Emerging story from the early days of the Trump immigration crackdown is that it is all a very expensive show for the M#GA acolytes and right wing media. ICE and border patrol have not received any new funding and have no capacity to expand their enforcement operations. So, Trump has been diverting enforcement officers from other agencies to assist ICE. But all those additional resources are being used to stage showy raids for the media and have not resulted in any mass rounds ups of undocumented migrants. A slew of business interests have lobbied Trump heavily to make sure that ICE stays away from their workforce (this includes rich Trump friends who live in the Hamptons who actually got assurances from local law enforcement that no one would be rounding up their maids, nannies and grounds keepers.


