ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.
It's a scam. Like in Britain but much, much worse. Thread: bsky.app/profile/idio...
Always. Always. Always. Follow the money. Yes. The horrors and crimes against humanity committed with US taxpayers' money will continue. But that 10x? Graft, kickbacks. Trumpeeter Crime Family marches on. Even billionaires wanna be trillionaires in these tough economic times.
Cancel my generations of birthright citizenship that predates WW1 on both sides I FUCKING DARE YOU. I’m happy to be deported to Ireland. Thanks for the flight. Get me outta this rapidly declining violent shithole. Buh bye. Wont miss a goddamn thing about it here.
They won’t send you to Ireland. They’ll send you to a concentration camp.
I’m already exploring reclaiming my family’s Irish citizenship. Having an Irish passport and an international border both north and south of me to Canada I’d feel a lot better at least
if you can get citizenship anywhere get it. I would be out if I could get citzenship in norway.
If Mexico starts allowing Americans to apply for asylum I’m so fucking gone. (Nearly) Free healthcare, legal weed, a hardcore progressive president w over 90% approval, LGBT equality w no BS religious exemption rendering nondiscrimination laws useless, lower cost of living, Very safe in Mexico City
Already applied for asylum in Norway and was rejected on the basis we are still on the safe countries list
Oh honey as a blond white 4th generation born American I’m so far down the list theyd cause a full on revolt before they got to me.
The only question is, do we stop them BEFORE OR AFTER THEY BUILD THE OVENS?
They just built a death camp in Florida. Alligator Auschwitz.
Thank you! I seriously do not know what the fuck we're all waiting for. Our own spouse or kid or parent to get taken down in the street like a dog? Get armed and start fighting back. Also, set those fucking tents in Florida on fire! Burn them to the ground BEFORE they start filling them up. Fight! ✊
ICE = SA And w SecDef’s emphasis on recruiting, retaining, and promoting only straight white males whenever possible, you can guess which Nazi organization is analogous to his vision for elite units of our armed forces.
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Maybe if we don't show up and do nothing
Anyone who isn't kissing facist a$$ will be in Alligator Auschwitz before you can say "g@$ chambers"...
Let's go! ✊
Ye, they’re going to start rounding up everyone who’s not a republican. And those voting rolls in closed primaries we’re required to register for? DOJ is already suing Orange County in CA for declining to give them unredacted lists.
Im completely non violent, never been violent in my 49 years but if I witnessed these kidnappings I’d do anything I could to stop them & you should all do too, you’re allowed guns ffs It’s TERRORISM
They plan to start kidnapping and disappearing political opponents.
Well, T already said to Bukele he’s ‘moving on to the homegrowns,’ which obviously means persecuting legal residents and citizens he dislikes.
If you’re a Davos level billionaire then you know the plan. Global warming and pollution are a threat to your billionaire kids. Exterminate the lower classes. Choose the people you wish to serve you and eradicate the rest. The means are justified by the end.
I'm wondering how they'll increase numbers. They already have trouble recruiting. Fascism just isn't as popular as it appears.
Sadly, there is great appetite for such jobs in the poor central rural areas of America
Border Patrol can't even fill its ranks and has been struggling for a very long time. Nobody wants to be a fascist foot soldier. Sure they'll cheer it on in the abstract. But they don't want to be pointing a gun at a granny. timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...
Sure, and rural areas make up a minority of the country, they just own larger plots more secluded, less people per acre. But in districting these are used to sway outcomes.
TL;DR paper tiger. They do not have enough folks in support to sustain it, that's why they are acting quickly.
Is "immigration" incarceration a way to creat a cheap labor force?
They voted for Chump because they thought tax money was going to welfare for immigrants. How much tax money is going to immigrants now?
it’s an army to control civilian populations
MORALLY WRONG. BUT as Trump/GOP plan to do & force US Taxpayers to PAY-these⁉️ need answers. WHO will profit? WHO will rake in the millions & millions of tax-payer dollars Trump/GOP will 'award' (or should that be reward to campaign donors?) for sub-standard building contractors/materials/providers?
We’re so ruined.
Then you get off your ass and do some kinetic direct action.
May now we can have our putsch?
I think that money will be used for "you ain't seen nothin' yet".
"Home-growns are next" - Trump in the Oval Office to fellow authoritarian Bukele.
