#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.
“Americans can expect that immediately upon President Trump’s return…, he will restore all of his prior policies, implement brand new crackdowns that will send shock waves to all the world’s criminal smugglers, & marshal every federal & state power necessary to institute the largest #deportation operation in American history,” said #Trump campaign spox Karoline Leavitt in a stmnt. She added that undocumented #immigrants “should not get comfortable because very soon they will be going home.”
(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.)
(In)…”the words of Rep #TroyNehls (R)…during the field trip: ‘I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a #Democrat & to help Joe #Biden’s approval rating.’ IOW, a deal that #Democrats can accept, even a…restrictionist #border policy, is a deal #HouseRepublicans are unwilling to contemplate. In order to keep the border issue alive in 2024, they’d rather blow up #Senate negotiations. They see this as a win…, bc it keeps #immigration & the general aura of crisis on the front pages.”
@wndlb you know people / media totally skipped over President Biden’s enormous accomplishment re the #UnitedStates’ joint effort w/ President #Xi / #PRC (#China) on #fentanyl.
#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.