b: participated in by or affecting a large number of individuals
c: having a large-scale character
At 60 days the promised "mass deportations" have not occurred.
What has occurred has been symbolic and shambolic deportations of: 1.) men with tattoos, 2.) random pro-Palestinian activists, 3.) and random others reentering the US at border crossings.
Governors in some red states have signaled that they are ready and able to assist federal agencies with locating and detaining immigrants for deportation. And yet in two states with which I am familiar nothing has happened yet. Florida with 1.2 million informal immigrants the houses get built and roofed, the guest facilities and offices get cleaned, the lawns are mowed, and field work continues to be done. In Nebraska with 78,000 informal immigrants the beef packing goes on and farms and ranches are operating.
It seems to me that if this is an emergency not much is actually happening on the ground.
There's plenty of footage of things happening but that looks more like propaganda designed to make people think something is happening.
BUT the most telling thing to me is that the investigation of employers isn't happening. There are plenty of statutes making the hiring of informal workers either a civil or criminal offense. Reality is that if employers stopped hiring informal immigrant workers the number of them would quickly dissipate. It is the magnate drawing those workers here. BUT that would be a cataclysmic event for the businesses who are actually dependent on those workers and for the economies where they live.
Instead the feds and states are choosing cruelty signalling and performative actions to make the appearance of a serious effort while in the main just accepting the economic reality that we can't live without them.
It reminds me so much of the "Beautiful wall---paid for by Mexico."
Webster says: mass----adjective
a: of or relating to the mass of the people
b: participated in by or affecting a large number of individuals
c: having a large-scale character
At 60 days the promised "mass deportations" have not occurred.
What has occurred has been symbolic and shambolic deportations of: 1.) men with tattoos, 2.) random pro-Palestinian activists, 3.) and random others reentering the US at border crossings.
Governors in some red states have signaled that they are ready and able to assist federal agencies with locating and detaining immigrants for deportation. And yet in two states with which I am familiar nothing has happened yet. Florida with 1.2 million informal immigrants the houses get built and roofed, the guest facilities and offices get cleaned, the lawns are mowed, and field work continues to be done. In Nebraska with 78,000 informal immigrants the beef packing goes on and farms and ranches are operating.
It seems to me that if this is an emergency not much is actually happening on the ground.
There's plenty of footage of things happening but that looks more like propaganda designed to make people think something is happening.
BUT the most telling thing to me is that the investigation of employers isn't happening. There are plenty of statutes making the hiring of informal workers either a civil or criminal offense. Reality is that if employers stopped hiring informal immigrant workers the number of them would quickly dissipate. It is the magnate drawing those workers here. BUT that would be a cataclysmic event for the businesses who are actually dependent on those workers and for the economies where they live.
Instead the feds and states are choosing cruelty signalling and performative actions to make the appearance of a serious effort while in the main just accepting the economic reality that we can't live without them.
It reminds me so much of the "Beautiful wall---paid for by Mexico."