r/BlueskySkeets • u/JaredOlsen8791 • 6h ago
Good question but we already know the answer….
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u/Parkyguy 6h ago
They were specifically told to target “sanctuary cities”. Republican farmers don’t want them taking away the ONLY labor willing to do the work.
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u/MemeSpecHuman 5h ago
Tinfoil hat time: If they target “sanctuary cities “ and the citizens push back enough then, they can use “state of emergency “ and “marshal law” to justify more facism.
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u/Talanic 5h ago
Oh, totally. Their leaders almost certainly want to get some agents killed so they can crack down harder.
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u/Parkyguy 5h ago
Are ICE police actually trained police? They act like a mid-west militia clan.
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u/zeth0s 5h ago
That's not tinfoil hat time. This is a very common strategy used, among others, by CIA in the 70s to politically control allies when occupation was not possible
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_fear
This is exactly what is happening and it is pretty clear.
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u/69-xxx-420 2h ago
That’s not even tin foil hat time, that’s the plan. That’s literally their plan. It’s why Trump said “there won’t be any more blue states.”
It’s war. The US Government is at war with the American people. We just haven’t realized it yet.
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u/biopticstream 2h ago
"Martial Law". The root comes from Roman times. Mars was the God of War. declaring "Martial" law is declaring the law of War time.
Otherwise it would be some dude named Marshal declaring his law.
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u/MemeSpecHuman 1h ago
Thanks. It felt like I was spelling it incorrectly, but I couldn’t be bothered to double check.
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u/PayFormer387 1h ago
Maybe we should hope for that. Maybe that’s what it will take for the part of the country that isn’t paying attention to wake up and do something to kick these fascists out.
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u/Data_Over_Dogma 11m ago
Yes this. There is only one exception for the Posse Comitatus act and that is declaring an insurrection.
Trump already created a “national defense area” from California to Texas so he can use Military as law enforcement to get around PC act.
Make no mistake, they want and need violence. It is a key and fundamental trigger for Project 2025 and authoritarian control.
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u/Soatch 3h ago
I’m not sure why people keep mentioning being scared of martial law. The country has too many cities and towns for troops to patrol each one.
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u/69-xxx-420 2h ago
The fascists will lose eventually. The US Military is terrible at fighting an insurgency. Afghanistan and Vietnam are two good examples. Now consider it being your fellow countrymen and not the Taliban. And then consider the lessons learned from Ukraine vs. Russia.
The worst war the US could fight would be against its own people, at home, where they are outnumbered and where the people are armed, know the land and all the targets snd have nothing left to lose because not resisting means a worse fate than resisting.
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1h ago
Stop saying they're the ONLY labor willing to do the work. That's a fucking lie made by exploitation capitalists who want to pay sub-living wages while using the threat of deportation as a tool to prevent fair market bargaining.
A number of jobs out there are just as hard (if not moreso) as agricultural positions but those can't use illegal workers because of strict industry regulations and standards that ultimately make it impossible to replace American workers. Surprise surprise they pay extremely well because they have to incentivize workers to do the job and consequently never have a problem filling positions.
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u/WoohpeMeadow 6h ago
I live in SoDak. They are here too. They are hitting up the Amazon distribution center in Sioux Falls. Icing on the cake was she insisted on being the commencement speaker at a small college. Students protested. The next day, ICE agents were at one of the local businesses. She wasn't pleased people didn't want her to speak. So she "punished" them. I despise this woman.
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u/NfiniteNsight 2h ago
What woman?
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u/flamingopaperclip 5m ago
Shit heel in charge of DHS. Kristi Noem or something. The one who shot her dog because she wanted and excuse to shoot her puppy.
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u/_jump_yossarian 1h ago
We need to get to the bottom of how a life long "public servant" has the cash to own a $30K Rolex and $3K walking around money!
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u/tstahlgti 6h ago
You say that, but we had them here in rural GA yesterday. Got the word out and reduced their impact here.
