In NYC, I have no idea how the deportation force is going to know who is here legally/illegally.

[Yavin4]

Or who is just a tourist. What are they going to do? Stop and frisk 8 million people?

Just in case, let me know when the jack-booted thugs are going to roll through so I can be off the streets.

[madinmaryland]

1. They'll use the Giuliani method of frisking only people of color.

[viva la]

2. They won't care.

They'll have that "terrorist" card with the skin color from Family Guy--

[RockRaven]

3. They won't care who they mistakenly detain or deport. That's part of their goal

anyway, getting rid of everyone who looks certain ways.

[misanthrope]

7. That what these kind of things always arrive at

Regardless of how they start. It has happened repeatedly through our not so distant past.

[dutch777]

4. It isn't going to be reason and logic...it's just going to be a show. Lay low. Visit rural Indiana or similar.

They have neither the people power nor the real time intelligence resources to hunt down anyone unless that person announces themselves on social media. Don't be that person. Escape and evade and drive them nuts!

[Bobstandard]

5. It will start with roadblocks

These won’t even be on major thoroughfares. They’ll pick spots on streets near major on and off ramps that workers from the suburbs use. They’ll ask for license and registration from the driver. If anyone else in the car looks ‘suspiciously like an illegal immigrant’ they’ll ask for proof of citizenship. If that’s not present, that person will be taken to a detention center until the matter can ‘be sorted out’.

They ll also raid construction job sites, factories, and warehouses where patriotic Magats have helpfully identified people they think are illegal immugrants. Or that they just don’t like. Or if they’re brown. Citizen or not, off to the ‘identification center’ ‘until this can be straightened out.’

[groundloop]

8. Oh well, it won't affect me so I don't care.

I'm absolutely sick thinking about what MAGATWorld II is going to be like. I still remember all the children in cages, separated from their families. Trump and his Team MAGAT are absolutely evil bastards.

[Cirsium]

16. All of this has already been happening

The infrastructure is in place, the manpower and equipment and budget are already there, and ICE has been practicing, testing and perfecting all of the necessary tactics and logistics for years. People need to wake up. We are way, way down that road already.

[Bobstandard]

18. Agreed. But now everyone will be affected

Those roadblocks won’t jut be designed to capture‘illegal immigrants’ (and those who look like them). They’ll be sending a message to everyone gets stopped or slowed and looked over. “We’re in charge here and you better keep your nose clean or it will be you ‘going downtown’.”

[Cirsium]

19. yep n/t

...

[DFW]

6. I found a niche protection

I am legally not there.

[drmeow]

9. They will do workplace raids

and sweep up everyone without regard to legal status.

[Cirsium]

14. Already happening

That has long been happening in farm country and it has been difficult to get people to pay any attetion to it.

[standingtall]

10. They will be deporting American citizens too

Anybody who isn't White will be under suspicion especially brown people.

[moondust]

11. "Papers, please"

is an expression or trope associated with police state functionaries demanding identification from citizens during random stops or at checkpoints.[1] It is a cultural metaphor for life in a police state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_papers,_please

[dickthegrouch]

12. Transmit video on a live streaming service of

Anyone who tries to detain you.

Setup the short cut on your phone for your favorite apps now, allow it from the Lock Screen.

Have innocuous sounding “under duress” codes setup with trusted friends.

[Duncan Grant]

15. Glad you mentioned it (#7).

https://www.klf-law.com/blog/7-apps-for-police-recording-and-public-protection

[Cirsium]

13. Snitching

Snitching has already been encouraged by ICE in the armed raids on farms here, including agents camped out at school bus stops and interrogating children.

[Meowmee]

17. Good question

I was discussing this with my brother last night and I said I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it. And when did he ever do anything he said he was going to do. I mean they did that atrocious stuff to children etc. coming in. But that’s not the same as trying to deport millions of people. I hope I am right, but who knows with this crazy country. Lunacy now rules and will for a long time.

[Ysabel]

20. I think they look at family restaurant owners...

They got rid of some people here who were featured in the news as opening new (really good) restaurants. There is some fierce restaurant competition going on here. Many owners have banded together to help each other out. I hope nobody else gets taken...

[alarimer]

21. I would hope blue states will not go along with this.

[Initech]

22. I'm guessing Fuckface is going to borrow a page from Putin and go full volunteer army.

And I'm sure plenty of his idiots will be more than happy to sign up.