Trump's plans to expand the programme out to "Homegrowns" will never reach fruition without the additional funding though.
Next: children of military parents born abroad on base, denaturalizing folks they disagree with.
Before they detain you, I think they'll take people in this order: NOT saying they should. Just predicting who's next. The homeless. (bonus: solves the housing problem. Makes homeless be a source of income for the detainers.) The elderly. (bonus: solves huge chunk of healthcare costs.)
After that, it's anybody's guess: Muslims? Those pesky Canadians? :)
Those pesky women? (Keep nattering on about abortion rights. Disrespectful to inches & republicans. And they like CATS!!)
Damn the spell checker! I said Incels, not inches.
Detention of people with autism is on the RFK Jr. death list as their absence will indicate MAHA cured Autism.
Eeeek! There's got to be *some* line they won't cross. ?
We have yet to locate the line that will not be crossed
Obscene
Follow the money, because it’s going straight into someone’s pocket.
@papst-ny.bsky.social
That rather than food or providing healthcare is pure sadistic. No one who is not extremely wealthy should ever vote for Republicans ever in life again. This just breaks my 💔
Don’t forget the massive opportunity for grift.
It's really difficult and maybe even impossible to Deport everybody. This money will not achieve what they want and more than likely - ICE will become a giant slush fund to private companies and/or corrupt government officials.
Omg. That's absurd and disgusting. Fuckere
Also, where are they going to find all the extra needed workers to staff ICE and the prisons?
I'm sure they can find some Hilfwillige among their detainees to staff the prisons.
There are a lot of people making a lot of money off of these detentions already. It is all being farmed put to private companies and it will be people with zero experience who need work.
Also, who is going to build the prisons? Pretty soon they’ll be adopting the slogan “work will set you free.”
So I'm guessing this is what Trump wants for all of us that oppose him? Who remembers this from 2020?
Next you'll see States lose their ability to police themselves when a national Police agency is developed and implemented across the United States. Just one more domino. Trump will announce that a new federal police agency will be developed which will absorb state and city agencies.
I'm an Army veteran and am horrified that I feel the need to be sure to always have my military ID on me now, even while just walking my dog. This is what America being great again is, I guess.
#HeisenGreat , it as great or non great as any speaker needs it to be or not be at any give moment or moments (nonconsecutive).
The ICE Thugs will just tell you your military ID is "fake"...and off you go to a South Suden 3rd world prison for life...
Or as soon as you hand them over for inspection the papers will suddenly vanish into a pocket never to be seen again. When asked, the ICE officers will claim they were never there in the first place.
itd be more effective if you were armed & your neighborhood was too. rapid ice response networks have been extremely effective and would be doubly so if ice were confronted w equally armed opponents who stand up for total liberation and death to fascism. this is nazi germany, start acting like it
And having a military ID— or even a Purple Heart— is no guarantee against being deported
I really never thought "your papers, show us your papers" would be a thing here. But, here we are.
I mean it definitely has been before
I could've sworn Republicans were way against that sorta thing but guess not
They only love the concept of the military and veterans. They don't like the after effects. Hey we are still here, we, who fought in YOUR wars, we are still here. They hate that. Fuck every single republican.
very similar to their attitude towards fetuses
See! The GOP has values. Just really shitty ones.
People should have understood that Nixon was NOT an aberration. Since the late 1800s (I make exceptions for T. Roosevelt & Eisenhower) they've been lapdogs of the rich, with no real moral code. They care nothing for ordinary people.
Nixon was a saint compared to these sociopathic fascists. .
. . . and still a shitty person. Goes to show how despicable modern Repubs are. It's really just mask-off stuff, they'll pretty much always been this horrible. Racist, sadistic, misogynistic, ensconced in hierarchies w them at the top that they'll defend with bullets if necessary
They've never, ever been against that sort of thing. Not once, not ever.
Don't be silly, they're skipping that step 😐
With around 5% of all US veterans not being US citizens we are going to likey see many detained/deported/renditioned.
ICEblock app - spread the word!
1. Doesn't seem available for Android 2. How does it work?
Looks like Apple for now: ICEBlock - See Something, Tap Something share.google/QSZq02l7KRcy...
Damn.
Political prisoners, anyone who disagrees
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Combine that with this new national data base and they are building their own secret police like the Stasi or KGB apple.news/AoeX4W3-MRUy...
