ICE raids, mass deportation are 'the new normal,' modeled after Florida

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

May 12, 2025, 2:16 p.m. ET


Florida officials called Operation Tidal Wave, where over 1,000 migrants were detained in five days, the "new normal." And not just for the Sunshine State, but for the rest of the country.

Within the next 60 days, the federal government will attempt to put into practice an approach to mass deportation that's "strikingly similar" to Operation Tidal Wave, said Larry Keefe, executive director of the State Board of Immigration Enforcement, at a press conference in Tampa May 12. "The techniques, the methods … will be the standard that our brother and sister states apply in the effort," he said.

At the lectern, Keefe showed off a 37-page document that he called the "Florida blueprint" to mass deportation. The State of Florida Immigration Enforcement Operations Plan, he said, will be the "prototype." "Operation Tidal Wave" was a week-long sting by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Florida law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security that targeted areas with high-immigrant populations. It led to the arrest of more than 1,100 people, include a man who had no known criminal record and had recently played Jesus in his church's Easter play.

According to records reviewed by the Miami Herald, authorities aimed to detain 800 people in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and the cities of Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Stuart, Tallahassee and Fort Myers.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/12/ice-raids-mass-deportation-new-normal-florida/83582776007/

[1WorldHope]

1. Just not very smart people. Maybe they don't eat fruit or vegetables.

Or, eat fast food, or need house painters, brick layers, nursing home staff, my eye just started to tic. Fucking fuckers. The kindest people in the world and they act like they are rounding up rats. Stupid is as stupid does.

[Initech]

2. Worst "new normal" ever. Fuck ICE and Tom Homan. May they rot in hell.

[Skittles]

3. and these fascist fucks call themselves CHRISTIAN

[taxi]

4. There is also something else beyond trades, agricultural work, and services that is often overlooked.

Frequently mentioned are the contribution through deductions on the paychecks, taxes paid, and spending in the local economies. What many fail to realize is that those coming here to do these jobs are here because they want to be here. We are making sure that they do not want to be here. When the desire to be here is removed, when risks to their safety outweigh the benefits, and their trust in the system is gone, it is gone for a long, long time. The workers won't come back.

[slightlv]

5. Their "new normal" has no place for people who care about anybody or anything,

beyond what it can do for them, personally. We've said it often, and I believe it to be true -- Cruelty IS the point. And the "deporting" (which will change definitions along the way), will eventually winnow down to anyone with any sense of ethics or morals.

[Karasu]

6. Assuming fascism is the new normal, sure. Thanks to an entire political party of bootlickers.