important point. LAPD has been dramatically short of their recruitment goals for years and used the excess positions as a slush fund at the expense of the city (we were finally able to cut that down this year, shout out to the progressive bloc). ICE is going to be dependent on local cooperation in
god so much of that money is going to disappear into Contractorland with nothing produced from it
Yeah like on the one hand a lot of it will be wasted and disappear without furthering the construction of fascism in America, on the other hand a lot of terrible people are going to get rich off of graft and contracts fraud
it's a good sign when i'm rooting for contract fraud right
order to have the reach they want (287g programs) which means local action and pressure can interfere with their operations. The main immediate scalable areas for ICE budget are technology, detention facilities, and uh graft.