Show threadbsmall2Jun 15, 2025

🧵
> ... this crackdown is personal for Stephen Miller. As I report in my book, Hatemonger, when he was a high school student in Los Angeles, he frequently antagonized his Latino and immigrant classmates, telling them to, quote, “speak English” and to go back to their home countries. Back then, he was criticized for his views, and he has spent his career trying to punish the communities that rejected him.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/10/los_angeles_protests_trump_military_deployment

#DefendLA #JeanGuerrero #HateMongers #DefendPeople
@[email protected]

Chaos & Cruelty: Trump Deploys Thousands of Soldiers to Put Down Anti-<span class="caps">ICE</span> Protests in Los Angeles

President Trump has inflamed tensions over immigration raids in Los Angeles, which his top adviser Stephen Miller described as an insurrection. “They want protesters to react violently to distract from what is really happening, which is that families are being separated, our communities are being devastated, and the people of Los Angeles are standing up to say, 'We will not stand for this,'” says Jean Guerrero, New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda. Meanwhile, she notes Trump’s budget bill would fund a massive expansion of federal immigration enforcement and turn it into a threat to the civil rights of everyone.

Democracy Now!