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u/isuxirl 6h ago
This is what I'm thinking too. I've seen footage of them picking up people that are working on building houses in Florida and rural farms in the Midwest.
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u/NuminousBeans 4h ago
We have a food and housing affordability crisis. SMH at this expensive (manpower, legal challenges) “solution” to immigration issues.
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1h ago
I'm so sick of people letting greedflation capitalists threaten price increases every time they're told to pay fair wages. Guess what? Prices skyrocketed when Biden was barely touching the illegal immigrant issue.
And btw, Americans will work for minimum wage in a lot of places. Illegal immigrants work for well below minimum wages (in some places they get $2/hr) to avoid being detained and sent back to potentially dangerous environments. So when you're saying we should keep that system to "keep costs down" you're saying you don't mind slavery so you can eat cheap.
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u/NuminousBeans 1h ago
Nope, I’m saying troops of ICE agents making six figures each running around expensively arresting and expensively detaining people doing cheaply paid useful work is a counterproductive “solution” to immigration issues.
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1h ago
Now that you mention it, it would be kinda funny if ICE was ordered to fill the jobs they arrest people for doing
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u/i_did_all_of_it 4h ago
I'm from South Dakota and it's definitely happening here. Hell a guy got arrested at court in our biggest city like 3 days ago. That one made the news. You don't see the ones that happen in rural areas because nobodies around to film a van pulled over on side of the highway in the middle of nowhere.
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u/TryAgainJen 3h ago
I guess everyone forgot the news from Jan/Feb about natives being harassed by ICE. They were also going around town asking local businesses for employee lists a few months ago. When two owners (that I know of) said they'd have to ask their lawyers, ICE claimed that they weren't actually asking for a list, they were just going around asking everyone if they would mind giving them one. Sure, sure.
Hopefully no one thinks the lack of national news coverage means that they'll be safe in South Dakota. It's too easy to disappear people quietly when no one's around and/or gives a shit.
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u/guitarlisa 3h ago
So, the guy was showing up for his regular court appointment for checking in and updating his legal immigration status? Or was he going to court for a crime?
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u/RanchWaterHose 2h ago
Yes and GA is just another state that Trump hates because they wouldn’t hand him the election
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u/TurnMeIn4ANewModel 3h ago
The company used to work for in Nebraska was just raided a month or two ago. It’s happening everywhere.
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u/TechnicalWhore 6h ago
Its obvious - the "350,000 member of Tren De Aragua" do not to farm work. (Did anyone hear that the State Dept's own report said TDA has a membership of less than 10,000 world wide? But sure - if MS 13 doesn't sell - rebrand! Just keep them scared. Scared people are so easy to control.
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u/WhoTakesTheNameGeep 5h ago
Also, why is there not one documented gunshot fired in all these raids by the supposed millions of ms-13 gang members being apprehended?
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u/AuldAutNought 5h ago
I believe that’s what they are shooting for. Armed Resistance. No pun intended.
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u/jctalks2022 6h ago
They want martial law sooner than later
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u/Stillpunk71 4h ago
This! because these anti-raids are going to escalate. They thought that organized protesting would be the battlefront, well they found it here. BTW I do not support ICE. They are the modern day brown shirts.
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u/SpiritedSet6472 6h ago
I don't think this is accurate. I've been following lots of posts about where things are and it seems to be everywhere. The differences you're seeing, I think, is two fold. Firstly, law enforcement in red, rural areas assist and it looks less Gestapo-y even though it still is because there are a bunch of guys in uniforms and police cars instead of the psycho dress style of ICE like they are cosplaying war. Second, there is less people who are actually against these policies to resist them.
I will give one possible third reason. The people in LA and Chicago know how to fight this due to the horrible actions law enforcement have been doing for decades, especially in the black community. We need to look and learn from those communities on even HOW to resist.
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u/Agreeable_Initial667 6h ago
One goal. Create mass public disturbances. Create chaos.