Next will be “free speech “ violations
This is insane. Let’s cut Medicare and spend money on this.
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Exactly! One has to wonder why they need additional "holding facilities" built, that look not unlike a certain series of death camps, who is profiting from their being built, and where all these criminals are suddenly coming from. Also, why are the convicted criminals in charge?
If no one listens and there's no due process, they could snatch anyone, send them to another country to make their quota and there's absolutely nothing we could do from that other country Something tells me we also wouldn't have access to our assets - gov't would seize them?
not just to another country, to incarceration for life in another country
LAST CHANCE TO SPEAK UP Fuck these fascists - Do not comply. Everyone in red states must bombard their senators now to Vote NO on this vile bill!! There's still time to pressure Senators on socials. Focus on Tillis, Paul, Collins, Murkowski, Johnson, Lee, and Scott. 🇺🇸✊✊🇺🇸
THERE WERE NEVER 20 MILLION ILLEGAL MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. IT WAS ALL A LIE TO SCARE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR TRUMP.
Since I've paid attention ( 25 years? 30?) there have been between 10 - 12 million undocumented people living in the US. It's never been close to 20 million. Because they're too chickenshit to go after rapists and murderers, they're going after vital workers. It's lose-lose-lose.
You are right. Immigration keeps us with a vital, growing society. WE NEED IMMIGRANTS.
You do notice they dont mess with gangs. There’s a reason.
They can try. I have guns.
They're Hitler's brown shirts and are going to terrorize voting stations under the pretext of "voter integrity."
Donors raking in those contracts in 40g garbage drums
which we'll have to borrow if anybody will lend us the money, because our credit rating is taking a beating.
The concentration camp business is going to be booming!
The extra money will go to make more Kristi Noem KKK porn.
Kind of a big deal! They won't need no National Guard or Marines!
For "just" a couple billion, they could up the capacity of the immigration judges, so folks can stay legally. Everyone but crooks would win.
Don't forget the kickback money the mobster-in-chief gets after WE FUND these billions to kidnap, terrorize, detain, & deport all of these hundreds of thousands of human beings. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
En facto, If you're here complaining about our new police state you're just a somewhat lower priority. Chinga la Migra.
In just 4 months the ‘red line’ has been moved back again and again. At some point people will realize they’re being backed against a wall… I can’t see it’ll be business as usual for anyone. Informal / wildcat strikes, a market crash, daily mass protests. I don’t see it ending well for them.
Working for ICE is a shit job that will get you ostracized in much of the country. Hiring to fill that many positions is going to be impossible without deputizing racist wingnut groups like the Proud Boys, so my guess is that’s what they are going to do.
or destroying the economy ...
What they've already done* *FTFY
I’m sure they already have do.
Why would he stop at deputizing them? He'll probably just hire them as feds.
Anyone critical of the regime
Musk has the data. Palantir parses it and links to accounts, addresses, phone numbers, etc. ICE is sent.
You could swing entire elections by removing enough democrats from certain precincts and districts. Imagine.
I don't know wtf to do. I want to carry something.
Those big bonuses can buy a whole lotta crimin'...
exactly
Prison slave labor for big Corps. Walmark, Kruger, Mcdonalds, coke are but a few using it now. 10 cents an hour and no benefits or rights.
My husband and I were talking about just this this evening. Do you have sources for this? We are interested to learn more. But we agree that that must be the plan, just like the use of prison populations. Ultimately helping their billionaire friends get even cheaper labor.
google Prison labor. Lots of articles apnews.com/article/pris...
1.2 Million people are currently incarcerated in state and federal prisons, approximately two-thirds are employed in the prison system and produce nearly $11 billion worth of goods and services each year, but earn just 13 to 52 cents per hour on average www.proskauer.com/blog/the-rea....
Don't feed the boys.
you and your husband should arm up, along with everyone you can find around you who agrees that becoming a slave (as legal under the 13th ammendment) and or sent to a concentration camp to die, and that no person on earth deserves such a fate. ice will not stop if theyre sued, nor if asked nicely
I'm holding out hope that the military will remember the 'domestic enemies' part of their oath before it's too late.
Don't trust the military to smarten up. They're 100% complicit.
Precisely.
