https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-8-2025
"Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C.,
yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14. On the
other side of the country, protesters near Los Angeles filmed officers from
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) throwing flash-bang grenades into a
crowd of protesters. The two images make a disturbing portrait of the United
States of America under the Donald J. Trump regime as Trump tries to use the
issue of immigration to establish a police state.
In January 2024, Trump pressured Republican lawmakers to kill a bipartisan
immigration measure that would have beefed up border security and funding
immigration courts because he wanted to campaign on the issue of immigration.
During that campaign, Trump made much of the high immigration numbers in the
United States after the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, when the booming
U.S. economy attracted migrants. He went so far as to claim that migrants were
eating people’s pets.
Many Trump supporters apparently believed officials in a Trump administration
would only deport violent criminals, although Trump’s team had made it clear in
his first term that they considered anyone who had broken immigration laws a
criminal. Crackdowns began as soon as Trump took office, sweeping in
individuals who had no criminal records in the U.S. and who were in the U.S.
legally. The administration worked to define those individuals as criminals and
insisted they had no right to the due process guaranteed by the U.S.
Constitution.
Anna Giaritelli of the
Washington Examiner reported that at a meeting in late
May, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who appears to be
leading the administration’s immigration efforts, “eviscerated” federal
immigration officials for numbers of deportations and renditions that, at
around 600 people per day, he considered far too low. “Stephen Miller wants
everybody arrested,” one of the officials at the meeting told Giaritelli. “'Why
aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?'” Miller said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
