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As of 2021The total number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. is estimated to be 10.5 million.
Highest Populations:
California: 1.9 million
Texas: 1.6 million
Florida: 900,000
New York: 600,000
Moderate Populations:
New Jersey: 450,000
Illinois: 400,000
Arizona: 250,000
Georgia: 350,000
North Carolina: 325,000
Washington: 300,000
Virginia: 275,000
Maryland: 275,000
Colorado: 160,000
Nevada: 190,000
Lower Populations (less than 50,000 in several states):
States like Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, Maine, West Virginia, and others have fewer than 5,000 unauthorized immigrants each.
The states currently being targeted with trump's ICE brutality:
Minnesota: 81,000
Maine: 5,000
https://brilliantmaps.com/number-of-unauthorized-illegal-immigrants-by-us-state/
This is NOT about immigration control!!
malaise
(293,562 posts)This is about stealing elections
fujiyamasan
(1,355 posts)Its easier to go door to door and nab darker people. This is all about Somalian immigrants right now. Theyll scale up over time and ratchet it up against other groups.
mysteryowl
(8,382 posts)They tried using National Guard as trumps army, it didn't work.
Lovie777
(22,046 posts)they as well as the NG were not happy about it. Finally the courts shot down the use of NG in some states, although D.C. has been thrust upon with excess NGs.
Now they want to bring in thousands of soldiers into Minnesota but in order to do that they would have claim the insurrection act.
But alas, the current government is the republican party and in my opinion are the actual insurrectionists.
littlemissmartypants
(32,079 posts)mysteryowl
(8,382 posts)and trump hates them.
The kind of reasoning a tyrant would have.
malaise
(293,562 posts)More intelligent than his third wife
Captain Zero
(8,776 posts)Her handlers back in the Kremlin.
malaise
(293,562 posts)😀
rurallib
(64,581 posts)at some gathering last February when she said she would see him in court.
I think for Trump it is pure retribution. So were California and Portland
Lonestarblue
(13,280 posts)Haitians and Somalis have both been targeted.
Munu
(131 posts)Response to Munu (Reply #6)
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democrank
(12,279 posts)An abhorrent national Stephen Miller style skin color cleansing, an attempt to cause maximum chaos and financial damage to blue cities/states and an opportunity to decrease voter turnout for the midterm elections.
COL Mustard
(8,034 posts)Going after the worst of the worst. That would involve significant danger and Bovino and his henchmen arent about that at all. This is performative, with an occasional license to kill.
travelingthrulife
(4,657 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,391 posts)paleotn
(21,721 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,410 posts)In the letter, Bondi blamed both state and local leaders for the unrest that has come in response to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations. She said that Walz could "restore the rule of law."
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Bondi set out a list of three demands in the letter, including that the Department of Justice be given the states voter registration records, that the state repeal the "sanctuary policies," and share its records on Medicaid, and Food and Nutrition Service programs.
Trump/Bondi demand the state repeals "sacntuary policies", information on who gets state aid and voter information from Walz. States run their elections, not the federal government. Demanding voter information is a political goal. ICE is not doing immigration investigations, they have been unleashed, and possibly ordered to do violence and intimidation on the public. They are committing crimes of violence.
What Trump/Bondi/Noem/Bovino/Miller are doing IS TERRORISM.
surfered
(12,025 posts)paleotn
(21,721 posts)Or Newsome. It's targeted and designed to get in your head. Don't let it. Don't give these people more power than they actually have. Stand strong and remember the bulk of this regime is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
travelingthrulife
(4,657 posts)Chicago. Both Pritzker and Newsom beat them back with difficulty.
Everyone dismisses it when it happens on the west coast or in a large city like Chicago.
Portland and Seattle have been dealing with Trump's agitators and brown shirts since at least 2020.