I figure they will be coming for me in the next couple of years, if not sooner. I've dared to phone my conmen and take part in demonstrations.
exactly. When they run out of 'immigrants' they are totally coming after us next. We will be the 'nasty, evil people' who kept him from 'finding all the bad people'... So after they run out of easy pickings.. then they will start on 'protestors' and 'Democrats'.
then people wearing glasses, just like the Khmer Rouge
That's when they stop coming home from raids
Maga-republicans promissed us "no more elections". Detaining political opponents would be the way to reach that goal.
Yup.
Because they lied about the numbers of illegals.
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And we're just basically watching centrists switch gears because the data they now have is useless in real time with how emotionally-charged this entire, disasterous and ill-informed news cycle has been, based entirely on fear.
Gutting all valuable information centers like public education just to keep the disasterous American War Machine going for another four years to own the phantoms that will never appear. This is just the same excess military spending problem from two decades ago.
They divide us by party, so we don’t unite by class. Two sides to every issue, while they loot the vault. It’s not left vs. right—it’s 92% vs. the elite. We see the game now. No more politics as usual.
Don’t for Americans for Prosperity
💯 Question is, why have parties at all? Why not run for the people, not the party? Doesn't matter how great your business acumen is, there is no way you should be rewarded with billions while people in your country can't afford food, housing or medical care. Money isn't Evil. The LOVE of money is.
You got this. Money corrupts. Like heroin. It takes over. No real person would vote yes to school shootings, cancer promotion, starving the sick and elderly. Wealth is a disease.
And our leaders are just as much in love with money as are the billionaires who adore flaunting their assets. It's time we stopped the robbery. It's beyond time to reinvent our country from top to bottom. It's time society focused interest on working for everybody - especially those at the bottom.
They need it most. Good people must rise to protect those in society who need it most and by doing so we also protect ourselves - all from a government that has chosen to target us with the very assets they used our money to pay for. Gee, what's wrong with this picture? I have two protests tomorrow.
Thank you. Let's take it all back and fix this mess.
The biggest lie always has been that they only wanted to round up violent criminals. That is not at all the plan, and we’ve already seen ample evidence of that. The plan is ethnic cleansing: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Follow the money! This is not about immigration, it’s a scheme to make some people very rich! True immigration policy would send ppl back to their countries & be done. Keeping them caged is an excuse for private companies to make money & probably with a percentage to trump!
Maybe. Probably not.
Billions and billions more for ICE while squeezing a budget bill through Congress that will cut Medicaid, kick people off health care, and increase the national debt by $1.7 trillion. This is your Trump regime hard at work, making America as white as possible.
if Trump really wants me to leave, he gonna have to buy my citizenship. I believe to going rate is $5million?
the proposed ICE budget is larger than the one for the Marine Corps. Think about that.
Are the various gangs okay with the ICE and cosplayers snooping around in their hoods?
Most likely a lot of it will be wasted. It costs more money to hire people who don't ask questions and commit crimes upon request. I suspect they are going to reduce the number of undocumented drastically causing a lot of pain and suffering. Food will not get picked and other jobs won't get done.
I honestly do not like the idea of guest workers. I'd far rather have those who are more American than not, or who have committed the majority of their lives to this country and do contribute to be given a chance at citizenship.
On a side note, I'd expect more automation of farming and such. They already do a lot, but when they suddenly have to pay say $10 an hour more to get people, well it suddenly becomes cheaper to buy more machines, at least some of the time.
ICE is going to hire enough new agents so they can go door to door in every neighborhood and ask "show me your papers" ...
When the propaganda says millions are pouring in illegally, they need to produce big numbers to show ‘progress.’ They created the fake info problem and now innocent people have to suffer for them to save face.
& don't Forget for Trump from implementing the Insurrection Act to detain you -to Prevent you from voting, & you'll be released soon after that is 'discovered' that Trump & the Republican's had won hands down.
Although I am sure this is not the specific reason they had in mind, this is where the 2nd Amendment becomes less distorted.
Their hiring targets for b.o.y. and next 4 years means they will be recruiting any red-state high school drop out who has a Punisher sticker on their pick up truck.
Anyone thinks ice will go away when all the immigrants are gone are in for rude shock. We're witnessing the birth of a secret police force.
Next is Iranians, then Muslims, then protestors and media shining the light on what is going on. White people keeping their mouths shut, or spreading their propaganda on social media will be the only ones left outside the prisons.
