#Trump & allies planning militarized #MassDeportations, detention #camps
As president, Trump sought to use #military planes & bases for #deportation. Now, he and his allies are talking about a new effort that current & fmr ofcls warn could be impractical & dangerous.
#Trump pledges that as #president he would immediately launch “the largest domestic #deportation operation in American history.” As a model, he points to an Eisenhower-era program known as “Operation Wetback,”[🤮] using a derogatory #slur for #Mexican#migrants. The operation used #military tactics to round up & remove migrant workers, sometimes transporting them in dangerous conditions that led to some deaths.
Fmr admin ofcls & policy experts said staging an even larger operation today would face a bottleneck in #detention space — a problem that #Trump adviser #StephenMiller & other allies have proposed addressing by building mass #deportation camps. [#ConcentrationCamps]
#Trump has made similar promises & has used inflammatory smears since his 2016 campaign. But he, his aides & allies say a 2nd turn in office would be more effective in operating the levers of the federal bureaucracy & less vulnerable to internal resistance. During his term, fmr ofcls said, Trump learned to install more ofcls at #DHS who would carry out his orders instead of trying to curb his impulses.
(But reality check: #MikeJohnson said he doesn’t want to pass #BorderLegislation because he doesn’t want the Biden admin to be able to take credit for it & because he wants to keep the issue alive for the 2024 #election.)
#SCOTUS sided w/ the #Biden admin on Mon & cleared the way for #border patrol agents to remove #RazorWire#Texas ofcls installed along a busy stretch of the southern border until the legality of the barriers is resolved in court.
4 conservatives — Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito, Neil #Gorsuch & Brett #Kavanaugh — noted their dissents w/o explanation.
The Senate on Thurs passed #legislation to keep the #federal govt open into March, kicking the measure to the House as #Congress continues its struggle to approve long-term spending #laws.
Thousands of #migrants subjected to the policy will be allowed to live & work in the #UnitedStates, at least temporarily. If they win #asylum, they could become #citizens.
Aside from Koch and Murdoch, who fund attacks on public health in hopes of evading taxation, there's a core group of Republican billionaire donors who simply enjoy needless human misery.