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Dennis Donovan

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Wed Apr 9, 2025, 09:41 AM Apr 2025

Michigan Advance: ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings' [View all]

Michigan Advance - ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’

Trump immigration officials tout expanding the Alien Enemies Act while courting private contractors for mass removals

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - April 9, 2025 7:30 am



The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

Lyons was one of a series of Trump administration speakers at the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center, including Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar”, and Kristi Noem, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Most extolled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, and Noem promised to expand its use to swiftly deport immigrants.

Several speakers, including Homan, told the military industrial complex representatives in the crowd that the Trump administration is depending on the private sector to implement its mass deportation agenda.

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They have "expos" for this kind of shit?
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