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You can argue for or against mass-deportation as a policy. Fine. But the tactics are a choice, and at every turn, the current administration is deliberately choosing cruelty, fear, intimidation, violence, opaqueness, and grief. In an alternate world, they could have still chosen to do mass-deportation, but also: 1. sent uniformed officers with arrest warrants, 2. who identify themselves clearly as officers, 3. who sh…
So the aesthetics are bad. The execution is sloppy and it’s likely the people tasked with it are under trained and under supervised. But the outcome is the same otherwise. I don’t know if they’re trying to be mean or if they’re just trying to effectively hit their goals. It’s ruthless execution but that’s what’s taught in business school today. The citizens that are being wrongly violated will have their day and be c…
We really don't have any assurance of this, and all evidence of how the current administration operates says that they will be treated just as sloppily and ruthlessly.
I don't buy the "undertrained/undersupervised" argument, either. If this were the case, we'd be seeing apologies for the mistakes by now, instead of silence and intimidation of media reporting on the "mistakes".