"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."

William Lindsey :toad:

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2024

William Lindsey :toad:

"While the Congressional Budget Office estimates this mass deportation will cost at least $88 billion a year, another cost that is rarely mentioned is that according to Bloomberg, undocumented immigrants currently pay about $100 billion a year in taxes. Losing that income, too, will likely have to be made up with cuts from elsewhere."

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants."

~ Jem Bartholomew

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/fi

William Lindsey :toad:

What is being planned:

"[To] ederalize state national guard personnel and deploy them for immigration enforcement, including sending troops from friendly Republican-governed states into neighboring states with governors who decline to participate."

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Using the military domestically — absent any crisis remotely needed to prompt or justify such a move — would break with centuries of practice in the United States, giving a President who has promised to deploy troops against the 'enemy from within' the most powerful, and potentially unconstrained, tool in the federal arsenal."

~ Josh Kovensky

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-reminds-everyone-he-wants-us-soldiers-in-us-streets

William Lindsey :toad:

"Under Trump's plan, immigrants awaiting resolution of their cases would remain in hastily constructed 'vast holding facilities for years'.”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/we-must-build-our-own-media-ecosystem

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump’s immigration crackdown is all but certain to go beyond mass deportations. The president-elect has made clear that he intends to tear down the country’s immigration system as we know it, by ending birthright citizenship, reviving the 'Muslim Ban,' and rolling back refugee resettlement."

~ Arianna Coghill

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-mass-deportations-military-national-emergency/

Weed cat Picks

@[email protected] And this is why it's a terrible, bad, awful idea to rely on "norms" to ensure good behavior

William Lindsey :toad:

"Even 'documented' immigrants will not be safe, because Miller has declared that he will pursue the seldom-used process of 'denaturalization' to go after people who have been citizens for years or decades, based on suspicions about purported fraud on their naturalization applications. Individuals stripped of citizenship will then be subject to deportation along with Miller’s other targets."

~ Steven Lubet

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https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4992787-trump-deportation-plan-immigration/

William Lindsey :toad:

"And it’s not just Latinos. Arabs will be heavily targeted, as well as Trump-loving Filipinos."

~ kos

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/18/2287041/-Trump-voters-f-cked-around-now-they-re-about-to-find-out

William Lindsey :toad:

"And Mr. Trump said he would make Thomas Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants, his administration’s 'border czar.'”

~ Charlie Savage and Michael Gold

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/trump-military-mass-deportation.html

Carsten Franke

@wdlindsy is he going to look at Elon's papers and the reported illegal work he did while being on a student visa?

William Lindsey :toad:

"Mr. Homan told The New York Times in 2023 that he had met with Mr. Trump shortly after the now president-elect announced that he would seek office again. During that meeting, Mr. Homan said, he 'agreed to come back' in a second term and would 'help to organize and run the largest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.'”

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Urzl

@wdlindsy We shouldn't fixate so hard on the mass deportations that we forget all the other things he'll do with his "emergency" powers.

Supergrobi

@wdlindsy that all sounds like that if they get their say, a lot of Americans (those who are not millionaires) will feel a hard economic hit .
Maybe in 4 years time, people will finally be more smart in the elections then ...

William Lindsey :toad:

@gooba42 Oh, I think fixating on the mass deportations is a very good thing to do. The cruelty that is being ushered in with the plan to start those the very first day he takes office, with the military at his disposal: what an opening script for dehumanization, violence, cruelty that will affect every one of us.

Pamela

@wdlindsy What if they turn their guns around? Just a thought, many in the military hate him. Afterall, he called them sucker's and losers, then he defiled their sacred ground, Arlington.

lupus_blackfur

@wdlindsy

TBH...

Given the number of Chump voters that will find themselves "surprised" to be in these crosshairs, I unfortunately find myself in the position of not being able to work up sympathy for them.

Many were duped.

Some voted Chump anyway cause "it won't affect me".

Guess what? Surprise!!

William Lindsey :toad:

@lupus_blackfur I find myself adopting a very cold-eyed, clear-headed, sympathy-free approach, too, as I prepare for the almost unfathomable cruelty I expect to be unleashed on all of us due to the horrific choices some of us have made.

William Lindsey :toad:

@luv_wins I think once a society walks down the path of using its military to police and do violence to its citizens and targeted minority communities, violence will always proliferate, unfortunately.