Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s shared by Jacob Grier

@Jake · Feb 22

Very relevant to my interests: on the parallels between incompetent and violent Prohibition enforcement of the past and ICE today.

Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s

Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.

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Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s - shared by Jacob Grier - Seabird