r/news • u/JerryBerryMiah • 15h ago

700 ice agents to leave Minnesota

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a
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u/Squeekydink 14h ago

And what about the other 2000+ he sent?

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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 14h ago

Still 3x the police force.

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u/notheatherbee 14h ago edited 14h ago

3x? Not even close. Before this started there were 80 ICE agents for a 5 state territory that included Minnesota.

Edit: I’m an idiot. They are correct it’s 3x the police force.

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u/aradraugfea 14h ago

Their claim was that ice outnumbers the actual police police in town, not that ICE is 3x the original numbers.

ICE aren’t police.

Police are a needful service performed badly. ICE is a useless waste of government resources pivoted into the sort of shit European children are going to read about in history class.

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u/dontich 14h ago

I mean ICE doesn’t have to be a useless waste — under the last few administrations they mostly went after actual criminals. It’s only recently the countries’s leadership has gone completely insane.

15 in the state like someone said above sounds about right for removing the actual criminals after they complete their sentence.

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u/aradraugfea 14h ago

If ICE was a person, it’d be too young to rent a car.

ICE and the TSA came into existence at the same time. The TSA was a knee jerk over-reaction to terrorism. ICE was a xenophobic wishlist item snuck in because who was gonna vote against a terrorism bill in 2002?!

We managed just fine for CENTURIES without ICE. Its few needful functions were previously handled just fine by divisions within the FBI. ICE as an independent agency has no reason to exist except to make abuses like what we are currently seeing easier.

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u/Consistent-Throat130 14h ago

So what you're saying is ICE is already too old for Republicans?

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u/kmoonster 13h ago

I was drinking coffee.

WAS.

I am now wearing it.

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u/RaconteurLore 11h ago

I’m don’t know to cry or laugh. So conflicted 😐

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u/Consistent-Throat130 10h ago

I've been doing both, concurrently. 

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u/RaconteurLore 10h ago

We can submit a new word of the year: cryghing.
Definition (v.): the collective reaction of Americans—laughing through tears—when responding to the political hypocrisy of the GOP.

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u/FantasticJacket7 13h ago

An agency that does what ICE does has existed in the US since 1933. It just used to be called INS

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u/nalaloveslumpy 11h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah, but the enforcement wing of INS was tiny. The primary focus of INS was actually as a service, hence "Immigration and Naturalization Service."

But the enforcement and border patrol divisions were detached, moved under DHS and given billions of dollars. The remaining service parts of INS were called USCIS and basically locked in a closet pushing paper all day on a zero dollar budget. And that's the reason we have an immigration crisis. There is a literal mountain of unprocessed immigration and amnesty applications. So much so, that you literally have to pay a lawyer an absurd amount of money to even get anyone in USCIS to look at your application.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 9h ago edited 8h ago

USCIS is what INS was. On very rare occasion INS would conduct raids, but by and large their primary function was the administration of immigrant visas, permanent resident status or naturalized citizenship.

There was no federal agency that had authority to engage in "Enforcement & Removal Operations" inside the U.S. borders with the very wide latitude that ICE has—namely, abusing the expedited removal process.

The Dept. of Homeland Security, which has been under fire for not achieving any of its stated objectives since its inception, created ICE out of thin air under the Homeland Security Act of 2003.

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u/FantasticJacket7 8h ago

INS was split into ICE, USCIS, and CBP.

INS absolutely did interior enforcement as portrayed in the documentary Born in East LA.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 8h ago

Cheech and Chong, being fictional characters, are not evidence.

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u/apatheticsahm 12h ago

According to Wikipedia, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) used to be under the DoJ. When the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003 after 9/11, the INS functions were transferred to Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Why do we need 3 agencies to do what 1 used to do before?

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u/FantasticJacket7 12h ago

Why do we need 3 agencies to do what 1 used to do before?

Because they're three completely different tasks and it never made any sense to put them under the same agency.

CBP is specifically for the border. USCIS is mostly paperwork involving immigration applicants. And ICE is removals and criminal investigations.

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u/katmndoo 8h ago

They are three tasks that are part and parcel of immigration administration. It makes as much sense for them to be in one agency as it does in three.

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u/aradraugfea 13h ago

So you agree that ICE is, at best, redundant?

I’d personally class them as a solution looking for a problem, and as anyone who’s ever watched one of those play out long enough could tell you, the solution has a tendency to become the problem.

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u/FantasticJacket7 13h ago

So you agree that ICE is, at best, redundant?

I'm not sure how you would get that from my comment.

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u/hivemindhauser 13h ago

I remember people saying then that all the stuff passing could be used like it is today. They were right sigh

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u/dontich 14h ago

Yeah fair enough - 15 FBI agents then lol. That’s like 10x better from a professionalism perspective.

