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Nevilledog

(54,591 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 01:55 PM Saturday

This Isn't Crisis Response, It's Crisis Construction

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/opinion/ice-trump-safety-crisis.html

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Nearly nine months into President Trump’s second term, immigration enforcement has become the administration’s primary political weapon — not to solve problems, but to manufacture fear, provoke outrage and stage an illusion of control. This isn’t a crisis response. It’s crisis construction.

The president’s team vowed to target gang members, murderers and rapists, but we’re not just rounding up violent offenders. We’re arresting working parents, students, asylum seekers and even U.S. citizens, to create made-for-TV crackdowns.

I served as chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Joe Biden and spent over a decade working in homeland security. I knew that national security requires focusing on threats — not turning law enforcement into a spectacle. Despite President Trump’s promises to go after the “worst of the worst,” in the past few months the administration has deported a preschooler who is a U.S. citizen and who has stage 4 kidney cancer and his family. A raid on a Hyundai plant where South Korean nationals were rounded up triggered an international incident and threatened future investment in Georgia. Those scenes appear to be part of a deliberate strategy of political theater.

Over the next three years, detention space will be multiplied. Due process will likely be further sidelined. The broken legal immigration system won’t be fixed — it will be abandoned.

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This Isn't Crisis Response, It's Crisis Construction (Original Post) Nevilledog Saturday OP
Depressingly true. intheflow Saturday #1
K&R Solly Mack Saturday #2

intheflow

(29,797 posts)
1. Depressingly true.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 03:15 PM
Saturday

Would have been nice if they’d chosen to publish this kind of critique of the administration the second this shit started happening on January 20th under DOGE, but better late than never I suppose.

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