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Is there any documented evidence on the efficacy of ICE raids? They seem to function primarily as a destabilizing force in communities. We certainly seemed to b
by spamizbad 7y ago
Is there any documented evidence on the efficacy of ICE raids? They seem to function primarily as a destabilizing force in communities. We certainly seemed to be doing fine prior to 2003.
From what I can see, they're a bloated DHS organ that's sucking down massive amounts of tax dollars for what amounts to security theater. You'd think in the $47 billion DHS budget they'd find some money for things like soap and toothbrushes.
- AlexTWithBeard 7y agoYes, there is evidence, right on the ICE website: https://www.ice.gov/features/ERO-2018 https://www.ice.gov/features/ERO-2018
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- spamizbad 7y agoA sweep targeting thousands of people nation-wide resulted in only 35 arrests: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-23/ice-raids-immigration-arrests https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-23/ice-ra... The number on ICE's website are computed based on an Obama-era change where they can count turning away people at the border as a deportation.
- AlexTWithBeard 7y agoDid I get it right that you're complaining about ICE not making enough arrests?
- spamizbad 7y agoI'm saying it's a bloated government organ that spends billions of tax-payer dollars to perform what amounts to security theater. You could cut it down to 1/10th the size and pass the savings on to tax payers (or allocate somewhere more effective) and get better outcomes. Even if you support their mission There's really nothing defensible ICE. They're sucking down billions while being bad at what they do.
- mLuby 7y agoThe raids are efficacious, not in their legal purpose of securing the homeland and enforcing the rule of law but in their political purpose of providing media-worthy evidence to voters that the ruling party is aggressively protecting those voters from The Other. $47B to stay in power is a steal.