Interesting data about location of undocumented - many more in RED states , but NO ice

[Bread and Circuses]

I wonder what the Republican voters think? Didn’t they want their PedoPrez to get rid of their Brown people too?
OR , maybe No. Because their economy would tank without hard-working, low-wage Brown people.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-01-18T21:03:04.278Z

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I suspected as much...always w/ tRUMP and his thugs, it's one-sided...

[hannah]

2. It seems

The Red States are sanctuary cities now?

[Bread and Circuses]

4. HAHA, brilliant,

[progressoid]

3. Well somebody has to clean the toilets at Mar-a-lardo

[bluestarone]

5. Judges need to hear this shit!!

Come on judges, see through the FOG OF LIES!!!

[Ritabert]

6. Just send ICE to South Florida to round up Russians who've overstayed their visas.

They don't call it Little Moscow for nothing.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. It never was. (n/t)

[LiberalArkie]

8. Really, I believe the war on Minnesota is about "How dare that being Walsh dare run against me in the last election"

[enough]

9. This is so important-- thanks for posting!

[paleotn]

10. He's going to balkanize the country. Maybe that's Putin's long term plan.

Donnie doesn't have long term plans other than maybe lunch. But seriously, we're not going to put up with this for much longer. Minnesota is another blue state that sends more $'s to DC than it gets back. They're killing the golden geese who keep Texas and Mississippi budgets afloat. Hey, if that's what they want to do, fine by me.

[pinkstarburst]

12. Texas pays more than it gets back.

Texas pays the third most of any state, after NY and CA.

[paleotn]

15. Nope

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/02/24/federal-state-funding-balance-of-payments-map/78547523007/

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/states-money-federal-government

[NotHardly]

11. Never has been

[moonscape]

13. CA had 2.25 M and seems to me,

though I’m too lazy to do the math, that FL might have a higher number per capita than we do.

Okay, FL and TX have more undocumented per capita than CA but we’re definitely next on ICE’s hit parade. Not by much but still …

FL … .0698
MN … .0257
TX … .0688
CA … .059

[debsy]

14. It is about Tim Walz because he had the audacity to speak against Trump during the race last year

It is Donnie dumpster’s personal retribution and we are paying for it with our hard earned tax dollars.

[Katcat]

18. Exactly

[rhiannon55]

16. He's president only of his voters; the rest of us comprise the enemy

He’s punishing his enemies, blue states and blue cities. He loves to punish people and probably gets off on it.

[txwhitedove]

17. In last two weeks just starting to see reports of ICE in Texas, very quiet and sneaky: El Paso,

Dallas, near Austin, Rio Grand Valley, Pasadena. An Instagram confirmed my suspicion they were cutting power to homes, making it look like just another grid outage, grabbing someone when they stepped outside to check or come to the door. That's illegal. Lots of strange nighttime outages and gun shots in our area which is unusual. Nighttime, no witnesses.

[Vogon_Glory]

19. I still wonder about the apathetic and even Republican-leaning Texas Latinos

Surely it’s dawned on them that the current Presidency’s campaign against “Illegals” is as much about racism (if not more so) than it is about people who came to the US without proper paperwork.

I admit that I’m a white Anglo, but I continue to be baffled. Why do they tolerate it? Do they think Donald John is truthful and trustworthy or something? Do they think that the Republicans see them as equals?

Texas Latinos are a plurality of the population of Texas. There are more of them than there are Texans of purely-European descent. I don’t know what percentage of Texas Latinos have passed their 18th birthday, but if they so choose, they already have the capability to throw almost every Texas Republican holding statewide office out of their jobs.

(Offal)-swallowing is optional. It can end when voters remind elected politicians that they work for the people and if they don’t do what the people want, the can be thrown out of office.

[bluesbassman]

20. Although nowhere near the numbers in Minnesota, ICE is operating in Texas.

Focusing mostly in the urban, left leaning areas like DFW, Houston, and Austin, but using similar tactics.
There was a action last week in Kyle, which is an Austin suburb about 25 miles from the Austin suburb and county I live in.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/kyle/ice-detainee-hospitalized-in-kyle-local-officials-say-they-werent-notified-of-operations/amp/