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ICE Director Says He Wants To Run Deportations Like Amazon Prime, 'But With Human Beings'
In Lyons' perfect set up, ICE vans would crisscross neighborhoods carrying ICE agents doing swift abductions and deportations—just like Amazon's delivery services.
As reported by conference media attendee the Arizona Mirror, Lyons told the audience full of defense and security contractors:
"We need to get better at treating this like a business."
"Like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings."
Lyons added he hoped ICE could utilize AI—or A1 as Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon refers to it—to "free up bed space" and "fill up airplanes."
Lyons' remarks quickly drew backlash.
The Executive Director of immigrant rights organization America’s Voice, Vanessa Cárdenas, issued an official statement after Lyons' remarks were reported and verified.
Cárdenas wrote:
"Human beings aren’t products to be wrapped, packaged, and shipped to fulfill an order. Yet the acting leader of ICE believes that is the ‘dream’ way for ICE to fulfill Trump’s order of mass deportation."
"Todd Lyons is the one who needs to be sent packing—and his comments encapsulate so much about this administration and their cruel and costly mass deportation agenda and worldview. Human beings, regardless of immigration status, aren’t Amazon packages."
"We’ve experienced the violence that accompanies the dehumanization of immigrants, and we know the danger within this sentiment and line of thinking. As the administration turbocharges its mass deportation agenda, they are viewing any immigrant without status as a target to toss aside and ship out of the country."
"Immigrants are hardworking taxpayers, dedicated parents, and dependable co-workers; they are community members, Dreamers, TPS holders and caregivers; they have dreams and due process rights and basic dignities that this administration refuses to acknowledge."
Others echoed Cárdenas' condemnation.
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Lyons wasn't alone in wanting deportations to become big business, lining the pockets of the "friends of Donald" who contributed money to his campaign and bought memberships in Trump's golf resorts or Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump's "border czar," Tom Homan, told the crowd:
"We need to buy more beds, we need more airplane flights and I know a lot of you are here for that reason."
Touting the benefits of contracting out to private companies, Homan added:
"Let the badge and guns do the badge-and-gun stuff. Everything else, let’s contract out."
Trump's Education Secretary Just Referred To 'AI' As 'A1'—And The Steak Sauce Seized The Moment
What was really odd: She had correctly referred to artificial intelligence as "AI" just seconds prior.
She said:
“You know, [on the subject of] AI development. I mean, how can we educate at the speed of light if we don’t have the best technology around, you know, to do that?"
"I heard—I think it was a letter or a report that I heard this morning, I wish I could remember the source—but there’s a school system that’s gonna start making sure that first graders, or even pre-K, have A1 teaching every year starting that far down in the grades."
“And that’s a wonderful thing. Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything. Wasn’t all that long ago that it was, ‘We’re gonna have internet in our schools. Woo!’"
"Now, OK, let’s see A1 and how can that be helpful? How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction? How can it be helpful in absorbing more information for those fast learners?"
"It can be more one-on-one directed. Those are the kinds of things and innovations that I wanna see continue to develop.”
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Why are they defunding the Department of Education again?
And not long afterward, A1 itself decided to troll McMahon via tweet after seeing an excellent marketing opportunity, writing:
"You heard her. Every school should have access to A.1."
The company's post included a graphic of A1 steak sauce that included the following text:
"Agree, best to start them early."
You can see the post and the graphic below.
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People couldn't get enough of the company's snark.
McMahon, who has no experience in education whatsoever, is best known as one of the founders—along with her husband, fellow wrestling promoter Vince McMahon—of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE).
Her nomination drew backlash from education professionals who've pointed out that McMahon has backed dismantling the very department she’s been tapped to lead. The Trump administration's efforts to defund the department via billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE initiative continue.
