Texas Gets Trampled by Trump’s DHS
Texas is getting what it voted for with Trump good and hard with ICE murdering a Houston man in cold blood and bazillion dollar border walls threatening to mar the Big Bend.
Texas is getting what it voted for with Trump good and hard with ICE murdering a Houston man in cold blood and bazillion dollar border walls threatening to mar the Big Bend.
Note: I’m traveling so this post was written early Monday and might be a bit out of date.
Let’s start with the big picture view of the DHS — the villain of the first half of today’s post.
Even Under New Management ICE Keeps Killing
DHS and ICE might be under new management with the removal of “ICE Barbie” Kristi Noem by former MMA fighter turned US Senator from Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin, but their bloody handiwork continues.
Yea, it’s great that Noem’s personal gigalo (seriously watch Noem filibuster when asked directly if she’d had sex with Lewandowski at a Congressional hearing) senior aide and unofficial DHS uber-consultant Corey Lewandowski is not only out, but under investigation for improperly awarding contracts at an agency where he was never officially employed (although that didn’t stop him from personally firing the head of FEMA).
And it’s nice that Nazi larping Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino lost his job.
And I guess it’s even bueno that the grim sex farce that was Noem’s marriage is being put out of its misery, but is it really a good thing that Per Politico, Mullin has delivered on his promise of a “more discreet” Department of Homeland Security:
While the Department of Homeland Security continues to deport large numbers of unauthorized immigrants, it is making fewer arrests in public, holding back from deploying fresh waves of immigration agents to hotspots and has scrapped a plan to expand mega-warehouse detention facilities.
It’s all with the aim of fulfilling the president’s pledge for large-scale deportations — without attracting the kind of public attention that ignited widespread protests.
“It’s by design,” said one person familiar with strategic discussions within DHS, who like others was granted anonymity to speak freely about the conversations inside its agencies. “Just like Mullin and [acting ICE chief David] Venturella want — quieter and smarter operations. Finally.”
And how are those “quieter and smarter” operations working out for people in Houston, Texas?
Read the rest at Naked Capitalism.
