700 troops have been mobilized to help ICE in raids in Florida, Louisiana and Texas

[BumRushDaShow]

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. It’s 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]

1. ICE has 22000 employees. Adding 700 national guard is hardly more than a stunt.

A stunt which fucks with 700 families and 700 employers for no good reason.

[stillcool]

30. somehow that sounds worse

normalizing the action of an occupied nation. Those red states won't complain a bit.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. They have been taking these "baby steps"

chipping away, bit by bit for 45+ years..........and here we are in this culmination of all of them.......

[travelingthrulife]

50. Homeland Security blew their budget, now they are raiding Nat Guard budget.

[cstanleytech]

2. And here I thought using the military in such a method inside the US borders was illegal.

[UpInArms]

4. It's a pushing of a test run

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]

13. Its a loophole

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]

28. those are national guard

different red states have sent their national guard units to the border.

[purple_haze]

35. active duty also.

[stillcool]

38. Trump deployed the

Army or Marines on U.S. Soil? No news or such a historical event?

[purple_haze]

40. Active duty Army and Marine Corps

Were doing LPOPs and also providing support in the processing centers during his first term.

[stillcool]

45. I'm amazed at how little I know. Thank You

found an article that said it's been going on since the 90's, and mentioned all you inferred.

[purple_haze]

47. wow!

no, thank YOU. i had no idea it had been going on for that long!

[DENVERPOPS]

37. MAGAots

can't even pronounce the words Posse Comatatus Act.................

[C Moon]

3. So trump is going to try to juggle two wars: war with Iran, and a Civil War. Good luck with that dumb uck.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. and they whined for 30 years in late nite fillabusters against d congresses deficits ? snork

[Karasu]

5. They're trying to normalize this fucking shit and it's not subtle.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Slippery slope.

[Javaman]

10. we are already sliding down. nt

[Scrivener7]

7. If they went after the ones employing undocumented immigrants, the immigration would all stop tomorrow.

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]

8. It's ethnic cleansing.

[Scrivener7]

11. Yes, but they don't JUST want to create a space where there are no tan or brown people. I think we underestimate

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]

12. It's the "Call of Duty" / "Fortnite" video-game playing nuts

trying out their "skillz" on the (real life) "battlefield".

[Scrivener7]

14. Exactly.

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]

16. Good "human nature" analysis

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]

18. Right? It makes so much senseless stuff make sense.

[Bengus81]

20. Yeah...but then they'd have to arrest WHITE people for immigration CRIMES

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]

41. Totally right about the mass psychology of it. But what happens to the actual economies of those states because of it.

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]

42. Those states are the ones who voted for it. Maybe if it happened those states would learn to quit demonizing the

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]

44. True. Yet they, like their taco leader never thought it through. Beyond

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]

9. felon is creating his own Vietnam

his own morass, his own sucking sound, on American soil

[nycbos]

15. Latinos in Florida and Texas voted for Trump.

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]

23. Same stupidity as the Palestinian protestors

"Cut off your nose to spite your face" has never been so apt.

[samsingh]

17. red states

[BradBo]

21. Who would want to join the military now?

I can’t imagine these young folks will in the end want to come to work.

[wolfie001]

22. Federal attack on the Democratic Party

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]

24. My passport is going in my purse right now!

[OC375]

25. Tyson

Deploy them to Tyson and grab the Board. If this is an "Invasion", then the Board of Directors and the Command and Control.

[Initech]

26. Arrest Pete Hegseth and Tom Homan now!

And also fuck Trump!

[Lovie777]

27. 700 Marines just for the City of Angels....

[ProudMNDemocrat]

29. Out of the MILLIONS who call LA home.

Really smart thinking TACO Don and ICE!

[BidenRocks]

43. 700 Marines with no ROE

Guard duty sucked on a good day.

Protecting a building is not a mission for Marines.
Call Pinkertons or Brinks.

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. I'm sure that MagaMike is deliriously happy.

[LudwigPastorius]

32. You don't deploy 700 soldiers and marines to have them do "clerical functions".

This is not a stapler.

[Farmer-Rick]

33. So, it looks like red states are targets too

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]

49. He will shake his wealthy supporters down so they can be exempt.

Trump: "Want to hire undocumented workers like I do? Then pay up bigly."

[Botany]

34. Didn't Germany do something like this with the Jews from 1933 to 1945?

Blame them for the nation’s problems and then deport them.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. Everything Trump touches Dies.

[Figarosmom]

46. So now the red states will feel it.

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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.

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[travelingthrulife]

48. Snow Queen Puppy Killer blew her budget by 1 billion, requesting 2 billion more.

Now they are using military budget all while the Chief Lunatic gins up a war with Iran.

[JustAnotherGen]

51. Can these soldiers

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.

[Norrrm]

52. Trump is using our military as part of his personal Gazpacho. (Thanks MTG)