Lots of $$ invested in those mega prisons and concentration camps. They need bodies to fill them up. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Great. They should come get me before work tomorrow.
Think of all the good you could do on the world with 45 billion dollars.
If no one has legal status anymore, everyone gets deported. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
There’s no question they’ll cast a broader net and reel in a more diverse set of people, many or most of them citizens. Like me, an 80 yo white man. I’m staying away from the US for the foreseeable future.
They're going to start targeting liberals; they'll use public voting records and start by rounding up everyone who's voted in every election since 2016 but not for Trump.
Yep. That's how they'll 'win' the next election.
“No” to HUGE bonuses for ICE: 1) Call your Senators to vote “NO” on the bill 2) read Senate bill/summary & find offensive section #’s 3) CALL your House Representative & urge to amend/delete sections www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Building blocks for Posee Comitatus?
Breathe easy . . . for a while. Apparently Musk’s been moved further up on Trump’s hit list.
Overfunding a militarized police state that incarcerates millions while kicking millions off of health care seems like a good recipe for revolution.
I agree but I worry that the fascists and their supporters have many more military style weapons than the sensible majority
While cutting Medicaid, SNAP, the EPA, the National Parks, scientific research of all sorts, USAID,
I figure once they remove birthright citizenship I’ll have about 3 years before I’m stripped of citizenship & hauled to a reeducation camp never to return
They intend to round up every single undocumented worker -- criminal record or no -- and then start on naturalized citizens whose naturalizations have been undone by Rubio. Between that and blocking entrants from non-white countries, they'll be well on the road to ethnically cleansing the U.S.
Feel free to criticize my math, but there are 56,000 people detained right now and by my calculation, this comes out to almost $1.2 million per person.
It will cost roughy $88 billion to deport 1 million immigrants. That's per year. Multipy that out using the 15 million they say are illegals and we start to run into astronomical numbers.
Geo Group private ICE facilities, the ACLU rep said cost $6m per detainee, but there is no money for SNAP and medicaid. youtu.be/kkbSzZq0d8E?...
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Assholes
n.b. these figures do NOT include the 45,000,000,000 for detention if history is any guide (cf. 'boondoggle on the border'), they will be back asking for more, so the current figures are preliminary/aspirational (and come with no heightened oversight in the law, i.e.inspector general funding)
full disclosure - these figures are not "souped up" or "plainly exaggerated" and you can see them here for yourself in the published copy of the Big Nasty Bill. Just search on Title IX. www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
That ROI is ass
human lives getting fucking ratioed
you're right ICE is basically ready to IPO
Please make vavailable an emoji that expresses annoyance not just a heart! How can you heart a tragedy?
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No one will be left 🤬🤷♀️
Brown shirts in waiting
Dumb question, but have they detained any gang members and murderers…yet?
Yes. Denying immigrants due process was a wedge to enable this. My words in the LA Times earlier this month: "It behooves us to demand that all people receive equal protection under the law, and to call out monstrifying narratives that, in the end, dehumanize us all." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.” That's INSANE.
Nuremberg trials used Nazi impeccable record keeping against them. Notice in this repeat of history they don't know who is where and can't find people. They aren't keeping records or 'evidence'. They are literally disappearing people.
No paper trail means no reasonable method to find the (inevitable) mass graves.
oh, a concentration camp. i know, when i see one. as a german i've seen this in history-lessons and historical sites.
They are funding the Stazi. The GOP is doing exactly what the conservative party did in Germany in the 1930s.
Get hired by ICE. Destroy it from within.
There will be resistance.
And yet, we haven't seen them actually go after any real criminals, or gangs. Can they not locate them?
BULLSHIT!!!
You make an interesting argument for the bill in a sad way.
while letting MS-13 go free In exchange for helping President Trump carry out his deportation agenda, the United States paid El Salvador millions of dollars, adding an important sweetener at Mr. Bukele’s request: the return of key MS-13 leaders in American custody. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
If ICE agents can cry from their feelings being hurt for being called out for being the monsters they are, they'll cry into their millions in annual salary and performative bonuses.
Yep. Trump's Gestapo.
