Trump’s
do
everything
all
at
once
approach
to
immigration
enforcement
is starting
to
go
off
the
rails.
Trump’s plainly
stated
hatred of
“shithole
countries”
and
their
inhabitants
manifested
in
early
wins
for
his
bigoted
“remove
the
brown
people”
programs.
Then
Stephen
Miller
(the
man
who
answers
the
“what
if
a
lightbulb
had
eyebrows
and
was
also
a
white
nationalist”
question
no
one
asked)
showed
up
and
amped
things
up. 3,000
arrests
per
day! he
screamed
into
the
void.
(The
void
did
not
respond
to
our
request
for
comment
before
press
time.)
A
lot
of
wrenches
approached
the
anti-migrant
works
and
immediately
threw
themselves
into
it.
First,
ICE
didn’t
have
enough
officers
to
staff
a
surge.
No
problem,
said
the
administration.
Here’s
$50,000
and
almost
no
training
to
get
you
started!
Here’s several
(more!)
billion
dollars to
keep
it
going!
Here’s
everyone
we
actually
can’t
spare
from
multiple
federal
agencies!
Bang!
Into
the
blue
cities
they
went, kidnapping
and
murdering their
way
towards
Miller’s
arrest
quota.
All
well
and
good
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
you’ve
still
got
to
have
some
lawyers
left
to
fight
the
lawsuits
these
surges
generated,
as
well
as
to
handle
challenges
against
detentions,
removals,
and
direct
flights
to foreign
torture
prisons.
Well,
the
Trump
administration
no
longer has
enough
lawyers left
to
do
its
dirty
work.
Whoever hasn’t
been
purged for
not
being
loyal
enough
or
exited
ahead
of
the
purges
has
been
asked
to
clean
up
a
mess
with
extremely
limited
amounts
of
resources
and
manpower.
To
make
things
worse,
Trump’s
handpicked
prosecutors
keep
being kicked
out
of
court because
Trump
bypassed
the
appointment
process
essential
to
them
remaining
employed.
Then
there’s
the self-inflicted
reputational
damage Trump’s
DOJ
has
done.
The
government,
for
the
most
part,
is
no
longer
granted
the
presumption
of
good
faith.
Courts
across
the
land
are
not
only
aware
this
government
isn’t
acting
in
good
faith,
but
they’re
refusing to pretend it
is,
no
matter
how
much
copy-pasted
boilerplate
appears
in
DOJ
filings.
Hundreds
of
adverse
rulings
have
already
been
handed
down.
Hundreds
more
are
on
the
horizon,
especially
now
that
the
DOJ
has
admitted
pretty
much
every
arrest
that
took
place
in
an
immigration
court
was
illegal.
It
all
adds
up
to
the
long
tail
of
“flooding
the
zone.”
If
you
can’t
bail
water
fast
enough,
you’re
going
to
drown.
Here’s
how
this
is
working
out
for
the
DOJ
now, as
reported
by
Kyle
Cheney
for
Politico:
In
dozens
of
cases
over
the
past
several
weeks,
Justice
Department
lawyers
have
declined
to
push
back
on
detainees’
claims
that
they’re
owed
a
chance
to
make
a
case
for
their
release.
In
those
cases,
the
administration
has
simply
agreed
to
provide
a
bond
hearing,
or
even
outright
release,
telling
judges
that
officials
“do
not
have
an
opposition
argument
to
present”
or
saying
they
couldn’t
cobble
together
enough
information
to
mount
a
defense.
[…]
The
new
phenomenon
is
the
latest
manifestation
of
the
extraordinary
strain
that
the
administration’s
mass
deportation
effort
—
compounded
by
the mass
detention of
people
who
have
lived
for
years
without
incident
in
the
U.S.
interior
—
has
exacted
on
the
justice
system.
While
ICE
bathes
in
newly
awarded
billions,
the
problems
its
efforts
have
created
are
being
attended
to
by
a
skeleton
crew
that
can’t
keep
up
with
Trump’s
rights-violating
fire
hose.
That’s
created
some
pretty
gaudy
numbers,
which
certainly
isn’t
a
compliment.
Federal
judges
have
ruled
more
than
7,000
times
in
recent
months
that
ICE
has
illegally
locked
people
up
without
—
at
the
very
least
—
a
chance
to
prove
they
can
live
safely
in
the
community.
That’s
a
lot.
This
administration
is
setting
judicial
records
that
hopefully
will
never
be
broken.
It’s
not
just
the
government
losing
cases
on
the
merits.
Many
of
these
losses
are
the
result
of
the
DOJ
simply
being
unable
to
respond at
all to
legal
challenges
by
people
ICE
has
arrested,
detained,
or
deported.
If
there’s
a
silver
lining
in
this
bigoted
war
on
non-white
people,
it’s
everything
listed
above.
Trump’s
administration
may
be
evil
and
stupid
in
equal
measures,
but
those
aspects
are
being
held
in
check
by
its
inability
or
unwillingness
to
anticipate
the
natural
side
effects
of
sending
wave
after
wave
of
masked
goons
into
cities
to
kidnap
anyone
who
looks
a
little
bit
foreign.
The
administration
is
a
defective
centrifuge
that
edges
closer
to
disintegration
with
every
rotation.
What
remains
to
be
seen
is
who’s
going
to
get
hit
with
the
majority
of
the
shrapnel
when
it
finally
falls
apart.
We
can
only
hope
it’s
the
people
that
started
it
spinning
in
the
first
place.
Trump’s
Anti-Migrant
Surge
Is
Now
A
Mudslide
That’s
Wiping
Out
What’s
Left
Of
His
DOJ
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