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The Immigration/Deportation Machine is Out of Control
And Trump is losing support fast
It’s getting hard to track all the terrible deportation stories out there as we watch an emerging police state manned by unknown men who assert they are completely outside of the law. They are unknown because they hide behind masks and quasi-military gear. And, contrary to what Trump claims, many of those being seized have no criminal records, not even traffic tickets.
Defining this as a police state is not an exaggeration. The ICE agents are acting exactly like Hitler’s Gestapo, his private army that existed to spread terror and violently quell any resistance. On top of all this, the Republicans in Congress just funded the immigration response to the tune of $170 billion, including $38 billion for ICE itself, making it by far the highest funded police agency, including the FBI.
As these agencies ignore the rulings of courts and increasingly hide their data about how many people they are arresting, resisting this is getting harder and harder daily, by intent. No accountability, not even any requirement for the agents to wear ID. If you’re not scared by this, you should be. Police states don’t represent one party, they answer only to dictators.
And this scary activity is scaring people in both parties, with Trump’s polling…
