This Is Unfortunately Not Tinfoil Hat Stuff

Jenn Bud suggests that the purpose is not to engage in immigration theater, nor is its purpose to deport thousands of people, (though that is a perceived benefit of these people), but rather its primary purpose to create an on the ground law enforcement infrastructure on the ground in Democratic voting areas that will be used to suppress voting.

I know that you may be thinking that this is just a conspiracy theory, but Jeb Bush did this in Florida in the 2000 elections, where state and local law enforcement aggressively impeded and harassed voters in minority areas.

Not only could it happen, it already has.

Believe it or not, there is a purpose behind which cities are raided by ICE that few are discussing.

The immigration enforcement agencies are not simply choosing the biggest, most blue cities to raid just because they hate them. Not even because they believe they are sanctuary cities who refuse to cower and bend the knee to their thugs. Not because they believe that these cities are full of criminal migrants, the worst of the worst as they say. Their own statistics prove this point as 97% of Chicago arrests had no criminal record.

Yet, not a single media outlet has bothered to ask why. If ICE and CBP are not meeting their goals of arresting the worst of the worst. What are they doing? What is the real purpose of these raids?

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The purpose of these raids is to establish and [maintain? strengthen?] a law enforcement infrastructure to target these specific cities during the upcoming elections.

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Additionally, the DOJ has issued the new domestic terrorist directive redefining the term to mean essentially anyone who obstructs federal agents, is pro-immigrant and anti-fascist. Secretary Noem recently stated, “American citizens are increasingly under threat from assassination attempts, intimidation tactics, and violence perpetrated by our adversaries, radical Islamist extremists, and radical Left-wing terrorists.” And Trump issued an executive order to expand the jurisdiction of the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to his political opponents and those he deems “radical Left-wing terrorists.”

These are the tools they intend to use soon during elections.

I expect this administration, Secretary Noem and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott to order federal immigration agents to accost voters as they stand in line on voting day. Those of color, specifically Latinos, will have their citizenship questioned. And judging by how the agencies are grabbing people without even conducting on-site citizenship interviews, then taking them into ICE custody for a day, or two or three before letting them go, I expect this will be used to prevent citizens from voting. I wouldn’t even be surprised if Border Patrol set up checkpoints in areas of high Latino populations. 

As I noted above, Jeb Cush did the exactly this in 2000.