Summary
ICE has manipulated Google search results by updating timestamps on old press releases, making past immigration raids appear recent.
This tactic, first discovered by an immigration lawyer, has led to widespread fear and confusion in immigrant communities, with reports of mass arrests proving misleading.
Experts confirm ICE’s website updates triggered Google’s algorithm to rank outdated raids higher in search results.
Critics argue this strategy serves Trump’s narrative of large-scale deportations, despite little actual enforcement activity. Local officials have even issued statements refuting false rumors of ICE operations.
21st Century Fascism! Where even the police actions are a grift!
He was too lazy to do is own coup last time, just got his friends in the Kremlin to astroturf social media and goad a bunch of republican couch potatoes into storming the capiol in 2020. But Americans are domesticated so it took one person getting shot to make them run scared.