"To an important degree the absurdity of the professed belief is part of the attraction, especially since aggression is so deeply embedded in the professed belief. This issue comes up in a less extreme, though still similar, way in the various ways Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration try to justify ICE’s behavior."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #lies #disinformation
/5

"One issue we’ve discussed again and again during the Trump years is the purported belief as a form of performative aggression. It’s something essential to the Trumpian/MAGA world. You believe things that are, in factual terms, obviously absurd. But they’re also convenient. They create permission structures for all sorts of things they already want to do."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #lies #disinformation
/4

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-are-the-masks-for-exactly

“'In sum, the government’s proposed reading of the statute [i.e., the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996] would mean that, for purposes of immigration detention, the border is now everywhere,' U.S. Circuit Judge Dana Douglas, a Joe Biden appointee, wrote."

~ Adam Klasfeld

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #detention #deportations #warenhouses
/3

https://www.allrisenews.com/p/fifth-circuit-border-everywhere-detention-rtw

"Got that? Complying with the Constitution’s foundational procedural protection is a 'non-starter.' More importantly, it is an admission that the current practice of ICE of entering homes without a judicial warrant violates the Constitution."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Constitution #FourthAmendment #warrants #MaskedThugs #violence
/2

"Texas lawmakers and attorneys for immigrant families say a growing number of children at the facility are suffering in dangerous and inhumane conditions. People incarcerated at Dilley were quarantined after at least two became sick with measles last week."

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
/25

"Amid growing calls from lawmakers and human rights groups to shut down the sprawling Dilley Immigration Processing Center in southern Texas, an analysis shows the number of people incarcerated at the notorious immigration jail for children and families has nearly tripled in recent months."

~ Mike Ludwig

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
/24

https://truthout.org/articles/children-are-getting-sick-inside-ices-massive-family-jail-in-texas/

"If you somehow still aren’t convinced about the danger we are in right now, consider that on this date in 1936 — exactly 90 years ago — Nazi Germany passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority exempt from any legal review."

~ D. Earl Stephens

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
/23

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/think-ice-is-making-us-safer

"Every choice to fund authoritarianism over care is a tax on our collective wellbeing and souls—a tax that buys nothing but cruelty, instability, and the slow dismantling of American values. We’re not just losing healthcare and research funding. We’re losing any pretensions of decency."

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
/22

"Every dollar spent on Stephen Miller’s mass deportation machine is a taxpayer dollar that could be spent on something else."

Veterans, starving children, cancer research….

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #deportations #warehouses #detention
/21

https://thecause.substack.com/p/theyre-letting-cancer-patients-die