#2/ was free to go; she asked for her cash back of little over 1K. They said no, b/c she was SUSPECTED of a crime - this is all they want - ' I your physical money' - they even asked for more cash and they would take her off the lists - perm - for a fee of 10K.
i know my cousin lives in the US, and she was taking a flight to LAX. They immediately known she was a 🇨🇦 citizen w/ a green card for the last 10 yrs. Her children are 🇺🇸/🇨🇦. She was pulled aside & stripped searched by male , who had preformed sexual prohibited acts on her person. After, they said she
It’s terrifying, Heather. I wish I knew what to do.
Right now, call Collins. (202) 224-2523. Ask them to explain how this bill helps anyone in Maine. Demand she vote No on raising the deficit, funding a secret police and killing people.
I just called her office.
Thank you so much! 💙 Did they have an explanation?
I left a detailed message with all my contact info
No answer as per par with her office.
They don't answer their phones? Wow. Okay, that's something to keep for the 2026 elections.
I have called her numerous times over the years she never responds or answers her phone. Olympia Snow always did.
Good morning Heather.
or as I call them ICE THUGS. Also I saw a video last night saying that there is record that bounty hunters are being offered a lot of money to capture these people...they are NOT employees, but contracted, and getting much more than the allotted $--with the inhumanity of trump,I don't doubt it.
I bet, for any gov't official is allowed to confiscate UR money for 'suspecting' U have other than honest means. Most of the cases I heard about after them being detained- they came out poorer after being searched & released -& 'ICE' said we found no probable cause...but we believe you are a crim
Never trust any of the excuses this administration uses to justify their inhumane and liberty destroying actions. I just assume trump is lying if not about the details, the "so called benefit for the American people" he isn't doing anything FOR us, he is doing it TO us.
#3/ I have heard many US citizens have found a safe, welcoming haven in Costa Rica. Every American I have read about, free health care, no guns, no violence. they welcome US citizens there.
every1 should know: Their Transit bank# #2/ their acct # & info about bank 2 bank transfers - so U will take out what you need & U R staying w/ friends/ family else they think U have $. keep to poor much as possible. Next, I can see this as a prelude to home invasions.
This is all about, every1 of his goons in airports, border crossings is 2 see how much physical actual money U have. This is why, It looks everyone 2 be of means, I suggest traveling w/ little $10or/less just to piss them off, and making arrangements. Every1 should know their branch#/acct#
Stay strapped
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov Please get this out if the awful bill!
They effectively won that argument, just by being the a-holes w guns roaming around and rounding people up
It’s a budget for a secret police. ICE doesn’t have to operate under the same constraints as regular law enforcement which has been bad enough.
Obama and then Biden through proper channels got rid of most criminals. Not enough of them left for Trump to surpass their numbers so he's grabbing anyone he can. To Trump, the numbers are a pissing contest against Obama and Biden.
A People with nothing left to lose in a country full of guns.
Picture perfect Manchurian Candidate.
It appears only Republicans have guns. I haven't seen any Democrats raise any kind of weapon so they must not have any. I could be wrong but.....
I’m 5th gen Swede, can they deport me to Sweden? Please?
Not a chance. Jungle prison in a swamp somewhere.
Obscene and horrifying
And a fat budget for bounty hunters aka J6ers
They'll be policing the polling stations in the midterms, making sure that no-one votes. Mark my words!
They also can't detain all the people they're rounding up in legally humane conditions, nor process them all in any reasonable length of time (even when they cheat on the process).
I believe 47 wants to incarcerate every person who has posted, campaigned, or publicly opposed him.
Or given any kind of even remotely neutral coverage to opponents.
To wit: Manbaby Trump throwing a temper tantrum because his opponent looked good in an interview. apnews.com/article/trum...
Suffering mental anguish when your opponent outclasses and outshines you in every way is part of a healthy campaign. The impulse to punish the opponent, the interviewer, and the news org that aired the piece is unhealthy. It's fascist and betrays deep immaturity and an inability to learn / improve
This is complicated by the fact that CBS's parent company is trying to get federal approval for a big merger, meaning that Trump can/will abuse his position for extortion.
I think that's a given....no dictator will countenance an opposition
then arm the fuck up and start organizing decentralized horizontal resistance networks to *attack* these fascists this is nazi germany, start acting like it
Trump will absolutely try. They are already looking into mass denaturalizations as an excuse to disappear the victims to foreign gulags
That’s where he’s heading. He’s not been quiet about it either.
