The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody increased to 66,000 this week, setting a new record high as Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News.
Never before has ICE held so many detainees facing deportation at any given time, according to officials, historical data and immigration policy experts.
ICE’s detainee population has ballooned by nearly 70% since Mr. Trump took office for a second time in January, when ICE was holding around 39,000 individuals in its detention system. The previous high before Mr. Trump’s second administration was recorded during his first term, in 2019, when ICE held about 56,000 detainees at one point, according to government figures compiled by researchers at Syracuse University.
Personally, I don’t give a shit if someone came here legally or not. Crossing an imaginary government line on a map somewhere isn’t a real crime.
In the US, it isn’t a crime at all. It’s a civil infraction. This whole thing is a farce.
Even though imaginary government lines on maps have existed for several hundred years now, it has only been considered a crime to cross them for about 100 years.
The hard border, border control, etc didnt exist until after 1900. Before that, people in northern Mexico and the southern US just went about their business in both countries as needed, and it was a significantly more functional region of the world.
They rally against the cartels as the reason for needing a more and more extreme hard border, but the hard border is what fucked up the entire region in the first place, thereby creating the conditions for the cartels to thrive