Targeting the families of those who use the drones and machine guns? Seems like a really dumb idea to target the people whose bases you just moved onto so as to hide from the people.

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
    510·
    11 days ago

    Ice has virtually unlimited money and complete intelligence, which is to say informational intelligence, not actual intelligence obviously. A few disparate Marines on their own do not stand a chance without organization behind them.

    • Town@lemmy.zip
      10·
      10 days ago

      Ice is already around $170 billion, which is roughly three times the budget of the Marine corps.

      Most people can’t understand just how much money that is. $40 billion of that is going to building new detention centers and various kinds of concentration camps. That’s about $7m per ICE employee every year.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        2·
        10 days ago

        And they have been wasting no time on spending it. They’ve been hiring and buying Americans’ data and arming themselves.