"I call them homegrown criminals...We are looking into it, and we want to do it. I would love to do that." (4/15/25)
It's a great Pearl Jam song
And Trump is helping them out pretty hard by revoking all kinds of legal status on which people are in the US.
Who directly established these stupid quotas anyway?
Stephen Himmler. I mean Miller.
That figures. 😡🤮😡🤮
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They have cut the NOAA budgets so they won’t forecast ICEy conditions.
Existing *total* of sworn law enforcement officers in US at Fed, State and (largely) local levels = 800k . Trump now wants 100k more just for ICE? Apparently answerable only to him? Doesn’t add up. Unless…
Where are they even recruiting all those people from? Especially if they’re deporting most of the population, who’s even left? Will they have to start deporting themselves?
Keep in mind peak Klan membership in the 1920’s was est 4 million. No shortage of recruits. They’ll be at every voting site. Masked, armed, checking ID’s and discouraging electoral participation/suppressing the vote.
That was literally 100 years ago, a lot has happened since then
I’d like to think so, but in terms of bad human behaviors like tribalism, racism, aggression, eugenics, fear, violence and exploitation, one century is the blink of an eye.
The thing is, ICE and border security are so vastly unpopular that even notoriously bigoted cops and other law enforcement groups look down on them. And this has, if anything, gotten even worse recently. It does not look like it’ll be a popular job even among bigots. It’s bottom-feeder work.
So is rejecting insurance claims, coming up with ways to cut costs in acquired companies, creating content to maximize clicks, advertising gambling, and all kinds of work that people do if paid well enough.
None of those jobs involve your wife dumping you and everyone in your family, town, and entire state hating you and ostracizing you Also if you think THIS administration is going to pay THAT many people “enough,” then lol The owners of for-profit prisons will get the big money, the minions won’t.
I get that, but what other jobs will there be?
There ya go maggot voters Spending trillions to starve our children, deny the unwealthy of healthcare and allow anyone the racist don't like to be tortured . Next up? YOU
people in this country are standing up for their migrant brothers and sisters all of us together can and should protect these people as much as possible if they get the budget through just means on the ground we have to work a little harder a little bit smarter but we will beat them rest assured
I think they're asking for a civil war in this country that they clearly are starting we will protect people who come here to work and add the beauty to our nation such diversity we don't want to be white Christian we want to remain the rainbow that we are and we are saying so
Anything that needs to be done QUICKLY, on a DEADLINE, to meet a QUOTA, or because Trump TOLD THEM TO, WILL DEFINITELY be BAD for the American people!!!!!
I think it's a slush fund.
makes sense, they've had so much trouble going after social security that I guess this is their alternative
Everyone should call your representatives and ask: "When will I be sent to Alligator Alcatraz"? I think I will start asking that each time I call.
Nah, they think Alcatraz is cool. We need to call it what it really is, Alligator Auschwitz. (republicans also think Auschwitz is cool, but they can't say that out loud. Yet.)
Why do you have to shit on the DDR? They're Nazis, they identity as Nazis, they think Hitler was based - the very antithesis of the DDR who did police a post-nazi society. Wake the fuck up!
lol. why shit on the ddr? i am sure you’re a communist, but my post has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with repressive authoritarian police states. yes, they’re nazis, but ice has more parallels with stasi than ss or gestapo, that’s my point. and the ddr was shit too, you disagree?
Yes, I disagree. The differences couldn't be greater. The Gestapo, a branch of the SS, literally rounded people up for nothing more than being born. The Stasi, if anything, was tasked with keeping Nazis under control - the stated reason for NATO.
the stasi wasn’t created to “keep nazis under control.” that’s old east german propaganda. their real mission was spying on and repressing their own people. they arrested some ex-nazis early on, but also worked with them when useful. calling them anti-nazi is just revisionism.
Thanks, I needed something to laugh at!
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I'm familiar. They didn't do anything our government doesn't also do, except they did it for a good cause unlike our government. If you condemn them that I'd like to read your essay on your criticism of the US government and its internal spy apparatus.
show me one credible historian who thinks stasi operated for “a good cause”
Ooh, let's consult the bourgeois "experts"!
Liberals love to ignore context when it doesn't serve their bias.
45 billion? Fucking Hell, that’s two thirds of the UK’s defence budget. And for a normal country, we spend a lot on defence.