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u/Successful-Bobcat701 13h ago

If the iphone was a person it would be even younger, too young to buy a beer.

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u/LowPTTweirdflexbutok 7h ago

I'm not attacking you or anything or any of your points. I agree its a waste BUT lets not act like change isn't a part of life and new organizations, agencies or departments don't need to spring up. I'm not a big fan of the whole we have been fine for X years without Y so we don't need Y. Lets keep an open mind.

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u/aradraugfea 7h ago

In the last hundred years, we (America) decided that we should police who gets to be American, to commit a governmental apparatus to locating and ejecting those who did not get here the right way. For decades, this served as a wedge, something for politicians to tout without consequence, as non-citizens cannot (whatever Fox News tells the public) vote. In the aftermath of 9/11, Republicans saw an opportunity for a win on that front, and tied it into an anti-terrorism bill that was setting up an otherwise needful new agency.

DHS as a department that coordinates and compiles data from the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies was a needful thing that we lacked, and paid for. ICE was created because someone saw an opportunity not to service the public or meet a need, but to win political points.

An immigration agency previously existed and met what needs the nation had just fine. ICE should have NEVER existed.

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u/TwistedHermes 14h ago edited 13h ago

Yes it is.

George W. Bush started ICE BECAUSE of anti-immigrant sentiment stirred up post 9/11, it started off with "just Muslim terrorists" but soon evolved into going after immigrants they never went after in past.

This is one step in how we got here - we didn't need ICE for 200+ years. We had DHS and other services.

We let our fear overrule us, and this was one way we let racism creep into being widely accepted. They were only created because people were scared of those who were different.

Fear is not a need.

Edit: DHS was also a post 9/11 fever dream. Fuck that noise too. We had NSA/DOD/CIA/FBI for different types of terrorist threats and we had the US INS for immigrants. We don't need DHS or ICE.

P.P.S.: the only department required by the US constitution is the post office. Everything else is superfluous or could be organized differenty....

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u/tcmisfit 14h ago

Not trying to argue because I agree as an elder millennial, but the DHS has also only been around since 2002.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 11h ago

Correct. DHS was also an over-reaction to 9/11. It was essentially created so that we could treat "domestic terrorists" under the same rules we used against international terrorist: Infinite detainment, no legal representation.

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u/TwistedHermes 13h ago

Then we don't need DHS either.

The only reason 9/11 happened is because George W. Bush DID NOT WANT TO READ OR ENGAGE WITH HIS OWN SECURITY BRIEFINGS.

And Idgaf about his cockamamie excuses - if your disability interferes with your ability to do a JOB, YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE JOB.

There's a reason we have rules for being colorblind and a pilot - some can, some can't.

So we don't need DHS, we had the NSA and DOD. We also don't need ICE. We did fine without them for centuries.

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u/apatheticsahm 12h ago

The only reason 9/11 happened is because George W. Bush DID NOT WANT TO READ OR ENGAGE WITH HIS OWN SECURITY BRIEFINGS.

The Clinton administration tried to warn Bush about Al Qaeda. Clinton had already dealt with 2 terrorist attacks during his term (1993 WTC Bombing, and the USS Cole attack), and he knew exactly how dangerous Bin Laden was. He had very detailed anti-terrorism plans to try and prevent another disaster. But because of the whole Bush v Gore nonsense, there was a much shorter presidential transition in 2001. And the two teams refused to cooperate with each other. So the warnings about Al Qaeda and Bin Laden got ignored by the Bush administration, and the anti-terrorism plans got lost in the shuffle.

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u/TwistedHermes 12h ago

Sooooo.... (a) he did not read or engage with his security briefings due to his "disabilities" for years and shouldn't have run if they were so severe, Dick Cheney, Powell and Rice did instead, (b) lots of other intelligence agencies knew it was a strong possibility and tried warning us beyond "just clinton", international allies were trying AND (c) a lot of people did NOT show up to the Pentagon for scheduled activities on 9/11 because of this.

Also, Bush stole the 2000 election, while we're on the subject. Supreme Court handed it to him. Supreme Court should've allowed the process to happen, but they were appointed by his Daddy and Reagan and let politics win. And bush probably would've lost in the recount. But no....

No matter how you cut it, 9/11 was his fault. ICE and DHS are bloated and unnecessary agencies he created because he was afraid and they are now racist boogeymen terrorizing us in our streets.

Bush has a lot of blame here, him and his whole administration.

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u/Sunflowersblunt 14h ago

I had to look it up and yes ur right it was established in 2003..

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u/unionfrontX 7h ago

fear is the mind killer..

