ICE Now Deporting People for Breathing Wrong
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Lola
Wednesday, 2025 Jun 25|
02:13 PM
ICE is back on its 2018 aesthetic—armed, aggressive, and aggressively missing the point.
While the Trump administration keeps claiming it's focused on “dangerous criminals,” new data shows ICE is mostly detaining people whose biggest offense is existing without papers and not being white enough to blend in at Whole Foods.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about murderers, gang leaders, or secret crime lords.
The majority of recent arrests involve immigrants with no criminal records—just traffic stops, expired documents, or the soul-crushing mistake of applying for asylum the “wrong” way.
Because in 2025, national security means deporting your neighbour’s nanny and patting yourself on the back.
And it’s not like ICE is hiding it.
They’re proudly tweeting numbers like it’s a leaderboard and not people’s actual lives.
Meanwhile, press conferences are filled with carefully curated mugshots and vague “public safety” statements, while the real story—the one where parents get torn from kids and grandmas get dragged from medical appointments—gets buried under patriotic soundbites.
The cruelty isn’t accidental. It’s strategic. It’s performative.
It’s the campaign trail with handcuffs.
The image of a strong border sells well in certain circles—especially when elections are looming and policy ideas are in short supply.
ICE raids play well on cable news, even when the reality is more “immigrant mom hiding in a church” than “drug lord in a trap house.” And while we’re here—let’s talk due process.
Or lack of it.
Many of the detained are given barely any legal support, often shuffled through fast-track deportation courts like it’s a speed dating event but with life-altering consequences.
This isn’t justice—it’s administrative roulette. The worst part? It works.
Not the deportations—but the optics. It gives voters the illusion of action.
“Look, we’re doing something.” Even if that something is ripping apart families and targeting people who’ve been here longer than half the senators writing the laws.
So yeah. ICE is back, baby. Not reformed. Not restrained.
Just louder, faster, and still allergic to nuance.
America: land of the free (until the paperwork’s not perfect).
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