The Daily Populous Sunday January 11st, 2026 day edition
Authored by talkingpointsmemo.com and submitted by metacyan

If you’ve been watching reportage and viral videos of immigration raids over the last six months, you’ll remember that often there will be law enforcement officers or agents with uniforms that simply say “DHS Police.” Not Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol, just “DHS Police.” As far as I know, there is no such agency under DHS. DHS employs some 80,000 law enforcement officers spread across nine agencies and offices. So I think that the uniforms just provide a general designation that these are law enforcement officers from within the Department of Homeland Security. That’s a vast amount of coercive power concentrated in this one department, notwithstanding the fact that most of these offices and agencies exist for fairly narrow areas of enforcement, administering points of entry into the U.S., inspecting persons and luggage getting on to commercial passenger jets, protecting federal officials and federal installations.

But what was clear from DHS’s creation was that that power could all be directed and concentrated toward some corrupt or illegitimate purpose. And that, among many other things, is what we’ve seen over the last year.

MedSPAZ on January 11st, 2026 at 04:55 UTC »

I was called a terrorist sympathizer for being against creating the DHS back in the early 2000s.

RoosterMedical on January 11st, 2026 at 04:26 UTC »

When the terrorists didn’t show up ICE should have been disbanded and wasn’t and is instead another component of the police state that has grown around the citizens.

ic_Warthog on January 11st, 2026 at 04:17 UTC »

there is still a polite norms and standards contingent within democrats, that believes this issue can be won with civility and turning down the temperature while maintaining status quo.

but look at ice recruitment ads, they are literally saying this is war. dhs has a goal to deport 100 million people. roughly 1/3rd of our population. that is why they are targeting legal immigrants who are just waiting upcoming hearings. that's why they are doing show of force militant maneuvers, canvassing entire neighborhoods by going door to door harassing us citizens far more than actually dealing with any type of immigrants.

these are war tactics.

these people are in their hearts part of civil war 2.0. and their first focus is ethnic cleansing.

abolish ice is the floor. that is the bare minimum if we are ever going to get this country back.