Ice director wants to run deportations like 'Amazon Prime for human beings'

[MayReasonRule]

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The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he would like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wanted to see a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”. His comments were first reported by the Arizona Mirror.

Lyons was one of a series of Trump administration speakers at the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix convention center. Other speakers were Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, and the secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem.

Speakers at the expo praised Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, the 1798 law that was last used during the second world war to intern Japanese Americans. Noem promised to expand on its use to more efficiently deport immigrants. Lyons also called the act “amazing”.

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. There's a certain word for treating human beings like property.

I'm trying to put my finger on what it might be, though.

[Ping Tung]

2. Peiople being reduced to packages. What next garbage trucks?

Treated like business? Businesses are supposed to accrue profits. So, Cui Bono?

[struggle4progress]

3. "Wouldn't it be great if we could accidentally shrink-wrap folk in plastic, put them in cardboard boxes,

and misdeliver them to warehouses around the world?"