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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
- master_crab 2y agoIf Trump were a tech bro, gaming SEO is what he would do. Maybe this is what all those nifty DOGE engineers are doing.
- like_any_other 2y agoSo all the anti-deportation/anti-border activists can relax, because it's not happening?
- ImJamal 2y agoIt is happening, but at lower rates than Biden.
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- rayiner 2y agoBBC says 10 million illegal immigrants came in under Biden: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jp4xqx2z3o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jp4xqx2z3o How do you get lower rates under Trump? Are you saying Biden was deporting 2 million+ people a year to offset that?
- ImJamal 2y agoI'm talking about deportations not entries, since that is what this article is about.
- like_any_other 2y agoSo why increase protests when this administration is, allegedly, friendlier to immigrants?
- stetrain 2y agoI’m not sure that a president two weeks into his term not yet achieving all of the things he has promised he will do is reason to relax about those promises.
- aishsbcic 2y agoTrumps currently on track to deport less than Biden. ICE is underfunded and he realistically can’t get any new funding for at least a few months. Much like his first time around, he’s hoping deterrence etc will at least stop the inflow. Maybe this changes, but I doubt it. Trumps not really an “America first” candidate - that’s just a ruse to get elected. He is on track to deport millions of Palestinians however.
- Waterluvian 2y agoIt feels positively bizarre to read this comment and then read the final sentence. I’m simply befuddled at how to even formulate a response. I’m not sure what’s actually true yet. But that feels argumentatively inconsistent. Do they have a budget to deport millions of people or not?
- mthoms 2y agoI think they are referring to deporting Palestinians from Gaza. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9xgj2429o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9xgj2429o
- Waterluvian 2y agoAh right. Thanks.
- stetrain 2y agoPretty sure that (presumably) military action in a foreign country comes out of a different budget than domestic immigration enforcement.
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- thatguy0900 2y agoThe enemy is always both very strong and very weak, depending on what kind of story you're telling
- araes 2y agoAt least part is probably due to the main news stories that were happening on 1/24/2025. That was the day that ICE started their "Nationwide Deportation Operation" on immigrants and it was the same day that a judge blocked the order for ending "Birthright Citizenship." Here's the summaries from Democracy Now and NYTimes. Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/headlines https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/headlines NyTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2025/01/24/todays-new-york-times https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2025/01/24/todays-... Whether it was the SEO folks changing stories to jump to the top of results based on the news, or whether it was the administration trying to get PR support for the activity, it was likely a response. At least from a personal perspective, there's a chance that it's not especially "nefarious" on the part of the administration, and that it's mostly SEO folks just changing content to try to manipulate search results and jump themselves back into relevance.
- Geeek 2y agoSEO folks working for whom?
- Arnavion 2y agoI don't know (or care about) whether there's any gaming in this specific case, but note that the dates that Google assigns to search results aren't reliable in the first place. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547453
- microtherion 2y agoRecently, the Trump administration took credit for using threats of tariffs to badger Canada into announcing a $1.3B border reinforcement plan. One problem with that claim is that this plan was already announced in December: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/government-of-canada-announces-its-plan-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/g...
- readthenotes1 2y agoDid a check on “ice arrests Idaho” and got different results in DDG and Google -- almost all of them pointed to a copy of this article. Fixed, or perhaps never happened. Hard to know these days
- jimmydoe 2y agoTrump was never serious about his promises, but he’s good at performing it. DOGE seems to be the only real major change now, apparently Musk is serious about it. Trump will probably drag Musk to recycle bin a year from now to make himself more likable.