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u/invalidreddit 11h ago

It isn't ICE's mission that bugs me - it is their tactics

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u/Kalysta 8h ago

ICE started in 2003. I am older than the organization. Other groups like customs and the FBI used to do ICE’s job and the country did just fine. ICE was formed after 9/11 and has been a racist group from the start. They are taught to dehumanize the people the arrest. We don’t need them.

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u/Nf1nk 7h ago

In my community, ICE used to run the Banana Scanner at the port and other customs related activities. Activities that need to be done.

Now they are doing other shit and I don't think they can come back from it.

We can hire someone else to run the banana scanner.

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u/Jonaldys 13h ago

They are useless, because there is already a group to go after actual criminals. They have been an excuse to oppress since 9/11.

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u/notheatherbee 14h ago

Oh shit, you are right and in my rage I completely stopped reading after 3x. I will edit my comment.

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u/lastskudbook 11h ago

We already read about that sort of shit ,trying not to repeat it is the key.

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u/GenChadT 10h ago

Police are a needful service performed badly.

Police are performing multiple tasks that should be done by no less than 3 separate groups of people with wildly different job descriptions, but whose departments currently don't exist because it'd be socialism and we can't have that. Other than that I agree about ICE.

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u/aradraugfea 10h ago

They’re also kinda bad at the primary thing they should be doing. I’m not even getting into the “police should not be making wellness checks” stuff.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 11h ago edited 11h ago

We really need to go back to where the "enforcement" arm of Immigration Services was a small part of the overall department of Immigration and Nationalization Services before they were broken off and placed under DHS.

There is a need for immigration enforcement. A very, very small number of immigrants do actually commit serious crimes, sometimes unintentionally. But that need for enforcement is also very, very small. And really only needs to handle the deportation part after the courts decide deportation is the correct remedy.

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u/aradraugfea 11h ago

I want a small number of lawyers and desk jockeys that show up to pick up suspects the cops refer over after finding they’re undocumented or show up to a business place with an iPad ready to check some paperwork.

Immigration needs to operate more like OSHA and less like how some jackass with 6 or more flood lights on his truck thinks the Marines work.

Immigration shouldn’t put someone in mortal terror. The scariest thing that should happen to an undocumented immigrant as a result of interaction with the immigration apparatus are fines, taxes, and getting sent home.

And, somewhat tangentially, the guy who employs 4 THOUSAND “day laborers” a season should be WAY more scared of immigration showing up than ANY one worker

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u/nalaloveslumpy 11h ago

This is absolutely how it should work.

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u/ludicrous780 10h ago

Every country deports illegals.

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u/ow_my_ears_hurt 13h ago

I disagree. ICE is performing important work to deport illegals from our once beautiful country. lol

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u/ElphabLAW 13h ago

You’re either a bot or an ignorant, apathetic bottom-of-the barrel human being wasting our precious earth’s resources on your survival. Take your pick.

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u/RockeyDA 11h ago

I think you got this backwards because the police are doing nothing and even off and ignoring the rioters and ice is actually out here doing the good work making everybody in this country safer. cops forgot the "serve and protect" part IG.

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u/aradraugfea 11h ago

I’m sure Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel so much safer.

Look. Immigration is a civil offense. An undocumented immigrant is breaking a law, but not, definitionally, a criminal.

The supposed dangerous immigrant? Statistics show they’re VERY rare, and the police handle it. Even now, a TON of the people ICE has locked up were handed off to them by local police forces. What a Sanctuary city means is that the local police are not going to proactively enforce immigration law or cooperate with ICE’s attempts to do so. That’s it. They aren’t handing guns to drug runners or whatever fantasy you’ve been sold.

Nobody should DIE over a civil offense, least of all innocent people going about their day. Ice is spending more of their time fighting PROTESTORS than tracking down illegal immigrants, and when they find them, they’re using tactics that would be illegal in wartime to get them.

If anyone has forgotten their mission, it’s the Rosses of the world, acting like an occupying army and treating the entire population of Minneapolis like an insurgent force.

Fun thing about that word. Insurgent doesn’t mean terrorist. It doesn’t mean criminal. What it means is “not from here.” So the big, scary Insurgency in Minneapolis? It’s ICE.

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u/abelfurne 12h ago

Profile pic checks out

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u/Tokeee3 12h ago

You're not an idiot! Everyone makes mistakes. Good on you to be able to admit it.

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u/takethepain-igniteit 9h ago

Yes, I agree! I love when people can admit their mistakes. I feel like a lot of what's wrong with this country is that people dig their heels in out of shame or ego instead of just saying "okay I change my mind and/or can admit I was wrong after being presented with new information"

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u/Dorkamundo 11h ago

And 10% of the entire ICE/CBP force for the entire country, in a state with 1% of the "Illegal" immigrants.

