Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa.
To me, it feels like some ICE thug trying to meet his quota while doing the minimum amount of work.
It’s kinda like Homer Simpson and the creepy shopkeeper:
“He ‘deported’ a guy for no valid reason, probably because it was easy and he’s a lazy amoral fuck who knows the fascists in charge are just looking at AI summaries and don’t really give a shit who gets deported or how”
“That’s bad”
“But the guy was leaving anyway and avoided a deportation order that would cause him problems later, and ICE spending its time on this might’ve meant one less ‘real’ deportation instead”
“That’s good”
“But the media coverage of deporting a famous person arbitrarily with impunity helps sow fear of the regime, which is what it wants”
Yeah. Part of Trump’s problem with deportation is that he is throwing away the law to get numbers up because the Biden administration deported a lot more people while adhering to the law.
Trump is trying to use immigration as a reason to set aside habeus corpus, but even then his administration is really bad at deportation.
To me, it feels like some ICE thug trying to meet his quota while doing the minimum amount of work.
It’s kinda like Homer Simpson and the creepy shopkeeper:
“He ‘deported’ a guy for no valid reason, probably because it was easy and he’s a lazy amoral fuck who knows the fascists in charge are just looking at AI summaries and don’t really give a shit who gets deported or how”
“That’s bad”
“But the guy was leaving anyway and avoided a deportation order that would cause him problems later, and ICE spending its time on this might’ve meant one less ‘real’ deportation instead”
“That’s good”
“But the media coverage of deporting a famous person arbitrarily with impunity helps sow fear of the regime, which is what it wants”
“That’s bad.”
Yeah. Part of Trump’s problem with deportation is that he is throwing away the law to get numbers up because the Biden administration deported a lot more people while adhering to the law.
Trump is trying to use immigration as a reason to set aside habeus corpus, but even then his administration is really bad at deportation.