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Gabe Ortíz Apr 29, 2024

Stephen Miller planning the Great Purge: Recruit ‘red state’ deportation army of law enforcement and National Guard to round up immigrants, rip them from their homes and community, and forcibly deport them.

https://americasvoice.org/blog/stephen-miller-planning-the-great-purge-recruit-red-state-deportation-army-to-round-up-immigrants-rip-them-from-their-homes-and-community-and-forcibly-deport-them/

Stephen Miller Planning the Great Purge: Recruit ‘Red State’ Deportation Army To Round Up Immigrants, Rip Them from Their Homes and Community, and Forcibly Deport Them - America's Voice

Fringe sheriffs who believe they’re totally unaccountable to any state or federal authority hosted a right-wing conference in Las Vegas last week, where they made explicit calls for vigilante gangs “to patrol polling stations and stop the ‘expected flood’ of ‘illegal’ immigrant voters,” WIRED reports. Of course, this is a non-existent issue: non-citizen voting is already… Continue »

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Gabe Ortíz Apr 29, 2024

A preview of this deportation army is happening right in front of our eyes.

WIRED this month: “Far-right sheriffs want a citizen army to stop ‘illegal immigrant’ voters.” Of course, widespread non-citizen voting isn't a real thing.

On sheriff “told the audience that he already had a ‘posse’ of 150 deputized citizens.”

https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/

Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Voters

Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the “expected flood” of immigrant voters.

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Gabe Ortíz Apr 29, 2024

For Miller, these sheriffs are dream recruits for his deportation army. Harassing people of color has been a lifelong mission for him, as reported by Univision in 2017. Former classmates said Miller “used to make fun of the children of Latino and Asian immigrants who did not speak English well.”

https://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/how-white-house-advisor-stephen-miller-went-from-pestering-hispanic-students-to-designing-trumps-immigration-policy

How White House advisor Stephen Miller went from pestering Hispanic students to designing Trump's immigration policy

The president's young adviser was a provocateur in his California high school, where he was hostile to Latinos and other minorities. Stephen Miller wrote in his high school yearbook: "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country."

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@tusk81
Round up people, ripping them from their homes and communities. Restrict them into special areas before transportation. Ghettos. Concentration camps. Transport them away in special transportation vehicles. Trains.

We have all seen this before. And the same as before, we are all too complacent to stop it from happening until it is very late.