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I think many posters are conflating ICE and CBP. Charlotte's Web was a CBP operation, which is strange because Charlotte is nowhere near a border (although I would support special enforcement operations to keep South Carolinians out.)
ICE will continue normal operations in Charlotte and throughout the country, but the CBP special operations (Midway Blitz, Charlotte’s Web, Swamp Sweep) is the traveling circus that moved from Chicago to Charlotte to New Orleans.
I believe they had multiple reasons for deploying CBP in these operations. Certainly they want to terrorize and traumatize the immigrant population. They think it will encourage traumatized immigrants to self-deport. I think they are using CBP because they have been unable to scale up ICE quickly enough. I also think they are trying to normalize the idea of masked paramilitary units roaming the streets of the US, while erasing the notion of probable cause to detain people. I read somewhere that they made 600 arrests in Chicago and only 16 had criminal records. I believe the primary goal of all of this thuggery is to inure the American public to “secret police” operations and testing the limits of how far they can push American to accept trampling their rights.
ICE will continue normal operations in Charlotte and throughout the country, but the CBP special operations (Midway Blitz, Charlotte’s Web, Swamp Sweep) is the traveling circus that moved from Chicago to Charlotte to New Orleans.
I believe they had multiple reasons for deploying CBP in these operations. Certainly they want to terrorize and traumatize the immigrant population. They think it will encourage traumatized immigrants to self-deport. I think they are using CBP because they have been unable to scale up ICE quickly enough. I also think they are trying to normalize the idea of masked paramilitary units roaming the streets of the US, while erasing the notion of probable cause to detain people. I read somewhere that they made 600 arrests in Chicago and only 16 had criminal records. I believe the primary goal of all of this thuggery is to inure the American public to “secret police” operations and testing the limits of how far they can push American to accept trampling their rights.