Linda Greenhouse warns us Americans: "We will regret not standing up to this venomous cruelty." She says,
"Something beyond the raw politics of immigration lies behind the venomous cruelty on display, and I think it is this:"
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/immigration-trump-ice-raids.html
"To everyone involved, from the policymakers in Washington to the masked agents on the street, undocumented individuals are 'the other,' people who not only lack legal rights as a formal matter but who stand outside the web of connection that defines human society."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/immigration-trump-ice-raids.html
Commenting on how the Trump administration ratchets up the anti-immigrant cruelty even as polls show it's wildly unpopular, Rebecca Solnit says,
"This is all a reminder that they have to be authoritarian, because what they want to do is unpopular. They have to be authoritarian because they want to override the will of the people."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. The
"Which makes being strong-willed all the more important. Also important is remembering that this is a wildly unstable situation and what happens next is at least partly up to us."
Solnit appends a salient reminder of what inevitably happens to cruel, overweening dictators and dictator wannabees, as their hubris blinds them and creates the conditions for their downfall.
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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"Trump was reelected in part because of his promise to strengthen border security, but now his administration is using attacks on immigrants to impose a police state."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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"As Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng reported Saturday in Rolling Stone, the administration is fighting to impose its will on wrongly-deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom it rendered to a terrorist prison in El Salvador, because if they are forced to back down, 'it could set a precedent that opens the floodgates to other legal challenges' to Trump’s other executive power grabs."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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"The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.
ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an 'on demand' process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport."
~ Pro Publica
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations
"Undocumented farm workers feel they’re being 'hunted like animals', they told the Guardian, as Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration.
Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews."
~ Michael Sainato
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/us-farm-workers-ice-raids
"We are now in territory so uncharted that the framing of the police militarization debate no longer works."
~ Radley Balko
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police-militarization-debate
"I think we need to come to terms with what Trump and Miller really doing here, and what is means for the country. Simply, they intend to force at least 15 million people - almost all with jobs and families - out of the country."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/inflation-is-rising-and-trumps-agenda
"They are doing it in the most inhumane and economically destructive way possible to accelerate the process, encourage 'self-deportation,' and in their minds save money."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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"The Trump administration has declared — without ever informing the American people, because what part of authoritarianism didn’t you understand? — that effective immediately, immigrants who came to the US without papers no longer have the right to a bond hearing, no matter how long they’ve been in the US. The new policy was revealed yesterday in reporting by the Washington Post."
~ Doktor Zoom
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #cruelty
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-jealous-of-el-salvador-declares
"Immigration lawyers said the new policy applies to millions of people, including folks who have been here for decades and have established families, own homes and businesses, and who haven’t broken any laws other than crossing the border without authorization (remember, kids, that’s a misdemeanor on the first offense)."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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"I believe bland coverage of Trump’s horrors has become a national sedative. We aren’t outraged about the eight people sent to South Sudan who then vanished. We now take for granted that hundreds of Venezuelans are being detained at a notorious prison in El Salvador know for inhumane conditions."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/bland-coverage-normalizes-evil-of
"Will we soon all be as blasé as these reporters about potentially thousands of our neighbors being disappeared to countries where human rights are routinely violated?
I fear that we will. I fear that we have normalized evil."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState #media
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@wdlindsy "that all" = "that the framing of the police militarization debate"
same usage as the original quote
"My personal opinion is [that the framing of the police militarization debate] changed the day George Floyd was murdered.
I'm confused; I thought the people being deported were lazy good-for-nothings who just leach off the system and are mostly criminals — how come they're showing up in IRS data evidently having paid taxes?
I know this is obvious but ...
this implies that it's working people, people who pay taxes that are being targeted.
A brilliant essay here linking America's current troubles to pre- and intra-revolutionary France & the roles played by writers and women in driving reform, along with a list of dictators' ends—non-celebratory, but oxygen-giving to those of us who stand against such men (all of them men):
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/today-is-the-original-no-kings-day-happy-bastille-day/
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