Follow-up to the previous post about Drumpf's private army, the army that his "Big Beautiful Bill" which was passed by Republicans in Congress will give $175 billion to, which is more than the military budgets of most of our foreign allied countries.
Propublica does a good, in-depth report here on the dangers the American people are facing if Drumpf and his corrupt DHS led by a puppy-murdering psychopath and her corrupt "border czar" sidekick who takes $50k cash bribes in brown paper bags for contracting favors, escalate their MAGA war on our citizenry.
Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
"When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves. There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters. In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.
“He’s bleeding,” one caller said about a person he saw yanked from a car wash lot and beaten. “They dumped him into a white van. It doesn’t say ICE.”
One woman’s voice shook as she asked, “What kind of police go around without license plates?”
And then this from another: “Should we just run from them?”"
"What kind of police go around without license plates?"
Gee, I don't know. I imagine they would be the same kind of police who mask up like soldiers of fortune ready to go on a clandestine mission to seek out the enemies they were hired to eliminate. I am also pretty certain they would also be the same kind of police who refuse to provide identification when asked, or produce court warrants when breaking into homes and businesses, who are illegally arresting US citizens and illegally detaining them for days and weeks, and who are also routinely lying in US courts about the scope of their "policing" activities and the consequences of their overstepping their legal and constitutional authority during those activities.
These ICE street agents are essentially hired mob muscle. The mob boss's enforcers if you will. They are out there doing exactly what they were hired to do which is to terrify immigrant communities and commit human rights violations with impunity with protection from their mob boss DonOld Drumpf.
While they aren't there just yet, ICE, if left unchecked, has all the potential in the world to transform rapidly into this country's own version of the Stasi or the Sturmabteilung. That is not an exaggeration.
---TFG
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