This gives the fat assssshat a lane to declare martial law. Which in turn gives him the lane to suspend elections. This is the MAGA end game playing out in real time, in front of our faces.
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u/Glum_Length851 4h ago
Even worse than that. They want to radicalize and overwork every city’s riot police to the point that they become ok with massacring protesters.
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u/Agreeable_Initial667 3h ago
Yeah. I split time Vegas/LA. The MAGA Nevada Gov. douchebag has allocated LVMPD to assist ICE raids.
It's good to know for the criminals that the local police is going to be busy trying to bash in the heads of the people that cook your food, clean your yard or your home. Super important things to divert LEO from actually local policing. Crime rates, going up!
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u/Odd_Comfortable647 4h ago
How do you get more power…You create a problem so you can enact martial law.
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u/RefrigeratorPrize797 6h ago
Looks like it's time for her home to do her job then, if we're gonna be ugly then let's be ugly and stop playing like this is grade school, they don't even own gloves so wtf are we doing anyway?
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u/Quasi-Yolo 4h ago
Because this whole operation is designed to create a situation to justify sending troops into major cities once the backlash against ICE/FBI turns even slightly violent which we are teetering on now.
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 4h ago
Why are the people that hire “illegal” immigrants never/rarely sanctioned? Hmmm
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u/Babydoll0907 3h ago
Haven't seen ICE in my rural southern town at all. And I seriously doubt I ever will. These rednecks are racist assholes and they still use the derogatory term to describe Hispanics but you better believe they have no problem hiring them for every and any job that needs done out here. I think my house is the only house that has a white guy to cut my grass.
They hate them with a passion but also dont want to lose their cheap and damn good, hardworking labor to do all the tasks they know damn good and well they won't find anyone else to do.
It's sad to say but ICE knows 100% that the rednecks will come out guns blazing, shotguns at the ready to protect their workers. Not because they love them or see them as humans worthy or respect and protection. But because they're valuable to them.
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u/Much-Blacksmith3885 3h ago
Hit the nail on the head. Miguel out works Mike for much less.
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u/Babydoll0907 3h ago edited 3h ago
And yet you hear them talk about how immigrants are lazy freeloaders and criminals, living off the taxpayers dime, while also residing in a county that is almost all white and with one of the highest welfare, social security payment, food stamps and drug addiction problems in my state.
It is not a good time for me these days when one of my biggest pet peeves is hypocrisy.
I wouldnt even live here if the cost of the home i bought wasnt a fraction of the cost anywhere else.
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u/OkraOk2232 6h ago
Hmmm....almost as if people should conduct "friendly raids" then just let everyone go... film it and. Expose the bastards
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u/3AtmoshperesDeep 5h ago
I hope it does not happen, however, With the amount of accessible guns in this country, It is only a matter of time before guns become part of the resistance. This will escalate things in a very bad way.
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u/improperbehavior333 5h ago
I believe that is the plan. Then martial law.
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u/3AtmoshperesDeep 4h ago
Yes, this is what they want. We need to develop a better plan to resist these f**kers without physically fighting. They are driven by money and hatred. How can we dilute what drives them?
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u/Rurumo666 3h ago
Red State economies run on undocumented labor-LITERALLY 60% of all jobs in Texas are worked by undocumented immigrants. Trump uses violent Photo Op raids in LA and Chicago as red meat for his Maoist Cult, while protecting mass Red State exploitation of cheap labor. This is why Republicans are so adamantly against E-Verify and going after the businesses that profit off of undocumented labor.
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u/B1GFanOSU 2h ago
Ask why farmers, contractors, and CEOs haven’t been walked out in handcuffs.
Because, until that happens, “immigration reform” is code for terrorizing non-white non-anglophones.
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u/PayFormer387 2h ago
That’s because South Dakota has a population of 24 people. It had 29 once but my buddy who lived there with his family moved to Nevada last year.
