Susan Demas and Amanda Moore survey Bovino's legacy of violence in Minnesota and conclude that it's all about the videos, all performative, for-show, all about "revel[ing] in the mayhem of targeting protesters."
They're playing to the hateful glee of their MAGA audience, as they play with real human lives.
#Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #violence
/8
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/bovinos-legacy-of-violence-in-minneapolis
"Got that? Complying with the Constitution’s foundational procedural protection is a 'non-starter.' More importantly, it is an admission that the current practice of ICE of entering homes without a judicial warrant violates the Constitution."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Constitution #FourthAmendment #warrants #MaskedThugs #violence
/2
“'In sum, the government’s proposed reading of the statute [i.e., the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996] would mean that, for purposes of immigration detention, the border is now everywhere,' U.S. Circuit Judge Dana Douglas, a Joe Biden appointee, wrote."
~ Adam Klasfeld
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #detention #deportations #warenhouses
/3
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/fifth-circuit-border-everywhere-detention-rtw
"One issue we’ve discussed again and again during the Trump years is the purported belief as a form of performative aggression. It’s something essential to the Trumpian/MAGA world. You believe things that are, in factual terms, obviously absurd. But they’re also convenient. They create permission structures for all sorts of things they already want to do."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #lies #disinformation
/4
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-are-the-masks-for-exactly
"To an important degree the absurdity of the professed belief is part of the attraction, especially since aggression is so deeply embedded in the professed belief. This issue comes up in a less extreme, though still similar, way in the various ways Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration try to justify ICE’s behavior."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #lies #disinformation
/5
"In an email, CBP commander Gregory Bovino praised the agent who shot a Chicago woman five times: 'In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!'”
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #violence
/6
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/this-is-what-an-out-of-control-doj
"The most inflammatory thing Chicago’s US Attorney’s office released yesterday [in the Marimar Martinez case] — precisely the thing they made a failing bid to suppress last week — were texts in which [Charles] Exum described that 'Everyone has been [supportive] including Chief [Greg] Bovino, Border Patrol Chief [Mike] Banks, Sec Noem, and El Jefe himself… according to Bovino.'”
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #violence
/7
@wdlindsy
You get more of what you celebrate.
Congratulating someone for shooting an unarmed unthreatening woman, gets you more of that
