ICE Operation Endgame: An expensive, ultimately futile cat-and-mouse game
Friedrich Nietzsche said: “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” This profound quote is exemplified by Jews, Blacks and Japanese-Americans, now-powerful groups who were violently suppressed and discriminated against less than 70 years ago.
Despite the projections of Operation Endgame, which began in 2003, it is ignorant to believe that a couple of thousand Marlboro men — i.e., the ICE Nazis — will put a dent in the 12-million economic-refugee population. Based on their own cost estimates ICE/DHS must realize this. But they have to do their best to sell their agenda to the taxpayers, because 12 million immigrants to chase is money in the bank for their department – i.e., job security.
ICE’s unscrupulous tactics (night/early-morning house raids, workplace raids, drawn guns, jails, etc.) are their own UNDOING: their actions will simply force undocumented immigrants to go further “underground”, like many Jews did during WWII.
Undocumented immigrants are intelligent, resourceful HUMANS, including many from the same genetic stock as the pre-Columbian engineers and astronomers of Mexico and Mesoamerica. Wiki or Google “Pre-Columbian” and witness how sophisticated their ancestors were.
ICE tries to nab undocumented immigrants based on:
- some “intelligence” (e.g., last known address, neighborhood ethnicity, hotline tips)
- generic “metrics” (most likely time to be home/work)
- local-police turn-ins (e.g., from traffic tickets)
- psychology (deceit; threats and intimidation; sleep disruption)
But you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to beat a corrupt, unethical system. Indeed, knowledge gleaned from news reports (youtube-1, youtube-2 ), blogs and web sites, and word-of-mouth tips penetrate the undocumented community quickly, and effective risk-management is implemented.
Immigrants stay extra clean, drive safe cars safely, move to safe houses and sanctuaries, and work hard (while maintaining superb work ethics) to satisfy their employers. The science and math/stats is on their side, Penn & Teller are on their side, God is on their side, the force is with them.
Meanwhile, ICE — and those who support their “cause” — will continue to drain the nation’s federal budget at unprecedented levels [NY Times, CNN, americanprogress.org]. Until the dam finally breaks:
A once-robust and vibrant economy will collapse and other nations will mock the now-dystopian country. A person in the EU, Japan, China or India may say: “The 2-trillion-dollar Iraq war, Abu Graib, Gitmo and now ICE … those U.S. fools bankrupted themselves because they couldn’t suppress primitive evolutionary psychologies of bloodlust and xenophobia.”