"Suffering was the deterrent. Visibility was the feature. And all non-white people who could be easily othered as 'not real Americans' were the targets."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #deportations #fascism #cruelty
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"Long before Miller held power, he immersed himself in demographic panic, eugenics-era immigration theory, and white nationalist grievance dressed up as 'heritage.' Once inside government, those ideas became policy: the Muslim ban, the dismantling of asylum, mass detention, and family separation. These weren’t mistakes or overreaches. The cruelty was intentional."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #deportations #fascism #cruelty
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"Suffering was the deterrent. Visibility was the feature. And all non-white people who could be easily othered as 'not real Americans' were the targets."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #racism #immigrants #deportations #fascism #cruelty
/26
"A year ago, I never used to worry about attracting the attention of 'the authorities.' In fact, I never thought about 'the authorities' as a concept at all, let alone one to be afraid of. I always imagined something called 'the authorities' being a problem for people living in dictatorships, like Iran or Venezuela, not those living in western democracies."
~ Alexandra Hall Hall
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #fear
/27
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/a-year-of-living-dangerously-in-trumps
"Renee Good is dead because the Trump regime gave a gun, a badge, and a sense of impunity to the kind of people who want a gun, a badge, and impunity. Her murder was the obvious and intended outcome of a reign of fascist terror Donald Trump and his henchmen are imposing on the American people."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #murder #fascism #immunity
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"This is the central truth of the situation: They killed her as a means of imposing terror and control on the American people, and they will continue to behave similarly as long as they can get away with it." …
And the "lies [of the Trump regime] are so transparent that few outside the Trump regime and the most overt of its propagandists are peddling them. But many more news companies are privileging those lies."
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #murder #fascism #immunity #media
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"Weeks before an ICE agent shot Renee Good dead in Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security in Washington warned about the dangers of confronting suspects in vehicles, according to a November memo leaked to me.
'For safe & effective vehicle extractions, de-escalation is key,' cautioned an internal Customs and Border Patrol guidance, signed by the head of the agency’s compliance directorate."
~ Ken Klippenstein
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #murder #fascism #immunity
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