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With DHS rolling into a city near you™ it looks like they aren't going to wait and see how local pd react
by ideals 6y ago
With DHS rolling into a city near you™ it looks like they aren't going to wait and see how local pd react
- dredmorbius 6y agoDHS has a limited capacity to do this, given present staffing, funding, responsibilities, and capabilities. While DHS boasts an impressive headcount of 240,000 employees, the bulk are unlikely to be paramilitary goons of the sort seen in Portland and Seattle, where several dozen troops have had minimal effectiveness in projecting force more than a few metres from the federal courthouse. Additional requisitions from a deeply divided Congress are unlikely. Where just a single city's police force numbers over 55 thousands (NYPD), the prospect that a few hundreds, or even thousands, of reassigned TSA screeners and border patrol might play landlord-support squad in 100s of cities throughout the US to an ever-growing public resistance is parlors thin.
- zaarn 6y agoYou don't need to evict all people via DHS. Only enough that the rest has enough fear put in them to do it themselves.
- jhayward 6y agoDHS is already training up vigilante militia[1]. Don't underestimate what this administration is willing to do. "attendees will participate in scenario-based training and exercises conducted in a safe and positive environment, including, but not limited to defensive tactics, firearms familiarization, and targeted arrests." [1] https://www.npr.org/local/309/2020/07/10/889726473/i-c-e-citizens-trainings-may-be-a-vigilante-academy-chicago-alderman-warns https://www.npr.org/local/309/2020/07/10/889726473/i-c-e-cit...