The Trump administration mobilized troops to Los Angeles in response to anti-ICE protests earlier this month

The Defense Department has mobilized 700 troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.

These troops will “not participate in law enforcement activities” but will “provide logistical support, and conduct administrative and clerical functions,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. The troops were deployed last week, Parnell said.

The three states have seen several large-scale ICE raids since Trump took office in January and implemented his hardline anti-immigration agenda, promising to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.”

  • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m really wondering what the real reason is behind the anti-immigrant actions. Sure, racism is part of it, but there has to be a money aspect for somebody because of all the extra business.

    This is generating a ton of jobs in louisiana, which is basically the last slave state as-is with how their prisons are run anyway.

      • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        I have assumed they want downward pressure on labor costs but by removing labor you just raise the cost of it. Supply vs demand… cut off the supply and the demand peaks.

        Raise the labor cost on manufacturing, food, landscaping, etc and you just raise prices for everybody, more runaway inflation happens and the US competes even less with the rest of the world.

        Just doesn’t add up to me. Maybe for billionaires the math works out in their favor though.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          22 hours ago

          But not all labor is getting removed, and they won’t really try to do so. Deportations are basically at the same level as they were under Biden iirc, the difference is that we now have spectacle in our media.

          It’s fundamentally just terrorism.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      The private prison executives had a leaked meeting where they celebrate Trump’s victory.

      Fun fact, the USA still practices slavery by making prisoners exempt from the 13th Amendment which in all other cases abolished slavery. A lot of industry is constructed by convicts for cheap cheap.