T-Day
Huh. Trump is basically invading US cities he considers insufficiently harsh to immigrants.
THE TRUMP administration will send specially trained officers from the southern border to so-called sanctuary cities to help with immigration enforcement operations in a clear escalation of President Donald Trump’s ongoing conflict with localities that limit law-enforcement cooperation with immigration authorities.
Not specially trained in the sense of being humane, scrupulous, cautious, but in the sense of being extra violent.
The officers will be sent by Customs and Border Protection, the agency which houses Border Patrol, to aid in arrest operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Operations will take place in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Newark, New Jersey, according to The New York Times, which first reported the development.
Not Seattle. We’re a sanctuary city. Maybe they don’t like rain.
The officers being deployed include those assigned to specialized tactical teams within CBP, like the elite Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or BORTAC.
BORTAC agents have training similar to special forces personnel and often wield specialized equipment. They carry out high-risk security operations along the border, such as raiding drug stash houses or targeting individuals known to be violent.
In other words, they’re an invading army. Awesome.
The move to send the agents to aid ICE appears in part aimed at sending a message to immigrants in the 10 cities where operations are scheduled to take place and could escalate what are otherwise normal enforcement actions.
And the message is: “we hate you and want to unleash violence on you so that you will go away and never come back.”
The border agents will reportedly be used for backup on ICE operations and providing a show of force.
In case we’ve been coming across as a bunch of pacifist sissies.
Taking these units from the border is an inadvertent admission that their presence on the border is not actually necessary. Also, shouldn’t that name be BORPTAC?
Atlanta is not a sanctuary city. Trump did not get the welcome here that he expected back in November, all he did was cause gridlock for several hours when he was last here. It wasn’t because people were coming to see him. It was a sorry turnout, even though Atlanta is a very welcoming place. I wonder if that’s why the border patrol is being dispatched here. Keep your Gestapo away, we don’t need them. Try D.C., I hear there’s a real problem there, but stay the hell out of Atlanta., we don’t need that kind of help.
Well, they’re just being cautious. Water proved to be very effective against the Wicked Witch of the West.
It’s also an effective means of removing dirt.