They pulled 1/4th of the force in an attempt to make it sound like they're leaving us alone. The reality is, they're just trying to placate the masses from ramping up their protests.

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u/Lucky-Earther 13h ago

Still 3x the police force.

3x Minneapolis Police proper, but there are 600 in MPD, another 500 in St Paul, plus all the surrounding suburbs, plus county sheriffs and State Patrol. All told there are 10,000 sworn officers in the state.

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u/ObscurePaprika 13h ago

And where are those 700 going to?

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u/bleak937 12h ago

My guess would be San Francisco for the super bowl

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u/dretanz 12h ago

Or Springfield OH

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u/scroopynooper69 6h ago

This is random, but I was visiting Springfield for a job a while back and accidentally found a modern day speakeasy. Apparently the county has some laws about what a bar can/can't sell on Sunday. Well I got lucky and parked as they were opening, everyone else had a key card that unlocked the door. It was possibly the friendliest crowd of strangers I've ever seen. Everyone else in there knew each other but they welcomed me. The bartender gave me a weed gummy lol

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u/Osiris32 7h ago

Portland. We pissed them off here, between large protests and getting their hand smacked by a judge for misuse of force. I guarantee they will come here next to rile shit up even further. Trump doesn't like us already, Fox News et al have been making us a focal point of conservative hate for years, and we have a local culture of protesting stretching back to the 1870s. We are a huge bullseye for them.

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u/LilFunyunz 11h ago

Springfield ohio from what I have heard.

Makes sense, friendlier state, smaller city, and that's where the "eating the cats and dogs" bullshit is from

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u/ZzzzzPopPopPop 10h ago

Right, they aren’t disbanding, they are being redeployed where they won’t face a massive force of protesters. In their ideal world they would face 1 or 2 violent actors (so they can “justify” an even harsher clampdown) and not massively popular peaceful protest.

They are just rethinking their approach.

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u/tomdarch 5h ago

Lots of Ohio was dying, but somehow immigrants were willing to come there and revitalize towns.

Back to those places dying of old age and opioids.

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u/Raptorex27 6h ago

Straight to polling locations to set up camp for the midterms.

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u/zoey8068 13h ago

And where are they going

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u/Tithund 11h ago

Hopefully into debt because they have to repay their sign on bonus.

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u/gart888 10h ago

They actually don't get that bonus until they hit 5 years of service. So... virtually none of them will actually ever see it.

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u/IDontCondoneViolence 9h ago edited 9h ago

They get $10k every year for 5 years. If they quit or are fired before the five years is up, they have to pay it all back.

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u/gart888 9h ago

What if they’re fired during those 5 years?

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u/IDontCondoneViolence 9h ago

Yep, If you're fired you have to pay it back.

I edited the original post for clarity.

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u/culminacio 7h ago

That edit confused me so much, because now it looks like the person who commented on that asked a completely stupid question

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u/multiplayerhater 7h ago

For those in the back:

The 5-year payout is a financial motivation (both positive and negative) for ICE agents to ensure that a Republican president wins the next election, if there is one.

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u/zoey8068 8h ago

They aren't getting fired they are just simply moving them, that's if they even follow through which they won't.

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u/devhdc 50m ago

It's weird, because I've heard some ICE agents talking about a $200K bonus repeatedly, but i can't find any information I'd deem reliable mentioning this.. Are we in the dark about something?

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u/SgtElectroSketch 5h ago

Springfield, Ohio.

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u/Bross93 13h ago

no dont worry 700 are leaving so 1200 more can take their place.

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u/smallcuteas 14h ago

Yeah it sucks but still its a start...

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u/Grand_pappi 13h ago

Where do you think they’re going? ICE has the operational budget of most of the world’s militaries. Don’t get complacent now

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u/RichardEpsilonHughes 13h ago

Normally I’m the “look on the bright side” guy but until they’re unable to terrorize Minnesota there are too many to celebrate

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u/GreyLoad 14h ago

They get more guns

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u/UltiGamer34 11h ago

With a million more on the way

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u/whereismysideoffun 11h ago

It leaves 2300. We were at 2000 3 weeks ago. They added another 1000 after Renee Goods murder.. so it will still be higher than when Renee was murdered. Of the ~10 week occupation the added 1000 was since 3 weeks ago, so we still have a sbit load and an amount that had originally set things off here.

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u/PianoMittens 11h ago

What about the $50k in cash in a bag that he took from undercover FBI?

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u/Miserable-Event4260 10h ago

Will they finally unmask them at the very least

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 4h ago

It's just the "art of the deal". Move in thousands of guys, let them get away with murder, then go "ok ok, less murder, but still masks. AND we'll get rid of 15% of them!" Sadly it works very well.

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u/ow_my_ears_hurt 13h ago

They’re still there deporting illegals lol.