How effective will those ICE raids targeting people with final deportation orders be? [View all]

[MineralMan]

Probably not very. The targeted individuals know that such orders exist and that raids are planned, so most of them will probably not be in the places ICE looks. Most of them haven't been in those places for some time. What does that mean?

What it will probably mean is that a bunch of people who are not named in final deportation orders will be arrested by the ICE officers for other reasons. Many of them will find themselves on the other side of the border without any chance to defend themselves.

Then, Trump will brag about all the people who got deported and we'll know nothing about who they were or the supposed reasons for their deportation.

Worse, there will no doubt be U.S. Citizens swept up in these raids and summarily deported without papers that prove their U.S. citizenship, making it very difficult for them to return to this country. That also happens a lot, and we usually know nothing about it.

Deportation statistics - that's what Trump is after, and the ICE agents will gladly help provide numbers for him to crow about.

That's the unreported truth of what ICE will be doing in these raids. They will go to the addresses on the Deportation orders. Good luck to the people at those addresses. They are at high risk of improper arrest and summary deportation. And we won't hear about their cases. We'll only hear Trump bragging about how effective the raids were.

Meanwhile, the people actually named in final deportation orders won't be where the orders say they are. They've moved on to other locations.