"This month alone, four people died in immigration detention over the span of four days. December 12. December 14 — twice. December 15. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a pattern. ...
Thirty people — THIRTY — have died in ICE custody in 2025 alone; the highest number since 2004."
~ Michael Cohen
"This month alone, four people died in immigration detention over the span of four days. December 12. December 14 — twice. December 15. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a pattern. ...
Thirty people — THIRTY — have died in ICE custody in 2025 alone; the highest number since 2004."
~ Michael Cohen
"Despite the good news, I continue to be deeply alarmed by the attitudes of white Christians generally and white evangelical Protestants in particular. I continue to be struck, as a social scientists, that it has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/1
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/ice-and-empty-mangers-new-polling
"One key difference between 1930s Germany and 2020s USA is that 1930s Germany didn't have 90 years of books, movies, and documentaries warning it about 1930s Germany."
~ Tom Lennon
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazis
/16
"52% of white evangelicals favor the U.S. government deporting undocumented immigrants to foreign prisons in El Salvador, Rwanda, or Libya without allowing them to challenge their deportation in court, compared to 33% of the public."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/6
"57% of white evangelicals agree that the federal government should detain immigrants who are in the country illegally in internment camps until they can be deported, compared to 33% of the public.
Favor sending undocumented immigrants to foreign prisons without due process."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/5
"Favor arresting undocumented immigrants with no criminal record. 57% of white evangelicals favor arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants who have resided in the United States with no criminal record, compared to 33% of the public.
Favor placing undocumented immigrants in internment camps."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/4
"Approve of masked ICE agents. 62% of white evangelicals agree that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers should be allowed to conceal their identity with masks or use unmarked vehicles when arresting people, compared to 38% of the public."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/3
"Despite the good news, I continue to be deeply alarmed by the attitudes of white Christians generally and white evangelical Protestants in particular. I continue to be struck, as a social scientists, that it has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/1
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/ice-and-empty-mangers-new-polling
"Under the sway of Trump’s dehumanizing, racist rhetoric about immigrants, here’s a sampling of the lows to which white evangelical attitudes about undocumented immigrants have sunk today:
Confident in ICE. 62% of white evangelicals say they have a great deal or some confidence in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as ICE, compared to 42% of the public."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/2
"Despite the good news, I continue to be deeply alarmed by the attitudes of white Christians generally and white evangelical Protestants in particular. I continue to be struck, as a social scientists, that it has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #MaskedThugs
/1
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/ice-and-empty-mangers-new-polling
"One key difference between 1930s Germany and 2020s USA is that 1930s Germany didn't have 90 years of books, movies, and documentaries warning it about 1930s Germany."
~ Tom Lennon
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazis
/16
"As CNN reported, 'People throughout Charlotte were seen Monday using many of the tactics employed in Chicago—including watching for raids, blowing warning whistles and carrying signs advising people of their rights.' Some businesses closed their doors to prevent CBP from targeting customers and employees;"
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Charlotte #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #solidarity #resistance
/1
"But the reality is that America has become less religious — about 28% of Americans claim no religion — because white Americans are less religious."
"Bovino and his goon squad have moved on to Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, and other Democratic cities in North Carolina. They’re using the same tactics. One of the incidents in this story is a Kavanaugh Stop: '… an agent smashed in the window of a US citizen’s truck and the man, who is Hispanic, was temporarily detained.'”
~ Ed Walker
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #SupremeCourt #KavanaughStops
/9
"'one laundromat owner took to locking the doors 'while customers are inside in an attempt to keep them safe.'
Most impressively, tens of thousands of students stayed out of class to register their objections to the federal invasion. ...
Just as immigration dragnets and racial profiling in Los Angeles emptied workplaces, Charlotte’s construction sites were soon deserted."
#Trump #Charlotte #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #solidarity #resistance
/2
"Wherever Trump attacks the lifeblood of cities—hardworking immigrants—economic chaos and deprivation follow.
If Trump’s vicious assault on Charlotte and other North Carolina cities was meant to intimidate locals or alienate them from migrant neighbors, his operation backfired spectacularly. Charlotte coalesced around immigrants and vigorously protested the lawless regime. The cameras again captured rogue agents abusing their power."
"As CNN reported, 'People throughout Charlotte were seen Monday using many of the tactics employed in Chicago—including watching for raids, blowing warning whistles and carrying signs advising people of their rights.' Some businesses closed their doors to prevent CBP from targeting customers and employees;"
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Charlotte #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #solidarity #resistance
/1
"'one laundromat owner took to locking the doors 'while customers are inside in an attempt to keep them safe.'
Most impressively, tens of thousands of students stayed out of class to register their objections to the federal invasion. ...
Just as immigration dragnets and racial profiling in Los Angeles emptied workplaces, Charlotte’s construction sites were soon deserted."
#Trump #Charlotte #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #solidarity #resistance
/2
"As CNN reported, 'People throughout Charlotte were seen Monday using many of the tactics employed in Chicago—including watching for raids, blowing warning whistles and carrying signs advising people of their rights.' Some businesses closed their doors to prevent CBP from targeting customers and employees;"
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Charlotte #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #solidarity #resistance
/1
Video footage showing ICE's masked thugs smashing the car window of a man in Charlotte and detaining him though he had proof of American citizenship and a valid ID.
#Trump #StephenMiller #Charlotte #NorthCarolina #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #deportations #ChristianNationalism
/10
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/us/video/trump-ice-charlotte-north-carolina-real-id-man-detained-vrtc
More than half of white Catholics voted for Trump three times. Until the US Catholic bishops acknowledge their own huge complicity in bringing us Donald Trump — since who has been leading those white Catholics all these years after all? — their statement about immigration will ring rather hollow for many of us, welcome as the words are.
Trump's vice-president Vance and his border czar Homan are, after all, Catholics.
The agenda of ultra-rich right-wing Catholics in the US has for years now been to make the Catholic church in the US an arm of the Republican party, with the bishops fully cooperating with this, and to attack and undermine Catholic social teaching and its preferential option for the poor.
Until the bishops face their complicity in what Trump is doing, many of us will listen to anything they say with muted attention.
