> deportation rates are much too low

“U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 238,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in fiscal year 2025” [1]. For 2012 to 2015, the chart shows about 360k, 420k, 480k and 330k, respectively.

That means ICE is spending $330 to 580 thousand dollars per additional Southwest border encounter in 2025 versus 2012. ($250 to 440 thousand if we average Obama’s second-term numbers.)

These numbers 10x even San Francisco’s circa 2016 homeless-industrial profligacy [2]. Unless ICE is a ball of wormy corruption, they’re clearly not focused on immigration enforcement.

If you prefer anecdotes, I live in Wyoming. Our farms are de facto exempt from enforcement. I believe in enforcing our immigration laws while we work to reform through the legislature. But that's clearly not what ICE is doing. The most-generous interpretation is they're making videos that make people who want enforcement feel good.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/icymi-illegal-cr...

[2] https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...

I've said for a while that ICE needs to go after businesses that hire illegal immigrants. So if you're looking for some kind of conflict in what I'm saying that isn't it.

That's why I said that ICE isn't doing enough.

It's kind of mind blowing people hate immigrants so much they are willing to burn their own country down to get rid of them.

I love immigrants lol. I just want immigrants that integrate and come into the country without breaking the law.

Why do you have so much hate for immigrants?

I'll tell you the same thing I told the other person:

I love immigrants lol. I just want immigrants that integrate and come into the country without breaking the law.

ICE is shooting bystanders in the face, blinding teenagers, and tear-gassing infants.

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

It's just nice to know what my neighbors are thinking

> No, actually to be frank, I'd rather the Nazis go back to hiding under the floorboards in fear of public retribution.

You're defaming me and spreading lies. Any actual Nazis can go fuck themselves.

I don’t like that these kinds of posts get flagged. If a post is praising ICE or Trump it should be highlighted and mocked, not flagged and deleted. People should see how batshit insane MAGA people are.