Daily Podcasts Video Research

ICE wants to treat deportations like a business – history warns us against that

JL;DR SUMMARY Todd Lyons, Director of ICE, proposes a deportation strategy likened to Amazon Prime, involving AI-driven, systematic deportations via trucks, raising ethical alarms reminiscent of past human rights violations. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

HolocaustArtificial IntelligenceHuman RightsDehumanizationMax WeberRationalizationIceDeportationsZygmunt BaumanBureaucratic Efficiency

Places mentioned

Phoenix, Arizona, United States
"Speaking on April 8 at the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center, Lyons advocated for a nationwide system of trucks that would collect immigrants for deportation."
Leeds, United Kingdom
"Sociology professor Jack Palmer, director of the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds, said that Bauman saw Nazi Germany, which had an obsession with modernity and racial purity, as a gardening state."
Germany
"Bauman saw Nazi Germany, which had an obsession with modernity and racial purity, as a gardening state."
Israel
"invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 49199
Cairo Source ID 35
Retrieved 2025-04-12 05:31:19 UTC
Curated 2025-04-12 08:30:35 UTC