Tough to read but important reporting on the everyday, bureaucratic Trump deportation machine. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/mass-deportation-immigration/684871/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWv6mvMeoNr8aKfvBdHgGgpE
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@heidilifeldman We are now Nazi Germany in the 1930's.
“Most of Trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. And because it is targeting people who have spent an average of 16 years in the United States, trying, in many cases, to avoid public attention, rather than court it. That makes it difficult to fathom the full picture of what’s happening.”
“More than 70 percent of people in immigration custody have no criminal past. Although ICE has not released data on how many of them left children behind when they were arrested, the fact that an estimated 6 million kids in the United States have at least one parent without legal status suggests that this is the case for many. And detention centers for children have been packed since Trump took office. But none of this is easy to witness.”
“Most people detained by ICE are being housed in sprawling complexes in rural areas, where the land is cheap and the protests are few.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/mass-deportation-immigration/684871/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWhyaFJRXiLsJXUe0H8QlNiE
Yep. Trump's first term he wanted to open a concentration camp at NASA in Santa Clara County. So many protesters showed up they immediately canceled the plans but they moved the whole operation to a rural place where people wouldn't protest. We tried. It was too far to get enough folks and the media didn't show up.
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