"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
/4
"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
/5
"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
/6
"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
/7
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
/8
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
/9
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
/10
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