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    Added Context:

    I’ve been hearing these comments about ICE ramping up. Here is an example:

    https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/22/midway-blitz-is-over-but-ice-is-still-quietly-targeting-chicago-immigrants-especially-at-court/

    For context, the US gov gave these goons the budget of the German military with nearly no supervision. And as of right now, the budget renewal bill passing around in Congress is trying to give them even more obscene money with no increase in regulation.

    It would be unreasonable to expect that they are not going to use that money to increase their ranks and send goons back in. They are probably going to train them a bit better and scale back the naked maliciousness. When they murdered two Americans a few months back, they were under expressed orders from Miller to violently antagonize protestors because Miller believes that violence scares peaceful people.

    After the public backlash, as of now, it seems that the Miller doctrine is off. But ICE still has absurd levels of money and a mandate to develop itself as Trump’s personal imperial guard. They are going to go back to every major blue city and cause more havoc, even if their tactics improve to prevent being in the news as much.

    They’ve been actively terrorizing non-white people in red states the entire time, and we don’t hear much about it because red states are happy to support that. The Guardian says ICE and CBP have had about the same amount of arrests in Feb and March of this year as July and August of last year. So they have been active, just trying to keep out of the news by harassing people in communities that allow it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data

    BTW, as usual, the majority of people in ICE detention had no criminal record, per The Guardian’s reporting.

    And while I’m adding notes, we currently have one of the worst economies I’ve seen in my lifetime aside from the 2008 crisis (caused by Republican policies then as well). This anti-immigration venom from the WH is part of the problem. Economists know that immigration is a net positive for the economy. It creates jobs in addition to growth of GDP and opportunity. Here is a report presented by economists to the US Congress from 2016:

    although immigrants increase the supply of labor, they also spend their wages on homes, food, TVs and other goods and services and expand domestic economic demand. This increased demand, in turn, generates more jobs to build those homes, make and sell food, and transport TVs. […]

    Economists generally agree that the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy are broadly positive. Immigrants, whether high- or low-skilled, legal or illegal, are unlikely to replace native-born workers or reduce their wages over the long-term

    After all the damage the Trump 2.0 has done to the economy so far, insisting on this damage to immigration is continuing to sink the economy.













  • “We are going to put Philadelphia on the map of having one of the strongest local laws in the entire country, telling ICE how they need to behave when they’re in Philadelphia,” Landau told WHYY News.

    The “ICE Out” legislation:

    • Prohibits U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and all other law enforcement officers from wearing masks or using unmarked vehicles, and requires them to display badges, with exceptions for undercover work, SWAT teams and medical purposes.
    • Codifies the city’s longstanding commitment to not participating in collaboration agreements with ICE under its 287(g) program.
    • Prohibits city agencies, including police, from collaborating with ICE and other federal civil immigration enforcement agents absent a judicial warrant.
    • Prohibits city agencies from collecting information on people’s citizenship or immigration status and sharing that information or other personal data with ICE.
    • Prohibits discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status by city agencies, employers, housing providers or businesses.
    • Bars ICE from conducting raids on city-owned properties.
    • Bans ICE access, absent a judicial warrant, to city-owned spaces, including libraries, health centers, shelters and rec centers.

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the legislation.







  • I appreciate your disagreement as I was being (perhaps a little too) sarcastic above.

    However, I would counter your point sincerely by saying that affordability and a lack of resources are more likely causes for native people having less children.

    There is also a lot of fear for the future from things like war, nationalism, and various other global catastrophies.

    I know a lot of thoughtful married people that find it easier not to have children then to worry about these things. And this is not something unique to Japan.

    Also I’d say the anti-immigration policies and culture speak for themselves.

    In any case.,I’m sure that money could better fight a population decline if it weren’t being given to dating apps.





  • The “State of the Air” 2026 report finds that even after decades of successful efforts to reduce sources of air pollution, 44% of Americans—152.3 million people—are living in places that get failing grades for unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution. We found that nearly half of American children (46%, or 33.5 million people under the age of 18) live in counties that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution. Ten percent of children (7.3 million people under age 18) live in counties with failing grades for all three measures. Infants, children and teens are especially vulnerable to the health harms of breathing air pollution. Their lungs are still developing, they breathe more air for their body size than adults, and they frequently spend more time outdoors.