> If “public safety” is the goal, publish detention criteria + category detail + outcome metrics

I completely agree.

We can agree on 

> It is a "cleansing"

But the “crime + affordability” justification doesn’t match what’s scaling. Kocher’s https://stacker.news/items/1407299 breakdown of ICE’s Jan 7 snapshot shows detention at a record **68,990**, with growth since late Sept driven mostly by **"Other immigration violators”** (no charges/convictions)—~**72%** of growth—while **prior convictions** are **~8%**. On affordability, And the rent math is tiny: even **~1M fewer renters ≈ $4.40/month** lower average rent short-run. So this isn’t “round up violent criminals to fix rent.” It’s a scalable status pipeline. And Chicago shows the oversight pattern https://stacker.news/items/1408384/r/Yermin: when plaintiffs asked about command influence (including comms involving Miller), answers get blocked and buried in privilege/process fights. If “public safety” is the goal, publish detention criteria + category detail + outcome metrics.

Yermin

Mass deportations didn’t solve affordability

I think what they were trying to achieve with the mass deportations wasn't to lower rents, but to reduce the crime rate. It's no lie or secret that the previous administration left the doors wide open to immigration, resulting in an excessive influx of people without any screening. This, in turn, led to a flood of criminal immigrants whose interest wasn't in becoming part of the workforce or the working class. The US needed a thorough cleansing of all these undesirables, and that's what Trump is trying to do. Furthermore, the increase in rents is more closely linked to currency devaluation and silent inflation than to migrants. And to this we must add that most people are concentrated in specific cities, which, of course, increases the demand for rentals and their price.

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The Rent Fall That Cost a Workforce

> Mass deportations didn’t solve affordability

I think what they were trying to achieve with the mass deportations wasn't to lower rents, but to reduce the crime rate. It's no lie or secret that the previous administration left the doors wide open to immigration, resulting in an excessive influx of people without any screening. This, in turn, led to a flood of criminal immigrants whose interest wasn't in becoming part of the workforce or the working class. The US needed a thorough cleansing of all these undesirables, and that's what Trump is trying to do. Furthermore, the increase in rents is more closely linked to currency devaluation and silent inflation than to migrants. And to this we must add that most people are concentrated in specific cities, which, of course, increases the demand for rentals and their price.