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"In short, nobody knows what is going on out there in the Everglades. ...
Even with as little as we are being told, we know what is going on. They have built an American concentration camp in Florida. It is evidence of fascism, and it must stop."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #fascism
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It’s official: Our country now has its first concentration camp
This is one of the saddest columns I have ever had the cause to write.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
Robyn Pennacchia highlights the kind of religion undergirding Republican cruelty under Trump: as she notes, yesterday speaker Mike Johnson, a Southern Baptist, told journalists,
"His presidency and his life are the fruits of divine providence."
As German Christian leaders said re: Hitler, Johnson says God has sent Trump to save the nation.
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #BigBeautifulBill
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Mike Johnson: Trump Appointed By God, Just Like Old Timey Kings!
The 'God Emperor' thing has really gone to their heads.Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
"'Religion simply as a form of worship, an empty ceremony, and not a vital principle, requiring active benevolence, justice, love and good will towards man.' I fail to see how you can shout glory to God one minute and laugh about the harsh conditions of Alligator Alcatraz the next."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #BigBeautifulBill
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"For too long this administration has presented itself as the only defender of Christianity while it engages in merely symbolic gestures like posting Bible verses or publicizing worship services in the White House. Frederick Douglass described this type of performance:"
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #BigBeautifulBill
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"Their issues with the legislation vary, but they seemingly all note that the ravenous greed at the core of this law threatens to devour the poor.
I am glad to see this pushback, but none of these policies can be called a surprise. What many feared has become a reality: treating diversity as a threat, dehumanization of migrants & policies that favor the wealthy at the expense of the poor."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #BigBeautifulBill
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"In a rare moment of Christian ecumenism, white evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Roman Catholics and Black church leaders agree that there’s no glory to be found in this legislation. They have leveled distinctively religious criticism at Mr. Trump’s signature piece of legislation."
~ Esau McCaulley
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #BigBeautifulBill
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"Amazing. New CNN poll has Trump's approval on immigration absolutely tanking. It's down to 42-58. A 19-point net swing against him on this issue in just the last few months.
Curious what those who keep saying we're in the midst of a huge societal backlash to 1965 immigration law think of this."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"The measure was approved by a vote of 627-8, with one abstention, at the UCC’s 35th biennial General Synod, which began on Friday and continued through Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. The resolution reaffirmed a prior resolution from the 31st synod, in 2017, 'On Becoming an Immigrant Welcoming Church.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."
Rachel Berkebile
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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In the US, United Church of Christ synod denounces ICE raids as "domestic terrorism" - Sight Magazine
The United Church of Christ passed a resolution denouncing what it called “domestic terrorism" by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.David Adams (Sight Magazine)
"The administration sure is working HARD to avoid accountability, because they know the shit they’re doing is criminal, that there is a chance that someday this regime will not be in charge and the rule of law will return, 'just following orders' won’t cut it, and they know what they’re doing will disgrace their family names for generations to come."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"In New York, ICE attorneys are concealing their names, something that has never happened in the history of this country."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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ICE Nazi Cruelty Report: DHS Discovers Eswatini, A New African Country To Kidnap People To
More updates to make you wish hell was real.Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
"It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of 'alligators and pythons' at the Collier-Dade facility. Common decency requires that we remember the individuals being detained are fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of distressed relatives."
~ Catholic Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"There is little doubt that as Americans learn more about what mass deportation actually entails, their opposition to it has grown. Intended in part to spur 'self-deportation,' cruel and draconian facilities like 'Alligator Alcatraz' might actually be compelling voters to leave the Republican tent."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"He noted that while the Chinese have internment camps for Uyghurs—whose treatment by China Secretary of State Marco Rubio has condemned—we learned of them through satellite imagery and hacked documents, not a CCP marketing campaign.
'They’re embarrassed by it,' he said. 'We sell merch.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"'“I think it’s the first time in human history a detention camp, a concentration camp, an internment camp is selling merch, so that’s pretty depraved,' Thomas Kennedy, a veteran immigration advocate and consultant for the Florida Immigration Coalition, told me."
~Adam Carrasquillo
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and Why Mass Deportation Is Doomed
The more voters hear about the crazy shit Trump is doing, the less they like it.Adrian Carrasquillo (The Bulwark)
"How can the administration deport people to countries they have no connection to? In late June, the supreme court cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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"A flight carrying immigrants deported from the US has landed in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, the homeland security department announced, in a move that followed the supreme court lifting limits on deporting migrants to third countries."
~ Jem Bartholomew
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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First Thing: House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash
Trump has faced growing pressure from his Maga base. Plus, inflation hits 2.7% as tariffs start to show in pricesJem Bartholomew (The Guardian)
"As one might expect, California, Florida, New York, and Texas will be hardest hit, but no state will be immune to the dislocation, inflation, shortages, and unemployment that results from a policy that manages to be as self-destructive as it is inhumane."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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"Employment in the construction sector will drop sharply: U.S.-born construction employment will fall by 861,000, and immigrant employment will fall by 1.4 million.
