Garrison Davis

We have no evidence that these women were targeted for removal on the basis of being trans, but what happened to them is still horrific.

As of now, there has been no reporting on people being targeted for detention based on looking trans.

Because the government has not actually argued that being trans itself qualifies as reasonable suspicion of a legal presence.

When I voiced skepticism about the claims sourced from this Substack article, people responded to me saying that even if this has yet to happen, one could argue that ICE still could expand their operations to include profiling and targeting trans people for detention, since they're already profiling and rounding up quote-unquote random brown people.

After all, this podcast is called It Could Happen Here, and ICE has detained both citizens and legal immigrants and sent them to quote-unquote camps.

Though this show is called It Could Happen Here, that doesn't mean we should spread unsubstantiated doom spiraling disconnected from the material reality of real policies advancing a fascist project.

The Trump administration has been very clear and open about targeting groups of people flooding through our southern border.

That is who ICE is designed to target, and they have policy directing them to do so, and new permission from the Supreme Court.

It is true that ICE has temporarily detained U.S.

citizens when looking for people they suspect are undocumented immigrants.

This has been for two reasons.

U.S.

citizens accused of interfering with ICE activity while protesting, or because ICE suspects U.S.

citizens may be undocumented based on factors like skin tone, occupation, or speaking a foreign language, usually Spanish.

This second group of people then must demonstrate proof of citizenship, or if they are immigrants, their legal status.

The period they're detained is supposed to be relatively short, usually a few hours.

Though in extreme cases, that's stretched into multiple days.

When I posted about this online, someone sent me a Wikipedia article claiming it proved that ICE has deported 170 U.S.

citizens during Trump's second term.

The article actually said 170 citizens have been detained.