Director of ICE Says Deportations Should Operate More Like Amazon Prime

When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, he promised his voters that he would run the government like a business: draining the swamp of corrupt bureaucrats, leveraging tax loopholes to keep money flowing, and keeping operations "under budget and ahead of schedule." That's a bad enough idea for the federal government as a whole — as we saw when the US lost 3 million jobs over Trump's first term — but an especially horrifying thought when applied to a law enforcement agency. Yet that's exactly what Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons envisions for the future of deportations in the United States. Speaking at the Border Security Expo earlier this week, Lyons bellowed that "we need to get better at treating this like a business," specifically, "like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.” His goal for the agency, Lyons said, is to see caravans of trucks hauling off immigrants at an industrial scale, reminiscent of the e-commerce giant's roving c ... Read full article.