A friend with experience in the intel world said something to me today that has stayed with me: that the Trump ICE raids terrorizing COC have the feel of filling a quota, and doing so by going after immigrants who will be easy to arrest (non-violent people with community ties...
and DREAMers who after all, self-disclosed their addresses and other contact info.) If that is the case, are ICE agents essentially behaving the way police departments have when given quotas to use tickets and other minor offenses to boost local revenues?
Are we living a national "Ferguson scenario" where ICE agents are engaged in deportation number inflation to allow Trump to say he kept his campaign promise to run "illegals" out of the U.S.? Of course Trump will claim they are "dangerous aliens" and gang members...
but ICE doesn't have to deal with as many actually dangerous people when they can grab math teachers, doctors and baseball dads who won't resist, and are easy to grab, detain and deport. And when you don't care about the optics of crying families and kids...
...because those aren't people your base gives a damn about... just something to think about...