Deport that piece of shit Stephen Miller
Homegrown!
As many "others" as they can get away with. Who counts as "other" is subject to their whimsy.
Yep and they will work their way through the folks they hate the most until straight white MAGA males are the only ones left not held in cages.
Unless they're liberals or protestors, or made fun of someone on X. No one is safe.
That budget total is roughly the same magnitude as the US Marine Corps. That’s no immigration policing force. It’s a secret private army.
this is nazi germany, start acting like it in response. arm the fuck up and organize decentralized horizontal resistance networks
I don't believe anyone is safe from ICE. I am a senior citizen, born in Louisiana to parents also born in Louisiana, as were their parents. Last night, after reading about ICE's ongoing brutality, I placed my passport card in my wallet next to my Real ID driver's license.
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they will visit a town near you and me that is for sure
So I guess the plan for labor is slaves in ICE detention?
Just in time as the number of imprisoned people, who would have to work for almost nothing, is declining… 🤔 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Yep. That was always the plan. They didn't empty the for profit prisons of migrants to KEEP them empty.
Whoever they fucking want
A daily reminder that ICE can only do this if we let them. We are millions
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Tourism: Another economic sector killed by trump
Wow!! It's a wonder every country doesn't have a flashing red "Don't visit America!" message for travelers on their websites. Hopefully the word gets out before more people from other countries are detained here!
End the Reich.
They have already admitted that the criminals, rapists, and murderers are more difficult to track and apprehend. They're also far less numerous and with the pressure to fulfill quotas are now going after all the low-hanging fruit.
Citizens. More of them, I should say. Since they’re already rounding up citizens. Under the age of ten, with cancer.
Yep, I’m definitely going to be on their list. Fuck ‘em, come and get me! ✊🏼
Some of us liberals are armed. This will not end like they think it will.
I would claim more than some. Those left of center don’t feel the need to have a dick waving contest with our guns though.
Absolutely. We don’t make our tools the basis of our identity.
That’s an anbsolutely *insane* budget for an extralegal detainment force.
Whomever is next on the list, and then the next and so on
People need to stop paying taxes so the trump regime can’t waste it on things most Americans don’t support.
Stop this budget bill CALL your senators You, your children, grandchildren, and your aging parents are depending on YOU
Stop this budget bill CALL your senators You, your children, grandchildren, and your aging parents are depending on YOU
Isn't it just as likely they're just laundering money to the private prison industry?
Congrats america, your new industry your president created is just human trafficking, I wonder where he learned that from? Certainly nobody in his personal sphere or anyone he pardoned would do such a thing.
Sorry to break it to them, but 21 million illegals are NOT in the US. And if you were serious about finding "illegals," you'd raid corporate farms like Dole, meat processing plants like Purdue, and Tyson as corporate foods employ the highest number of illegals.
trump has flip-flopped on that. He was in favor of the workers being deported, then sympathetic to their exploitative employers, then focused again on the target of 3,000 a day and in favor of rounding them up. only by grabbing valuable workers can they hit that number. They don't go after gangs.
Donald is under pressure from the architects of Project 2025. His poll numbers on immigration are tanking, yet he still pushes on. The only thing that matters to them are the agenda, Donnys a tool.How many can we check off?
If they really wanted to stop illegal migrants they’d arrest the employers who gave them jobs and give them long prison sentences. That would immediately solve it. But it’s not about migrants, it’s about wanting a white Christian theocracy.
Yeah -These Good Ol’ Boy Corporations are part of the MAGA support system. They’ll bend to the breaking point & grease Trumps palm as long as their monopolies are protected. They’ll sacrifice a percentage of their undocumented’s to make the Orange Sack-o-Guts look good. Then get exemptions.💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
they’re funding his brownshirt army
Gestapo!
Celebrate July 4th! What is there to celebrate? The fascist takeover of our government? Democrats are the only thing standing in the way of Conservatives' plan to rewrite history, destroy our institutions and principles of diversity and inclusion, control what Americans read and how they think!
Ice should get $0 so they can't pay the agents and they'll go looking for other jobs.
Communist China is laughing in delight.
ICE will be hanging out at the polls, armed and masked. That’s what this money is for.
While overused, my gut reaction is 'so you think we're still going to be voting?'
Bingo. They will stop brown people from voting and hold them until after the election.
Yep.
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