ICE chief's twisted vision for deportations is beyond disturbing [View all]

Acting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons told attendees of the Border Security Expo conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday that he wants to round up human beings like Amazon deliveries.

He said that the government needs to “get better at treating this like a business” and that he wants the deportation process to work “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”

Lyons’ dehumanizing language echoes both the rhetoric of past genocidal regimes—including Nazi Germany—and President Donald Trump himself, who has referred to immigrants as “animals,” “not human,” who were “poisoning the blood” of the country.

Other Trump administration officials who attended the conference reinforced Lyons’ harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric.

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