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That’s one way to push generally law abiding, tax paying people into the black market where they won’t pay taxes, and have a higher likelihood of dabbling in criminal enterprise.

behringer · 2m ago

Perfect way to fill up the for-profit prisons and get that unpaid workforce that will replace all the migrants.

delusional · 1m ago

Republicans would argue they are already dabbling in "criminal enterprise" by having trouble with ICE. You might then argue that "but they haven't been convicted" which is true, but you also know the republicans don't agree with that either.

jeffbee · 2m ago

Honestly why are any of us paying taxes? The probability of future IRS enforcement has never been lower than it is right now.

xnx · 2m ago

Worth reminding that the ICE budget is expanding to $28 billion. This is bigger than the budget of the FBI and DEA combined.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/ice-expansion...

duxup · 23m ago

ICE just seems to be a setup for "federal personal thugs".

We've seen them now threatening not just American citizens, other politicians, judges. ICE has been given instructions to simply go operate on their own without direction to "find" people.

The laws surroundings them are surprisingly forgiving / people have few protections. This step seems to just be to dump vast quantities of data they could just for anything they wish from departments that had rules for how they can use that data ... to a group that has few rules ...

sneak · 3m ago

They regularly imprison people for days, weeks, or months without trial that they know are US citizens.

wnevets · 10m ago

Is this why Elon killed the free direct tax filing?

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