The deportations will eliminate half a million child care jobs."
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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"If the administration manages to deport 4 million people, the Economic Policy Institute estimates:
There will be 3.3 million fewer employed immigrants and 2.6 million fewer employed U.S.-born workers at the end of that period."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations #ICE #ConcentrationCamps #cruelty #economy #workers
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Democrats Must Lean into Defense of Immigrants
Trump’s reign of terror is rotten policyJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
#ICE declares millions of undocumented #immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #Trump #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #autocracy
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#ICE memo outlines plan to #deport #immigrants to countries where they are not #citizens
The shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
Federal #immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as 6 hours notice to countries not their own even if ofcls have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from #persecution or #torture….
#Trump #law #rendition
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When we celebrate cruelty to others, we invite cruelty for ourselves and our families: we open the door to it.
And it will visit us with karmic certainty.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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"This morning on Fox News, Tom Homan, currently serving as Border Czar under President Donald Trump’s administration, made a legally dubious and deeply concerning claim about the power of immigration enforcement agents."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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“'People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them … based [in part] on their physical appearance,' Homan said."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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"Seen in Utah.
ICE is now marching through suburban neighborhoods, conducting home raids.
Their budget is now bigger than that of the Marines, and the entire military budgets of Israel and Russia.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you."
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
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Joshua Reed Eakle (@jreakle) on Threads
Seen in Utah. ICE is now marching through suburban neighborhoods, conducting home raids. Their budget is now bigger than that of the Marines, and the entire military budgets of Israel and Russia. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.Threads
Their children and grandchildren had to live with the photos demonstrating that their parents or grandparents were really despicable human beings who could laugh as hapless others were consigned to unspeakable cruelty.
Karma has an eerie way of visiting us, and even visiting our family members down the generations.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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"How big is the nearly $30 billion allocated for hiring ICE agents? As Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted, the vote to approve the budget made ICE 'the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.'”
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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Trump's ICE Will Have $160 Billion Surge In Funding
ICE will soon be supercharged and more dangerous than ever—but it’s also vulnerableThe Big Picture
As Roger Parloff reports, the goal of the Trump administration in its criminal case and civil litigation against Abrego Garcia is not about upholding the rule of law, but rather contributing to President Trump’s political messaging.
Abrego Garcia's innocence, his wrongful detention and torture, the lies told about him: all take second place to what Trump wants.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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What Abrego’s Bail Hearing Revealed About Him—and the Trump Administration
The government’s goals in the detention hearing, the criminal case it relates to, and Abrego’s civil litigation are the same: political messaging.Default
"Autocrats know that when disappeared people reappear, truths are spoken, and forbidden histories are written, this punctures veils of silence and engineered forgetting, reminds people of the moral collapse that comes from complicity with dictatorship, and complicates the revisionist histories authoritarian states produce and circulate."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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"The ultimate goal of autocrats is to gain enough power to have a monopoly on who can tell the stories about the past and the present. And yet truth comes out in the end, despite their efforts, because such holes in the heart and the historical record have always been calls to action."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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There are lots of photos from the Nazi years in Germany, photos showing smiling Germans standing under signs adorned with swastikas and reading, "Jews are our misfortune."
After the war, those who starred in these photos celebrating cruelty — rounding up targeted people, sending them to concentration camps and, ultimately, to be murdered — had to live with this photographic evidence.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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"Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney who resigned from ICE’s legal department last month, told me he left because the mission was no longer about protecting the homeland from threats. 'It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December,' Boyd said. ...
'I had to make a moral decision,' he told me."
~ Nick Miroff
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.Nick Miroff (The Atlantic)
A loyalist bonfire burns after being set alight, featuring a model effigy of a boat containing mannequins portrayed as migrants in lifejackets, with a sign reading "Stop the Boats", during annual bonfire events marking the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, in Moygashel, Northern Ireland. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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#refugees
#ICE has become much more public in detaining #immigrants, now going into #immigration #courts & #workplaces to cuff people & take them away. This week, the bishop of San Bernardino formally excused Catholic parishioners from their weekly obligation to attend Mass following immigration detentions on 2 parish properties in the diocese, which includes #Ontario.
#law #Trump #Gestapo #DueProcess
Jay Kuo says that two reports that came out yesterday about the horrifying conditions at Alligator Auschwitz did not get the attention they deserve, so he wants to draw attention to them:
"Anna McAllister of CBS News reported on the inhumane conditions for immigrants now held inside fenced cages in the camp."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #AlligatorAuschwitz #cruelty #ConcentrationCamps
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Alligator Atrocity
An American concentration camp became operational last week, and it’s already a human rights nightmare.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
Lisa Tate, a Ventura County, California, farmer talks about what's happening on farms in that county, where fruit and vegetables are grown to supply the whole country:
“'In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone,' she said in an interview. 'If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day.'"
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #ICE #WorkForce #agriculture #FoodChain
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Ice raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’
Trump’s immigration crackdown has made many immigrant farm workers scared to go to workGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.
Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps
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