ICE raids across major US cities fall short of expectations but fear remains

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

President Donald Trump’s vow to launch a nationwide deportation sweep fell short of expectations on Sunday, with only a small number of operations that appeared to fall closer in line with routine enforcement.

While the effort seems to have been downgraded -- or perhaps just delayed -- immigrant communities across the U.S. were still on red alert.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA, in Los Angeles told ABC News' Clayton Sandell that most of the calls the organization has received are people inquiring about their legal rights and that most reports of ICE vans in the city turned out to be unfounded.

The fear though among many undocumented immigrants is that the Trump administration has merely delayed the raids, which could happen Monday when people return to work.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-raids-across-major-us-cities-fall-short-of-expectations-but-fear-remains/ar-AAEjGKa?li=BBnb7Kz

[Dem Dean]

1. Fear was the Objective

Republicans have been living off it for three decades now.

[sakabatou]

3. Yes, and Republicans have been using fear for decades

[SunSeeker]

4. Yep. nt

[bronxiteforever]

5. +1

[iluvtennis]

8. +2

[Budgies Revenge]

10. I agree that fear is one objective

But I've been thinking about these announced raids and wondering if the objective--this time around--was to serve as a sort of trial run. What's to stop them from announcing another series of raids closer to the election, possibly in swing districts?

We've already seen that ICE and many of their allies in local law enforcement aren't particularly concerned about whether or not they sweep up undocumented immigrants or citizens. If they manage to depress turnout among minorities just enough, either by physically detaining them long enough to keep them from voting or by intimidating them enough to keep them from going to the polling station in the first place, what could actually be done about it?

I hope this is just a kooky theory I've come up with, but as horrifying as this whole sad excuse of an administration is....I worry.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. That was the Idea of these raids.

Change the News Narrative after Heir Pence's failed attempt to prove the Concentration Camps was someone else's fault.

You just know there will be more raids in the coming days.

This is the Republicans Reelection Campaign Center piece.

[pbmus]

7. Bingo...brown people are dangerous and cages are necessary

And

[proActivist]

6. Red meat and fear:

And another dotard fail.

[pecosbob]

9. A post I made last week:

Seems to me they were more interested in making the threat than actually carrying out all the deportations. They now know they've created a shit-storm because they never really had a plan to execute the move. Typical GOP. It's always been a dog whistle for the knuckle draggers and TMS drones.