump’s deportation plans

Federal ethics rules largely prohibit government employees from working on contracts with their former employers. David Venturella, a former executive at GEO Group, was granted a waiver from those rules

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Tom Homan insists Mahmoud Khalil will be deported: ‘First Amendment has limits’

White House officials insist Columbia University grad will be removed despite courts ruling against them

www.independent.co.uk

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

In response to the thread title

Will “mass deportation” actually happen​

They’ll be lucky to a million in four years.

The attitude expressed in the comment above is depraved, immoral and inhumane. This is a reflection of Trump, the Republicans, those who voted for them, and those who make excuses and apologies for them, like in the post quoted above.

 

[superchuck500]

 

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After he was arrested outside his Virginia apartment in March, Georgetown University professor Badar Khan Suri was briefly detained in the state before being put on a plane bound for an immigration detention center more than 1,000 miles away.

Suri — who was targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for his Palestinian activism and his family ties to Gaza — arrived at the only ICE facility that doubles as an airport, without his attorneys having any idea where he was.

Officers told Suri that he had entered the nation’s “super deportation center,” according to his attorneys.

The college professor was shackled at the ankles and handcuffed then marched into a 70,000 square foot “staging facility” in Alexandria, Louisiana, which has emerged as the nexus point for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine.

Suri is far from alone. Since Trump returned to the White House, more than 20,000 people en route to other detention centers have passed through the Louisiana facility — which ICE officials have long aspired to operate like corporate giants FedEx and Amazon.

ICE’s acting director Todd Lyons has bluntly compared the movement of people to packages.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business, where this mass deportation operation is something like you would see and say, like, Amazon trying to get your Prime delivery within 24 hours,” Lyons told a law enforcement conference in Phoenix earlier this year.…….

ICE turned Louisiana into America’s deportation capital. The inspiration was Amazon and FedEx ‘with human beings’​

 

[MT15]

I wish they would quit calling them deportation centers when they are just basically imprisoning people. We routinely hear about people being held for multiple months.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Trump and his fellow Republicans are in the process of attempting a military coup from within.

It's up to the rest of us to stop them. If we don't stop them, millions will be murdered. They won't murder everyone overnight.

They will methodically demonize one vulnerable group after another. The homeless are next after immigrants. The demonization has already been there for decades and it's being escalated. There has been systemic criminalization of being homeless all across the country.

What's happening now is only the tip of the iceberg that Trump and his fellow Republicans intend on inflicting on us. They're just getting started. Again, it's up to the rest of us to stop them.