Knowing ICE is Bad Politics

Stephen Miller desperately wants to engage in some ethnic cleansing in Maine, which is also home to a large Somali community, one that has revitalized some dead mill towns and nothing screams the new herrenvolk than deindustrialized mill towns I guess. Anyway, they sent in ICE for another big operation, but I suspect Susan Collins made a phone call and said that if you do this, Democrats are going to win my seat this year, because it has ended about 5 seconds after it began.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have ended enhanced operations in Maine, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday, as the White House continues to pivot on immigration activities and messaging amid the fallout from the killing of a Minneapolis nurse last week.

“There are currently no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations here,” Collins wrote in a post on X. “I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state.”

The agency launched an immigration enforcement campaign in the Pine Tree State last Tuesday, arresting more than 50 people in its first day and panicking local officials, including Maine Gov. Janet Mills. Since then, ICE officials have arrested more than 200 people in the state.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the status of its operations in Maine.

Susan Collins deserves credit for absolutely nothing other than cynicism, but she’s not an idiot. The more pressure each and every part of the ethnic cleansing campaign receives, the harder it is for them to do this anywhere.