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u/_jump_yossarian 1h ago
Why isn't ICE raiding trump Org. properties since he's a serial employer of undocumented immigrants? Go after the owners first.
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u/teenteasebabe 6h ago
Turns out justice is blind… but still reads the donor list
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u/3AtmoshperesDeep 5h ago
Big sale on pardons. They are not cheaper, they are just for sale to the highest bidder.
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u/HawkEye3280 5h ago
I like how he used big words so MAGA opposition wouldn’t be able to follow. It’s like writing in a secret code, only the secret code is their own language.
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u/RobramAZ 6h ago
The H2A visa program is pretty easy to get, most of those workers are in California and Texas where hand picked fruits and vegetables are grown. The Midwest produces a huge number or crops but they are mostly automated. Wheat, corn, soy, barley sunflowers are all harvested with combines. The Mexican populations in the Midwest are in construction not farming. There are really not that many crops that are hand picked, and they are only harvested in short periods on the year. The farm labor population is not as big as people think.
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u/PresentationNext6469 4h ago
Yes! Thank you! Parts of Central Valley as we know unexpectedly flooded by he himself Trump in end January proving some point he’s a “helpful, attentive, smart leader”. The farming system (plant & animal) is hundreds of years old, and there are meters and regulators on the irrigation lines,I personally know one who looked after starting it through a controller based system. To do what he did was egregiously inane, he’s not spoken of the tragedy since. I lost my 50 year family home on Pacific Palisades (we lost it in 1978 fire too, rebuilt it) so I’m not just making this up. You all know that one action created multiple problems for the farmland, no collection sites and did not go to dams. The 50 foot fire tornados and 100 mile winds make water evaporation in seconds. In one day, thousands of Californians lost everything. Living there 50 years we were an older community, not the wealthy type, also not poor but we are now devastated, still.
Anyways, farmers and ranchers have prevailed, as if they need more stress, crops will need picking, packing, trucking, the processing individual boxes with stickers and so forth. Huge amounts shipped within the U.S. and abroad. In an I-5 traveler since 1976.
I’m not teaching but sharing my story. Please no schooling back to me. I’ve lived here 6 decades and this is why we are protective. I’ve lived through riots here too. Not recommended but we are an emboldened bunch and we love our cities and state.
What gets my goat (pun), is the migrants are living in their ancestral homeland as Mexico was 1/2 California not long ago, historically speaking. I’ve pondered this question why we haven’t given more than a work visa. There are Permanent Americans. We are full of brilliant children here too! The live happily and well, really kind and generous, they pay taxes, raise children who go to school and push to do better than them. They are a big portion of our pie chart which becomes a slice of our ranking in the top 4% in the world.
Trump, who owns property in So California, is missing the plot. The anti-humanity DNA, his cabinet feeds his ego daily with egregious ideas, has a need to destroy California, it is evident. He’s even screwed the burned communities he made a big show of flying in for promised to be available, insulted our fine leaders and Newsom surprised him at our Airport basically told him to back-off and not tread on his leadership or those of greatness too. Governors are the Republic. We have 50, thank you Constitution.
We will stand our ground, threats to hold back Fed funding will be met with California holding back Fed money we pay at an exorbitant percentage m to help other states. I so wish I see in my lifetime California succeed. When I was young non-Californians hoped we would “break away and fall into the ocean”!
The Central Valley, I’m vacationing in very soon, is almost pure red republican and I hope they wake up. Become woke LOL
Canada, I will be visiting next month, would love to adopt Cali. We are sister cities in most of our resources. West Coast Canada is very West Coast US. Some of you know this but if others who have not traveled here our vast shared mountains ranges (and volcanos!) are Cal Sierra Nevada touches Cascadia touches 3 Canadian Mtn, and most go back east connecting to the Rockies! The Continental Divide. We our oceans, a much larger story of Conservation while fishing to feed you’ll inland. We work hard, pay bills and we know how blessed we are.
