Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Based ICE field office now outfitting Haitian migrants with ankle monitors
If you can’t deport them, strap them with ankle monitors, as the axiom goes.
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Via Washington Post (emphasis added):
The Department of Homeland Security has begun summoning Haitian immigrants in Ohio to check-in appointments with federal officers who are outfitting them with ankle monitors, in what appears to be a new enforcement effort after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end their humanitarian protections.
Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said about 50 Haitians with temporary protected status in Springfield, Ohio, were called into Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices on Friday. Local attorneys said the immigrants were arrested and then conditionally released with electronic monitoring devices. They were instructed not to travel anywhere outside a 75-mile radius from their homes.
A Trump administration official confirmed the effort to call Haitians with temporary protected status into ICE offices, give them ankle monitors and release them. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal ICE operations, expected the check-ins to be scheduled in waves…
Advocates and immigration attorneys said the new arrests in Ohio reflect ICE’s attempts to more quietly carry out President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign*. Rather than large-scale operations like the ones DHS conducted in Minneapolis and Chicago, the agency has been focusing on arrests that take place after traffic stops and ICE check-ins. Arrests rose significantly in July.
*This is the kind of stuff the administration should’ve been doing from the start: making life as uncomfortable and untenable for illegal aliens as possible with the aim of, with enough pressure, forcing them to self-deport.
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Why the federal authorities haven’t, for instance, gone after the bank accounts and other financial tools that illegal aliens rely on is beyond explanation.
The legal environment is different in Canada, obviously, but I’m old enough to remember when Trudeau did that exact thing to truckers, actual citizens, protesting his draconian vax mandates, and got away with it.
That Haitians whose protective status has expired should have any constitutional rights in terms of, for example, the Fourth Amendment doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the general legal consensus is that they do, which obviously makes ICE’s job harder.Via Just Security (emphasis added):
In an internal memo made public through a whistleblower report, the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructed ICE officers that they are permitted to enter homes to conduct immigration arrests without judicial authorization. This instruction is not only a departure from longstanding Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, but also contrary to core Fourth Amendment rights that protect both citizens and noncitizens within the United States…
The Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure applies to citizens and noncitizens within the United States. The Supreme Court has famously stated that “physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed.” As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “When it comes to the Fourth Amendment, the home is first among equals.” In other words, the home receives the highest protection under the Fourth Amendment. Consistent with this principle, the Supreme Court has also said that to enter a home to conduct an arrest, the government must have an arrest warrant or qualify for certain narrow exceptions to the warrant requirement (such as an emergency involving a threat to life). The DHS memo treats I-205 administrative warrants as the functional equivalent of traditional criminal arrest warrants — which permit law enforcement to enter homes to make arrests — but these two warrants are very different from a Fourth Amendment perspective.
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In any event, legal or not, going neighborhood to neighborhood, house by house, with SWAT teams is resource-intensive and destined to result in the kind of shootings that happened in Minnesota.
Those kinds of shows of force might make for good social media clips to push out on the White House X account to entertain the base, but the ROI is minimal whereas the political cost is astronomical.
What you need to do is stuff like putting them all on ankle monitors and otherwise harassing them — anything that a federal judge/progressive activist can’t challenge — so as to render them unable to cope with the everyday inconveniences and, ultimately, eager to deport themselves.
