Ice Director Says Deportations Should Be Run Like 'Amazon Prime for Human Beings'

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be 'like a business' in its deportation process

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"We need to get better at treating this like a business," ICE Director Todd Lyons said, adding that the detention process should be "like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings."

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-- The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) April 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Oh that pesky Constitution. But I guess if the "president" does it, then everything is A-OK.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-09 08:58 PM | Reply

The cynical cruelty is still the point.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-09 09:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I think Mr Lyons should be charged and tried for deporting innocent people.
Life in prison sounds fair.

#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-04-09 09:50 PM | Reply

BS! If I make a mistake I print out a label and take the item to the UPS Store and they return it to Amazon for a refund.

#4 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-04-09 10:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings."

Oh, I get it.
Slavery.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-09 10:18 PM | Reply

Like a business, huh?

"The Wannsee Conference held on 20 Jan 1942 in the affluent Berlin suburb of Wannsee was a pivotal meeting in the orchestration of the Holocaust. Chaired by SS-Obergruppenfhrer Reinhard Heydrich, the conference brought together fifteen high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany to discuss and formalize the logistics of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." While the decision to annihilate European Jewry had already been made, Wannsee was crucial in organizing the bureaucratic machinery that would implement genocide on an unprecedented scale."

Link:

considerthesourceny.org

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-09 10:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The cruelty is not a bug, it is a feature...Trump ran on a platform of hate and misogyny and white nationalism, white christian nationalism, so on and on it will go.
And yes, the Democratic Party was woefully tuned out when it came to what the American people wanted in regards to strong borders.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-04-10 08:10 AM | Reply

They failed to lie enough.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-10 10:54 AM | Reply

The problem in the USA is the reckless obsession and injection of politics in everything. Remove the fkkkkg politics and do what makes sense. Politics takes sense out of policy.

#9 | Posted by Robson at 2025-04-10 02:25 PM | Reply

The problem in the USA is the reckless obsession and injection of politics in everything

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What ROBSON means is that he like to see the elimination of any politics not his own.

Much is the same why that he like to see the elimination of any skin color not his own.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-10 02:32 PM | Reply

Actually I don't really hate or despise others with different political beliefs unless they are fundamentally the ones who hate others just because they do not think like them. I'm a long time conservative who is rational and has voted both ways. Leftists have historically been the radical ones when it comes to politics. I see it in my own family. Others too. The haters and are never ever tolerant and they are never liberals..

When it comes to hate speech and so called hate itself it most likely is based on politics (as in political beliefs) politics as a source of hate needs to be just eliminated. Politics and intolerance is the fundamental basis of hate speech because it is based on political beliefs.

No media enterprise should ever be permitted to have one way preaching platform without allowing opposite opinions. That is the problem. Force people of all opinions to have face to face discussion.

Whether the voice is something like CSPAN Washington Journal or The Voice or Fox, every platform needs at have least two opinions to counteract those with the power or pulpit.

#11 | Posted by Robson at 2025-04-10 06:41 PM | Reply

"No media enterprise should ever be permitted to have one way preaching platform without allowing opposite opinions"

That was called the Fairness Doctrine.

Republicans hated it.
Republicans repealed it.
Democrats get your blame for Republicans repealing it.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-10 07:11 PM | Reply

#12 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

They were correct in repealing it. NPR supposedly still tries to be fair. They three stories about the Democrats in a friendly light, then three stories trashing Republicans. That's how the "Fairness Doctrine" works, so what was the point.

You can't legislate "fairness" in the media.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-10 07:44 PM | Reply

I'm a long time conservative who is rational

11 | POSTED BY ROBSON

You're not conservative; you're not rational.

If you were either people would treat you different.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-10 07:53 PM | Reply

"I'm a long time conservative who is rational"

If you're a rational conservative, you'd know Donald Trump is not.

Rational Conservatives don't go around destroying their country's pre-eminent position in the world.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-10 07:56 PM | Reply