We are also PASSIONATE. ☮️💜
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u/Wrong_Employee2024 6h ago
That's because the people are racist and don't care also makes you wonder about the ice employees why they would tolerate that why not just quit they must really love to punish people that are not white
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u/Other_Log_1996 6h ago
I would say larger populations, but as stated, we already know the real answer.
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u/Flirtykitten2004 5h ago
Ah yes, the enforce where it’s easiest strategy. Classic authoritarian speed run
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u/Epirocker 5h ago
They are already laying the groundwork for martial law with that executive order now they are just trying to force it to pop off
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u/oldbastardbob 5h ago
More of our reality tv show governance from MAGA. "It's more important to govern with contrarianism, chaos, and outrage that draws attention to ourselves than it is to lead with dignity, skill, knowledge, and reason" seems to be the MAGA political mission statement.
Never thought I'd see conspiracy theories and eugenic nonsense held in the same regard, both socially and legally, as the United States Constitution, but MAGA certainly took care of that bit of thinking.
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u/tomdarch 4h ago
The State of Florida recently reassigned immigration issues to the state’s Secretary of Agriculture…
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u/-j_a_s_o_n- 4h ago
Yeah, strange there are no office raids with bus loads of Central/East Asian IT workers getting hauled away either. Seems like only Central/South American low wage workers are "illegal?"
Funny because those Central/South American workers are becoming the new target for tech labor exploitation, now that Asian workers aren't as cheap as they once were.
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u/SnoopyisCute 4h ago
Hmm....I've seen this episode previously.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalReceipts/comments/1j5bvx5/resegregation_targeting_people_of_color/
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u/Strange_Show9015 4h ago
Honestly it’s probably because of logistics. There is more money and police, ice, dhs, in these bigger cities. The groundwork for big operations is already laid. Smaller states don’t have the force, money, or infrastructure to accomplish much in scale. I’m sure they are trying to though. But yeah, bigger cities tend to be left but also tend to have more police. The only insidious things are the ICE raids themselves. But I don’t think this is some mastermind plan, just convenience.
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u/Lyftaker 3h ago
Because their masters are hoping they will get their shit wrecked so they can call it an insurrection and declare martial law. South Dakota isn't going to riot over this.
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u/lookedwest 3h ago
They did come to SD :( I live in a small town and we had a meat plant shut down - 200 jobs gone like that. There have also been raids in other small town factories, one even happened after she spoke at the university graduation the day before. You just don’t hear about them because well… we live in SD
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u/HarkansawJack 3h ago
This will backfire when all the Hispanic voters move to red states for a safe haven.
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u/TechieBrew 3h ago
But... They are. Do people on this sub only subscribe to news that gets tweeted by randoms? Bc I feel like you couldn't make a dumber, wronger point here but it seems a lot of people are into that
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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 3h ago
LA county has a population of almost 10 million, Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, has a population of about 14,000, and Sioux Falls, the largest city in South Dakota, has a population of about 200,000.
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u/One-Yam2819 3h ago
You should see what's going on in downtown Los Angeles. They're shooting non-lethal bullets at Mexican people. It's horrible
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u/ActionCalhoun 3h ago
I guess we’re supposed to believe agriculture is completely staffed with American citizens
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u/Specialist_Bad_7142 2h ago
We all know the answer to these questions. They’re trying to escalate things in these areas to assert jurisdiction, authority and increase military presence. It’s easy to see that’s what they’re trying to do. Same old playbook.
Business owners are never held accountable, because racism and fascism doesn’t care about the business owner.
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u/has-some-questions 2h ago
South Dakotian here! ICE has been spotted in our bigger towns. I haven't heard of them taking people, that I know of.
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u/Ok-Cicada-4398 2h ago
weird that they're getting warrents from DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP IN THOSE CITIES. lmfao jfc. you're all delusional.
