"Daily deportation raids in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a few hundred people in sweeps began almost as soon as Trump took office."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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"Josh Campbell, Andy Rose, and Nick Valencia of CNN reported that the federal government has flooded the media with video and photos of agents in tactical gear, their vests bearing the words 'Police ICE' and 'Homeland Security' as they lead individuals in handcuffs. The journalists report that this is not an accident: agents were told to have their agency names clearly displayed for the press."
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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"'President Trump is, of course, a television producer,' CNN's Abby Phillip said last night, and his administration's immigration sweeps are 'made for TV.'
'It's a story he wants the entire American public to watch,' she added: 'ICE agents in cities near you, outfitted with military-style equipment, detaining migrants that the Trump administration labels as dangerous'."
~ Brian Stelter
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1738072600605080f606be7ae/raw
Remember how leading MAGA figures want televised executions? Two sides of the same coin, with the carefully orchestrated televised ICE show.
To whom does this appeal? Obviously, to the base, to people with an appetite for cruelty, who love to turn on their t.v. as they scarf down their cheese curls or hamburgers and watch some hapless human being who "deserves" punishment be ruthlessly punished.
Barbarism, pure and simple.
#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty
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