Summary
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding details on plans to implement President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation program.
The lawsuit follows ICE’s failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in August.
The ACLU seeks information on ICE’s chartered flights, transportation contracts, and facilities potentially used for deportations.
Trump has vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and plans to declare a national emergency to activate military resources.
Advocates warn the program could devastate immigrant communities. Investigations are ongoing.
And this is where he’s got the ACLU beat… he doesn’t actually have any plans except to write a scary sounding executive order on day one an assume Steven Miller will come up with a real plan.
And ICE right now doesn’t take orders from Trump… They take orders from that other guy. The ACLU knows this because they understand constitutional law. They’re not looking for the concrete deportation plans; they want general background on what the infrastructure looks like, so they can file challenges with the correct factual details quickly if shit does kick off.
For example, if they get the tail numbers on all the planes they can track them in flightaware or in a worse case by recruiting spotters. If they want to file a lawsuit, they’re gonna need to know some details about who got sent where and when.
And, it’s also more likely that the Biden administration will cooperate giving them the information they’d need to take legal action under Trump.
Biden does not control ICE, it’s a rogue agency that he was too pathetic to pull the plug on.
I think they’re setting this up to be a whole bunch of nothing. Their current plan is to just tell the states to deport everyone. States don’t do shit on behalf of the federal government for free. If the fed doesn’t pay, the states say no way. So a few red states will deport some people but then he’ll go start to blaming dem states for cock blocking him.
Don’t get me wrong, this will destroy the lives of thousands of people and be a stain on our nation. But no way they’re deporting 20,000,000.
Plans? This moron has never had a plan in his life. He flies by the seat of his soiled diaper.
How would suing the ICE right now help? Trump isn’t in office yet so why would they have the plans.
So best case scenario is we find out how he’s doing it. So what? What will they do to stop it?
Well what else do you want the ACLU to do? They’re doing what they can
It’s just stupid news. It adds nothing to the conversation and they talk it up as if it will change something. I get what they do, but nothing short of widespread resistance will change it. A week long nationwide work stoppage would do it
A week long nationwide work stoppage would do it
That’s actually true. The groups with voices should call for that