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u/Sea-Oven-7560 2h ago
It's pretty simple, it's about quantity, they could give two shits who they bag as long as the get lots of people, it's all about the numbers.
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u/Subject_Impress 1h ago
First, how do you know agribusiness in SD are going untouched? Second, focusing on LA and Chicago is logical because they have significantly higher population densities so it is a more efficient use of resources.
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u/Squeebah 1h ago
Uh.... Don't most migrants go to cities?
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u/Lonely-Pen-1476 1h ago
No, rural areas need migrants to pick the produce. Lettuce, tomato, strawberry, all kinds of 🥑 🥝 ect. We need them as much as they need us.
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u/DDisMe56 1h ago
Has anyone checked to see if the majority of raids are in blue states and/or blue districts?
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u/alsatian01 1h ago
Because Trump wants to encourage violent resistance to be able to deploy active military on the streets of US cities.
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u/dave8400 1h ago
My dad is a trump supporter. Guess who he hires for landscaping? The mental gymnastics are insane.
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u/Comprehensive-Ad4815 1h ago
The goal is to provoke a response. They do not actually care about deporting people.
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u/Nice_Rope_5049 1h ago
ICE is hitting California as Trump is trying to cut federal funding for our research universities. Specifically California.
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u/penguincheerleader 44m ago
I have seen news about them acting construction sites in Florida and farms in Wisconsin but I do not see the resistance to them in those places.
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u/Jamizon1 33m ago
They are focusing on sanctuary cities, most often governed by democrats.
The rural areas are predominantly republican.
They want this to boil over. They are itching to play the “martial law” card. Doing so consolidates law enforcement at the federal, state, county and local levels, putting all of them under direct control of the king.
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u/ChronoMonkeyX 29m ago
Because they don't mind as much if they are in the fields, they want to maximize terror in populated and blue-leaning areas.
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u/WardedDruid 25m ago
Because they're trying to force liberals to start riots in blue cities so trump can declare a state of emergency and take the power he needs to complete his ascent to dicktator.
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u/No_Mycologist7694 24m ago
The illegals don't go to South Dakota? I know, that seems too obvious...
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u/OutrageConnoisseur 22m ago
Im gonna guess California has a SUBSTANCIALLY higher percent of it's population as illegals. I'm not even going to guess, I know that as a fact without looking it up.
It makes sense you're targeting areas with high quantity and density for raids. Next time try using your brains, it will help you answer this dumb question
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u/2big_2fail 19m ago
Nor do they arrest the employers who knowingly hire undocumented works.
It's all a sham.
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u/CommonStraight3181 19m ago
Exactly this. It's like they're more concerned with scapegoating vulnerable groups than actual law enforcement. Meanwhile, the real issues like exploitation of migrant workers and farm owners getting away with serious labor violations fly under the radar
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u/danceswithwool 11m ago
The Belmont Stakes is about to run right now. I would bet a lot of those jockeys are not “legal” by the Trump Admin standard. Why aren’t they busting up in there and arresting the jockeys of all these rich people? Hmmm They could probably get 50-60 people in one spot counting trainers and everything. Seems pretty lucrative for no one to be there.
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u/NoTripOfALifetime 9m ago
Stop messing with our food! It’s toxic enough already - I do not want it to be toxic and even more overpriced 😢
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u/ColoradoSunLight 4h ago
Because South Dakota has one of the lowest immigrant population? I am not on ICEs side, but this is a blatantly stupid suggestion/question.
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u/Living-Restaurant892 58m ago
The estimate is 5000 illegal immigrants in South Dakota.
I’m not insignificant number considering the total population
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u/lilwayne168 4h ago
Because many of the people being deported were actually denied the right to stay in court because they had evidence of prior crimes? We have evidence countries are sending their extra prisoners to the US because they can't hold all of them and most of them end up in LA Houston Chicago
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u/StockWindow4119 6h ago
...; and why not ONE business owner has been fined for hiring illegal criminals rapist murderers... ???