700 troops have been mobilized to help ICE in raids in Florida, Louisiana and Texas
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 17 June 2025 17:04 EDT
The Defense Department has mobilized 700 troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Florida, Louisiana and Texas. These troops will not participate in law enforcement activities but will provide logistical support, and conduct administrative and clerical functions, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. The troops were deployed last week, Parnell said.
The three states have seen several large-scale ICE raids since Trump took office in January and implemented his hardline anti-immigration agenda, promising to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.
There are several ICE detention centers in Louisiana and Texas, and local police officers have already started assisting ICE efforts in Florida, the agency announced in April.
Reports emerged Tuesday of raids in southwest Louisiana. Federal and local agents raided the Delta Downs Racetrack, Casino and Hotel near Vinton, Louisiana, about two hours west of Baton Rouge, according to the Louisiana Illuminator. Its unclear how many people were detained.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-raids-troops-florida-louisiana-texas-b2771886.html
RockRaven
(18,723 posts)A stunt which fucks with 700 families and 700 employers for no good reason.
stillcool
(34,407 posts)normalizing the action of an occupied nation. Those red states won't complain a bit.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)chipping away, bit by bit for 45+ years..........and here we are in this culmination of all of them.......
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)cstanleytech
(28,222 posts)UpInArms
(54,072 posts)Little by little
crossing into the criminal breaches
the media normalizes and washes it with
These troops will not participate in law enforcement activities but will provide logistical support, and conduct administrative and clerical functions, according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.
Instead of referring to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and stating that no military is allowed to be deployed in a policing role on US soil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
purple_haze
(401 posts)When I lived in a border state, various military units were brought in to do the administrative tasks so the officers could be freed up to go to the field and do their usual jobs. The military units handled the collateral duties the officers had been doing.
stillcool
(34,407 posts)different red states have sent their national guard units to the border.
purple_haze
(401 posts)stillcool
(34,407 posts)Army or Marines on U.S. Soil? No news or such a historical event?
purple_haze
(401 posts)Were doing LPOPs and also providing support in the processing centers during his first term.
stillcool
(34,407 posts)found an article that said it's been going on since the 90's, and mentioned all you inferred.
no, thank YOU. i had no idea it had been going on for that long!
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)can't even pronounce the words Posse Comatatus Act.................
C Moon
(13,471 posts)AllaN01Bear
(28,607 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,731 posts)Javaman
(65,113 posts)Scrivener7
(58,333 posts)And instead of a dozen workers in a plant, they'd only have to arrest and prosecute a single farmer or a single owner of a manufacturing plant.
When they don't go after the employers, the employers just go and get more undocumented workers and the cycle continues. If they DID go after the employers and imposed stiff fines and jail sentences, there would be no more jobs to attract undocumented workers. This "problem" would go away.
They know this. They know they could stop this on a dime if that's what they really wanted to do. But they don't. So WE know that's not what they really want to do.
This is just a hunting party for the good old boys. This is sport for them. It has nothing to do with anger at lack of documentation. It has to do with people who want to think others are sub-human so they can feel superior.
BumRushDaShow
(165,763 posts)Scrivener7
(58,333 posts)the power of the sport and male bonding they experience with these raids. And the more cruel the raid, the more they feel like real men and the more they enjoy it.
BumRushDaShow
(165,763 posts)trying out their "skillz" on the (real life) "battlefield".
Scrivener7
(58,333 posts)DUer nuxvomica talks about the "broken hero's cycle." https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17679568
That is at work here, in it's lowest, most disgusting iteration.
BumRushDaShow
(165,763 posts)One would think that having been "at war" for over 20 years, some of that would have been broken through military training and experience - at least among the vets. But there is another group out there who are apparently "wannabe vets" who do nothing but role-play, with no sense of "purpose" other than "the frag".
Scrivener7
(58,333 posts)Bengus81
(9,826 posts)We certainly can't have that. Hey go ahead and arrest and detain away in those States (especially Texas) and watch the construction industry DIE.
ancianita
(42,896 posts)Broadly speaking, it looks to me as though the felon wants his oligarch network to rule over a feudal economy.
Because we'll suffer a long time before robotic farming and/or services take the place of these deported humans.
What's happening to distract from the Big Theft Bill bodes a future of sickness, suffering and enforced poverty on America.
Scrivener7
(58,333 posts)people who make their lives livable, offer those people viable legal paths to do the work those states need them to do, and pay them a living wage for a life that doesn't have to be lived in the shadows.
I can dream.
ancianita
(42,896 posts)dreaming they'll learn the hard way, we should acknowledge the important work Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttegieg, our congressional Democrats and Gavin Newsom are doing -- publicly facing the felon's maga and speaking convincingly about what they're facing. They are (helped by the felon's latest war indecisiveness) working to move maga toward its own safety and the future of its children/grandchildren.
This doubt spreading is on MSNBC news tonight, as well it should be.
Marthe48
(22,725 posts)his own morass, his own sucking sound, on American soil
nycbos
(6,683 posts)Despite the fact that many of them have undocumented family members.
We should always bear that in mind.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-imFcngFm9g
wolfie001
(7,087 posts)"Cut off your nose to spite your face" has never been so apt.
samsingh
(18,243 posts)BradBo
(924 posts)I cant imagine these young folks will in the end want to come to work.
wolfie001
(7,087 posts)Repulsive, racist pieces of shit. Everyone exposed in these operations needs to be ID'ed and held accountable when Democracy returns to DC. They propagated the state-run hate governments of tex-ASS and flori-DUH to the whole nation. Thanks to 6 spineless weasels on the SC. The bloated racist pig should never have been allowed anywhere near the WH. So now, here we are.
Native
(7,294 posts)OC375
(445 posts)Deploy them to Tyson and grab the Board. If this is an "Invasion", then the Board of Directors and the Command and Control.
Initech
(107,436 posts)And also fuck Trump!
Lovie777
(21,762 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,622 posts)Really smart thinking TACO Don and ICE!
BidenRocks
(2,779 posts)Guard duty sucked on a good day.
Protecting a building is not a mission for Marines.
Call Pinkertons or Brinks.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,529 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,174 posts)This is not a stapler.

Farmer-Rick
(12,480 posts)All three states are red. He really does hate the people who support him.
Do you think pedo Trump will get upset when they take the immigrants working at Mara loco? Maybe they'll take that always angry, immigrant Slovenian Sex worker he married before she does anymore gardening at the WH. We can hope.
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Trump: "Want to hire undocumented workers like I do? Then pay up bigly."
Botany
(76,398 posts)Blame them for the nations problems and then deport them.
Evolve Dammit
(21,499 posts)Figarosmom
(9,751 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 18, 2025, 11:57 PM - Edit history (1)
I wonder how those farmers and hospitality owners are going to take it. And I sure hope there are some MAGAs in the middle of home improvements or new construction who can't get the work completed. And all those elderly who rely on immigrants doing their landscaping, well I guess their kids will have to do it now.
Let them find out just how much Americans rely on immigrates.
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Now they are using military budget all while the Chief Lunatic gins up a war with Iran.
JustAnotherGen
(37,571 posts)Just put down their guns and say "no"? What would happen if a few hundred did - and that sparked more?
It's going to take a few brave men and women to spark the turn around by the military to inflict terror on the Regime.