I guess NPR hasn’t given in entirely. Yet.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but trump never once said he’d only go after immigrants with criminal records. He was always going to go for all of them.
The current administration’s mass deportation dragnet isn’t about law and order—it’s about manufacturing a crisis to distract from their own incompetence. Targeting non-criminal immigrants under the guise of “protecting jobs” is just political theater, a way to rally the base with performative cruelty while ignoring systemic rot.
This isn’t enforcement. It’s state-sanctioned scapegoating, trading human dignity for cheap applause from nativists who’ve never met an ICE form in their lives. The irony? The same politicians crying about “illegals” rely on undocumented labor to mow their lawns and build their hotels.
The real crime here isn’t crossing a line on a map. It’s the moral bankruptcy of a system that criminalizes desperation while shrugging at wage theft and worker exploitation. But sure, let’s blame the people cleaning office buildings at midnight instead of the oligarchs hoarding wealth like dragons.
If you’re a Migrant and you’re NOT RICH then youre a CRIMINAL! And if you ARE rich you’re allowed to fire TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE despite being an Illegal Immigrant!
If any you know people in SoCal, the LA County Bar Association says ICE is going to start knock at door raids Feb 23rd.
Edir: accuracy
“They know exactly who they are looking for, they know pretty much where to find them,” Homan said, referring to immigrants who were in the country illegally and who have committed a crime.
This is something that Marian [one of the migrants detained on false premises] was on board with.
“I’ve always said, we might be from the same country, but we are 100 percent in agreement that if someone harms someone that person should leave,” Marian said in Spanish. “But I never made that comment thinking it could happen to me and my family.”
They do now….
Most likely not. The vast majority of undocumented persons entered the country legally and simply remain after that authorization expired, which isn’t a crime.
Entering without permission re-entering after being denied permission are crimes, but in the majority of cases, including the first example in the article, people are allowed in freely.